Following sell-out seasons in 2011/12 and critical and audience acclaim, Simon Callow returns in this much-lauded production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, playing at the Arts Theatre for a strictly limited ...

Following sell-out seasons in 2011/12 and critical and audience acclaim, Simon Callow returns in this much-lauded production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, playing at the Arts Theatre for a strictly limited ...

CHARLES DICKENS AND THE GREAT THEATRE OF THE WORLD, by Simon Callow. Vintage, 384 pp., $16 paper. In 1831, the 19-year-old Charles Dickens -- having long dreamed of a career onstage -- secured an ...

That perennial favorite, A Christmas Carol, forms the centerpiece of Dickens' Christmas: A Victorian Celebration by Simon Callow, whose one-man Dickens show appeared in the West End and on Broadway.

One story. Two British boys. Two reactions. Tickets: $30-$100; 713-228-6737, houstongrandopera.org. Callow's aversion to Dickens didn't last. Now an acclaimed actor, he has portrayed the British ...

The formidable British actor Simon Callow single-handedly conjures up the rough and tumble of Victorian London in this well-crafted exploration of Charles Dickens' turbulent life and times, not to ...

Simon Callow will return to the West End this autumn for a limited run of Peter Ackroyd's The Mystery of Charles Dickens. Following his turn as William Shakespeare in Being Shakespeare at Trafalgar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. The author of a new biography of novelist Charles Dickens, ...

London – Anyone who's read or watched an adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" knows how Scrooge is changed through the events in Charles Dickens' classic story. But what's less well-known is how the book ...

There are probably more theories than facts about Shakespeare’s life. Where do you stand on this? We have many, many facts about Shakespeare’s life, contained in Schoenbaum’s magisterial Shakespeare: ...

Simon Callow, 69, is one of Britain’s best-loved actors, famous for his role in Four Weddings And A Funeral and his stage and screen portrayals of Charles Dickens. He lives in North London with his ...

Simon Callow will return to the West End this Christmas to star in a one-man production of A Christmas Carol at the Arts Theatre. Directed by Tom Cairns, the re-imagining of Charles Dickens' festive ...