Simon Russell Beale
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Terence Davies, who died last Saturday, was a visionary British director, who brought passion and eccentricity to every film. Actors including Jennifer Ehle, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale and Peter Mullan recall his unique style and sensitivity
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An all-star cast arrived in Westminster on Monday with a potted Julius Caesar, partly in hopes of elevating public discourse. It’s good to have a dream …
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Simon Russell Beale is doubly commanding as Ibsen’s charismatic banker in a problem-raising revival, while a new anti-vax satire needs more than a shot of Helen Hunt’s star power
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Three actors from The Lehman Trilogy go head to head, the musical Six picks up eight nominations and the production MJ – about Michael Jackson – is also recognised
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It’s time for the Royal Shakespeare Company to be led by an actor
Michael BillingtonGregory Doran has achieved much at the RSC and directed some fine productions. Let’s have an actor in charge next: how about Adjoa Andoh or Simon Russell Beale?
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3 out of 5 stars.The Oscar-winner gives a cool, calm centre to this tightly-buttoned drama about Chicago gangsters rooting out a mole
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Simon Russell Beale is Bach to his fingertips in Nina Raine’s intermittently brilliant new play
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To mark the Stratford playwright’s birthday on 23 April, here are 23 shots from his plays, with a starry lineup including Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, David Harewood and Toby JonesGallery
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The Almeida and Big House celebrate connection and isolation, while Hytner’s A Christmas Carol delivers simple pleasures
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The star speaks of his panic about the uncertainty of reopening and his sorrow for struggling young actors
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The Royal Shakespeare Company has vowed to drill the Bard’s rhythms into its actors – but our alienation from his language runs deeper
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5 out of 5 stars.Simon Russell Beale, Mark Gatiss and Catherine Tate were on hilarious form in this new version of the state-of-the-nation comedy
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Sculptor Rachel Whiteread becomes a dame and Tunnock’s teacake creator is knighted
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As the artistic director prepares to leave the Donmar Warehouse, we look back over her reign – from City of Angels to the Shakespeare TrilogyGallery
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Lynn Nottage brilliantly dramatises industrial unrest in small-town America in the year’s most powerful play
Ibsen’s Ghosts: a resounding flop that still returns to haunt us