Topic: Simon Russell Beale

William Shakespeare was probably a Catholic, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury in an exploration of spirituality and secularism in the...
Management/production company Anonymous Content is about to make a major play in the talent game. I'm hearing that Doug Wald is leaving his...

2 CAA Talent Agents Announce Their Exits

CAA is about to have its retreat in Ojai this weekend. And there are some personnel moves being made ahead of it. Motion picture talent agents Tony...

Fun and games in Deathtrap

The comedy thriller is not exactly staple West End fare these days but Matthew Warchus's enjoyable revival of Ira Levin's 1978 play Deathtrap suggests that the genre still has legs. Clifford calls on Sidney and his put-upon wife Myra at ...

Only as old as you feel

Inspired casting makes for a joyfully cynical take on the Bard's comedy Much Ado About Nothing Olivier Theatre, London SE1 The morning before I saw Nicholas Hytner's joyful production of Shakespeare's comedy I happened to be interviewing Felicity Kendal ...

The role to die for

Oscar Wilde famously said that " And, while any consideration of the great Hamlets is also a celebration of the art of acting itself, I hope to shed some light on the way the role has combined self-revelation with a response to the ...

Bickering pair in A Slight Ache

Which is not to say this short, early piece by Harold Pinter takes undue liberties, merely that the felicitous presence of Clare Higgins and Simon Russell Beale as a long-married, long-bickering couple, helps it achieve heights it would otherwise struggle to scale ...

The National's treasure

If you happen to have seen the National's current production of Much Ado About Nothing, then you cannot fail to have been utterly charmed by Simon Russell Beale's Benedick. Oh, I fell completely in love with Benedick,' says Russell Beale ...

Middle-aged lovers make much the biggest waves

Zoe Wanamaker and Simon Russell Beale make a far bigger and better splash in Nicholas Hytner's alluring production of Much Ado About Nothing than I dared hope. As Shakespeare's young antagonists, Beatrice and Benedick, whose witty war of words masks ...

Simon has grail of a time in Pythonland

The current invasion of the West End by the mega-musicals is one thing, but it is something else entirely when one of the stalwarts of serious subsidised theatre defects. Simon Russell Beale, who has already wowed Broadway audiences in this role, makes ...