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HISTORICAL FACTS: Simon callow - Caught on Camera

Simon Callow leads wild political fantasy The Man With The Plan as film hits the road across the UK

A new film reimagining William Beveridge’s battle against Britain’s “Five Giants” is touring the UK — complete with dancing magpies, media sheep and Miriam Margolyes as the voice of Squalor.

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‘Melancholy magic’: how Judi Dench and a host of stars came under the spell of the greatest comedy in history

The Twelfth Night Reunion gathers some of the grandest names in British theatre, including Simon Callow and Stephen Fry, to explain why Shakespeare’s play continues to bewitch audiences

The Guardian - UK

‘She spread love and naughtiness’: Simon Callow on directing Pauline Collins in Shirley Valentine

Her natural performance in Willy Russell’s masterpiece seemed effortless but Collins found it hugely challenging – and still made every day a party

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Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer

An exhibition explores the authors’ love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works

The Guardian - UK

Amy Sherman-Palladino’s lush ballet drama Étoile needs some room to breathe

3/5 This new series from the makers of ‘Gilmore Girls’ and ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’, which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Luke Kirby, rewards patience – but will patience be forthcoming?

The Independent UK

Simon Callow says he has ‘never been to a rock concert’ ahead of rock star role

The 75-year old is set to portray a washed up rock star in the comedy horror Murder Ballads: How To Make It In Rock ‘N’ Roll.

Evening Standard

Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny

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‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’ – the inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral

The low-budget romcom about Britain’s upper middle classes launched the careers of its writer Richard Curtis and Grant. Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator’

The Guardian - UK

30Th Anniversary Of 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' Cast Update

Discover the enduring legacy of Four Weddings and a Funeral, a beloved classic that continues to captivate audiences 30 years later.

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‘I loved every single word’: tributes to the blistering brilliance of Edward Bond

Marianne Faithfull, Simon Callow, Tanya Moodie, Richard McCabe and Sean Holmes remember working with the remarkable British playwright who died on Sunday

The Guardian - UK

Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

London Tide at the National Theatre is the latest in a flood of Dickensian adaptations. Few have captured the novelist’s surreal imagination – are solo shows the most successful?

The Guardian - UK

Dodger review – this hilarious Dickens prequel is an utter treat

Nicola Coughlan! Lennie Rush! Paul Whitehouse! This festive special of the Christopher Eccleston-fronted show is a supremely funny, star-packed delight

The Guardian - UK

EXCLUSIVE: Dodger star Billy Jenkins: ‘The festive special is life and death stuff!’

Dodger — the comic caper returns for a Christmas instalment with a royal flavour.

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Search for Liz Truss actor is on as ex-PM gathers new support

Will Gillian Anderson play Truss in a film?

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‘Delicate, dangerous, anarchic’: Daniel Craig, Michael Mann, Matthew Macfadyen and more remember Michael Gambon

He wasn’t just a magnificent actor – he was also a raconteur, mentor, joker, engineer and pilot. Friends including Tom Hollander, Penelope Wilton, Simon Callow, Nicholas Hytner, Matthew Warchus and Rupert Goold pay tribute to the star

The Guardian - UK

Surprised by Oxford review – faith-based student romance offers glazed-over unreality

Adapted from Carolyn Weber’s memoir of the same name, Ryan Whitaker’s drama suggests that finding love and God when you least expect it is a deeply bland affair

The Independent UK

Actor Simon Callow criticises use of trigger warnings in theatre

The 74-year-old said ‘there is a fundamental failure to grasp what the theatre is’.

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Like Water for Chocolate, Heart and more

Our roundup of the drama to enjoy at home in July includes a glorious adaptation of the Laura Esquivel novel and Saoirse Ronan in The Tragedy of Macbeth

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Evening Standard

Wimbledon staff furious over £20 pasta for lunch

Since last year’s tournament, prices on the staff menu have risen

The Guardian - UK

Julian Sands in A Room With a View: the soulful heart of a brilliantly romantic film

Sands’ performance in the EM Forster adaptation gave a focus to dreamily tragic teenagers who aspired to a more meaningful existence

The Guardian - UK

Simon Callow: ‘Coming out was my biggest act of activism’

The actor, 74, on clarity, claustrophobia and CBE catastrophes

The Guardian - UK

‘My eyes filled with tears, my voice shook’: Simon Callow on coming face to face with Shakespeare’s First Folio

As the Swan of Avon celebrates his birthday on Sunday, the actor pays tribute to a ‘miraculous’ book that rescued plays such as The Tempest and Macbeth from oblivion

Daily Mirror

GMB's Adil Ray forced to apologise after getting guest's name wrong in awkward blunder

Good Morning Britain host Adil Ray was forced to apologise live on air today after calling Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey another guest's name in an awkward blunder

The Guardian - UK

Patti Love obituary

Actor best known for her stage work and acclaimed for her portrayal of Mary Barnes in the title role of David Edgar’s 1978 play

The Guardian - UK

How Simon Callow met Sebastian Fox: ‘I thought, gosh, he’s very attractive from behind’

Actor Callow, 73 and Fox, 40, who works in the tech industry, were introduced by a mutual friend at a concert. They married in 2016 and live together in London

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