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John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie review – a Beatles bromance

An intelligent, diligently researched look at the intense bond between Lennon and McCartney

The Guardian - UK

Twelfth Night at Orange Tree Theatre review: subtly radical, and impressively nuanced

4/5 Tom Littler’s 1940s staging of Shakespeare’s comedy might seem staid on the surface, but there’s a lot going on underneath

Evening Standard

Twelfth Night review – a classy, musical and seasonal feast. Play on

With its philosopher-fool character seated at a piano and central to the action, this sympathetically staged 1940s-set production is something of a revelation

The Guardian - UK

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‘A 70-year-old skipping about pretending to be 20’: the new era of age-blind casting

Though Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are things finally changing?

The Guardian - UK

‘My first play was terrible!’ Alan Ayckbourn on his dazzling career – and writing his 90th play

As he hits an extraordinary landmark, the playwright relives his first drama, which made him £30, and recalls bouncing back from the stroke that left him desolate and devoid of ideas

The Guardian - UK

Jane Asher reveals how she ‘made it through’ Paul McCartney relationship during Beatles success

‘My life was so publicised,’ the actress said

The Independent UK

Jane Asher: ‘Would I do another nude scene? Never say never!’

The actor on night terrors, Brideshead Revisited, nearly becoming a doctor and Starbucks in Cobham

The Guardian - UK

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A Family Affair review – wellness-retreat comedy goes lowest common denominator

Actors as gifted as Jane Asher and Joe Wilkinson can’t do much with jokes about a failing guest house 40 years past their use-by date

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Jane Asher

What will you ask the brilliant actor, author, cake decorator and star of new film A Family Affair?

The Guardian - UK

‘You could beat someone to death with that!’ Great theatre wigs – and their miraculous creators

Few things in theatre are more transformative than a wig. But who makes them? Can they really be worth thousands? And what looks best on a beheaded tyrant? We meet the hairpiece heroes and their yeti-like creations

The Guardian - UK

Paul McCartney's tribute to former love who broke up with him live on TV

Sir Paul McCartney has paid a touching tribute to his former fiancée with an exhibition dedicated to her at the National Portrait Gallary which he and his family paid a secret visit to

Daily Mirror

Paul McCartney: Photographs 1963-64 review – watching the world change, almost overnight

Eyes of the Storm, which collects McCartney’s pictures taken as the Beatles’ fame went stratospheric, record a pivotal moment in pop culture

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Blues for An Alabama Sky, Macbeth and more

Our roundup of drama to enjoy at home includes the National Theatre’s Pearl Cleage revival and David Tennant taking on the Scottish king for the first time

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Operation Mincemeat; 4000 Miles; The Circle – review

SplitLip honour as well as spoof with their all-conquering espionage musical. Plus, Eileen Atkins at her most subtle, and a new twist on Somerset Maugham

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The Circle review – love, tears and tender truths when Jane Asher comes to call

Strong emotions rule in a candid and well-judged Somerset Maugham comedy twisting romantic fates across generations of squabbling society

Liverpool Echo

Woman who broke off engagement to Paul McCartney live on TV

The Beatles star was said to have "fell like a ton of bricks" for Jane Asher

The Guardian - UK

‘Diana Dors screamed about George Best while rubbing herself against a young man’: how we made Deep End

‘A friend,’ recalls director Jerzy Skolimowski, ‘told me a story about a diamond that was lost for ever after being dropped in snow. I thought: “But you could grab the snow, melt it and get it back.” It seemed a great idea for a film’

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Kris Marshall — things you didn't know about the TV star

He's well known for his role as DI Humphrey Goodman in Death in Paradise and Beyond Paradise, but what else is there to know about Kris Marshall?

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Liverpool Echo

Night Paul McCartney was 'dumped' on live TV

Paul 'fell like a ton of bricks' for Jane Asher, but the relationship was not to last

The Guardian - UK

How will Neighbours end: with a dream, a reunion – or revenge on the suits who axed it?

After 37 sensational years, the No 1 Aussie export is expiring. But how do you conclude a soap? Can we expect a Kylie and Jason spinoff, a Holby City-style masterclass – or a furious Brookside broadside?

Daily Mirror

Paul McCartney's love life - dumped on live TV, a bitter divorce and heartbreak

Paul McCartney has had a string of women since he soared to fame with The Beatles. He's been married three times, been rumoured to have been unfaithful and lost his wife of 30 years to cancer

Daily Mirror

Paul McCartney at 80: How mum's death when he was 14 inspired some of his greatest work

Paul McCartney is still going strong, playing Glastonbury next Saturday as the oldest-ever headliner, a week after he turns 80. When he was 14, his mum died and the tragedy shaped his career

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