Charlie Rose with Dan Rather; Manning Marable; Simon Callow (February 6, 1996)
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Matthew Kelly will join Sean Mathias' partially recast revival of Waiting for Godot, when it returns in the new year to the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket, where it is now confirmed to reopen on 21 January 2010 for a limited 11-week season. Ke...
LGBT History Month UK (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation. Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites. Enjoy! Owt on’t’telly? A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV. Cast Offs on Channel...
the further adventures of boz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Over recent days several important family phone calls have happened that often take place at this time of year. Mum phoned me and just HAPPENED to mention there is a Simon Callow thing that looks quite good. A day later I phoned mum to ask IF she was coming down to London around her birthday in December, could she CONFIRM the date. Mum phoned back to CONFIRM what date she would be coming up to town...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
RIVERSIDE Studios is presenting Simon Callow in Dr. Marigold and Mr. Chops , two rarely seen, one-man plays by Charles Dickens – from December 12, 2009 to January 31, 2010. A Christmas treat for children and adults alike, Dr. Marigold and Mr. Chops haven’t been seen in London for over 150 years, yet remain as imaginative and compelling as they were in the Dickensian era. Dickens was renowned...
Index on Censorship (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Matthew Parris, one of Britain’s most renowned newspaper columnists, has been appointed a trustee of Index on Censorship, the UK’s leading organisation promoting freedom of expression. And, in an exciting week for free speech in the UK, musical innovator Brian Eno has become an Index on Censorship patron. Times journalist Parris, who won the Orwell Prize [...]
LGBT History Month UK (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation. Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites. Enjoy! Owt on’t’telly? A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV. 3D week on Channel 4....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Simon Callow on the great impresario Sergey Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes In the theatre, there is a distinction to be made between an impresario and a producer. Sergey Diaghilev was both. He produced the work – that is to say, he raised the money, hired the artists and the craftsmen and ensured that the show opened on time – and he did all this superbly. But what has made him legendary...
Harold Pinter Archive Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Listen to David Hare, Simon Callow and Colin Chambers talking about Peggy Ramsay on this National Theatre podcast. I especially like David Hare's recital of a typically forthright letter from Peggy. (From the Harold Pinter Archive blog: Cataloguing the legacy of the great playwright)
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
British character actor whose role in Waiting for Godot led to more than 50 years on stage, television and film Timothy Bateson, who has died aged 83, was a character actor of boundless versatility and great warmth of personality who will always be remembered for playing Lucky in the controversial British premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Arts Theatre, London, in 1955. The production,...
bookeywookey (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)? Memoirs can be wonderful. To hear the writing voice of someone you know for something else, acting or politics, and to see what it is they choose to show of themselves can be very revealing. Alec Guiness has written a couple of wonderful volumes about himself, as has writer...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Simon Callow, who previously had a big stage hit playing Charles Dickens, will now perform a double bill of two rarely seen one-man plays by the Victorian novelist - Dr Marigold and Mr Chops - which will run from 12 December 2009 to 31 January 2010 a...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Simon Callow, who previously had a big stage hit playing Charles Dickens, will now perform a double bill of two rarely seen one-man plays by the Victorian novelist - Dr Marigold and Mr Chops - which will run from 12 December 2009 to 31 January 2010 a...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Mark Field highlights plight of Cecil Court, where business-rate rises are driving shops 'to the edge' The "dire situation" for the booksellers of London's Cecil Court will be highlighted today by local MP Mark Field as he calls on the government to defer the business rate rises he fears could force them out of business. Cecil Court, a 17th-century sidestreet off Charing Cross Road, is home...
Loving True Blood in Dallas (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Cast Announced for Power's Ice By Mansha Daswani Published: October 22, 2009 LONDON: Richard Roxburgh, Frances O'Connor, Stephen Moyer and Sam Neill are among the cast of Power's new disaster epic Ice, based on the book by James Follett and directed by Nick Copus. The cast lineup announced today includes Richard Roxburgh (Stealth, Van Helsing, The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman, Moulin Rouge), Frances...
Obscene Desserts (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Discovered, today, in The Guardian : the gratingly gauche opening of Will Self's article on Roald Dahl (on the occasion of the release of Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox ): A few months ago, I was coming out of the lavatory at Maison Bertaud, a fusty old patisserie in Soho, when I saw the familiar full-moon face of Simon Callow – actor, playwright, director, indeed all round homme de théâtre...
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