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"Take honour from me and my life is done".

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Simon Pegg: 'Hollywood is like being in a waxworks come to life'

Simon Pegg tells James Mottram about the tribulations of adapting to life as the toast of Los Angeles

The history cycle will star Ben Whishaw

Heads Up: Shakespeare's History Plays

Once more unto the Beeb ... the Bard's back on the box

Clémence Poésy - Our new favourite mademoiselle

Actress, musician and model Clémence Poésy is now to star opposite Michael Caine. Gerard Gilbert meets the rising vedette

Bingo, Young Vic, London

I once received a very nice card from an actor who said that my trashing of his performance had made him laugh out loud.

X-Men First Class (12A)

Starring: James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, Michael Fassbender

Summer blockbusters: Sizzling cinema

Ben Walsh previews the best reasons to swap the sunscreen for the big screen this summer

The Merchant of Venice, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Shylock lives it up in Las Vegas

Ed Byrne: Crowd Pleaser, Dome, Brighton

Perhaps it is the boyish face and youthful dexterity of the 39-year-old Irish comedian, but when people talk about Ed Byrne they tend to do so in terms of a school report card. "He showed a lot of promise", suggests a friend just after I had decided in my head that, had he been graded by my old school, he would have been awarded an A for effort and a B minus for attainment.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: When my time comes, I want to be allowed help to die

If I love my family, I should set them free. Why should I consume so much of their short time on earth – have them share with me my most wretched days?

'Star Trek' actor backs the right to choose assisted suicide

The actor Sir Patrick Stewart has declared his wish to be allowed an assisted death, and has become a patron of Dignity in Dying, the group campaigning for a change in the law on assisted suicide.

Rupert discovers there's Goold in the bard with new touring production of A Midsummer Night's Dream

A new touring production of A Midsummer Night's Dream set in a film studio quotes Popeye's "Spinach Song", a snippet of Bellini's "Casta Diva" and The Clovers' "Love Potion No 9".

Patrick Stewart rues crisis on Broadway

Broadway is being crippled by an attendance crisis that is forcing many productions to close early, according to the actor Sir Patrick Stewart.

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