Rehearsals for the play's debut on the London stage, for inclusion in Sarah Bernhardt's London season, began in 1892, but were halted when the Lord Chamberlain's licensor of plays banned Salomé on the basis that it was illegal to depict Biblical characters on the stage.
Al Pacino said in an interview that a new production of the play where he will star as King Herod is to open in London's West End in 2016 [REF].