Stephen Mangan
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The actor and artist recreate an old photo and talk about how growing up in the shadow of grief brought them closer
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Christmas fashion, food and quizzes – the best photographs commissioned by the Observer in December 2021Gallery
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The actor, who is playing Scrooge on stage, is a fan of Christmas quizzes. But there’s one question he can’t answer: why are cracker jokes so bad?
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The actor is finding it ‘worryingly easy’ to channel his inner Scrooge for A Christmas Carol. He and director Matthew Warchus talk about faith, family entertainment and festive mayhem
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The Green Wing and Episodes star talks about making the leap from acting to writing a children’s book about bereavement, and grieving for Helen McCrory and Paul Ritter
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Our series on films about theatre continues with a boozy, darkly funny comedy that captures the event’s pick’n’mix quality
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A stirring Faustian tale put actors under the moral spotlight; a Joe Egg revival is brave but bleak, and The Man in the White Suit fades fast
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3 out of 5 stars.With fart jokes and skiffle songs, this Sean Foley adaptation ditches the innocence of the 1950s capitalist comedy, but has plenty of drive
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The TV star on ‘putting himself out there’, voicing a horse and being in a power couple with Joan Bakewell
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The actor and the shadow foreign secretary talk Brexit, Blair and performance anxiety
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4 out of 5 stars.Mangan stars in a remake of Lisa Kudrow’s original and manages the rarest of TV feats: a UK adaptation that’s every bit as good as the US original
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Abi Morgan’s new divorce drama is a delightful family affair, The Terror is tremendous, and Westworld is back on track
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As Maxine Peake takes the mic to play a club comic in Funny Cow, here are five movies that capture the lacerating, soul-baring world of live comedy
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4 out of 5 stars.Harold Pinter’s ‘ravings’ make perfect sense 60 years on in his seaside dreamscape, and one woman brings vivid life to 1992’s LA riots
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4 out of 5 stars.Toby Jones, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Mangan and Pearl Mackie do rich justice to the playwright’s strange and captivating psychodrama
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A star-studded new West End production of Harold Pinter’s classic play, directed by Ian Rickson, is scheduled for 2018
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3 out of 5 stars.