Chichester Festival TheatreVisionary StagesSunday 3 Jul through Saturday 31 Dec 2022 For Event Details and Booking: Visionary Stages is streaming through 31 December 2022. This event is part of Digital Stages. Take a look at the trailer to find out some of the special guests like Sir Derek Jacobi, John Simm and more! Join Chichester Festival Theatre … Continue reading
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Interview: John Simm Once Contemplated Faking a Heart Attack and Tells About his Latest ‘Repellent’ Character in Cold Courage
The Daily TelegraphHelen Brown3 Sep 2020 John Simm as Arthur Fried in Britbox’s Cold Courage | Photo: Bernard Walsh As a teenager growing up in the small Lancashire town of Nelson, John Simm witnessed racist thuggery on a terrifying scale. “The level of fear and ignorance directed towards the local immigrants was just terrible. To … Continue reading
John Simm and Dervla Kirwan interviews | Macbeth at Chichester Festival Theatre
Whats on Stage – YouTube 24 Sep 2019 We sit down with the two stars of Chichester’s Macbeth – Dervla Kirwan and John Simm – to chat about starring in Paul Miller’s new revival at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Find out more: https://www.whatsonstage.com/chichester-theatre/news/macbeth-chichester-john-simm-full-casting_49645.html Continue reading
John Simm Interview – The Guardian
The Guardian Sam Wollaston 27 Sep 2019 John Simm: ‘I don’t feel anything when I film any more’ From his Life on Mars cop to Crime and Punishment’s Raskolnikov, Simm does a fine line in the troubled and conflicted. Next up? Macbeth John Simm doesn’t do any of that superstition nonsense. It’s not the Scottish … Continue reading
John Simm and Dervla Kirwan head the cast of Macbeth
Chichester Festival Theatre 21 Sep- 26 Oct Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings Book Tickets for Macbeth (Priority booking from 24 Feb, General booking from 2 March) Much celebrated for his forthright bravery, Macbeth is a state hero. After the bloody defeat of a rebel army, he encounters a trio of strangers who predict … Continue reading
Meet John Simm: London Comic Con – Sat 2nd March 2019
Showmasters Presents London Comic Con Spring National Hall Olympia London 2-3 March 2019 We are delighted to announce that JOHN SIMM will be at #LCCSpring on Sat 2nd March 2019! John Simm is well known for his performances in #DoctorWho , #LifeonMars, #Strangers, @ITV‘s #Collateral and @BBC‘s #Trauma. Tickets are available to book now: https://t.co/SPvElzg7vk … Continue reading
Philip Glenister and John Simm In Conversation – Orange Tree Theatre
Orange Tree Theatre Philip Glenister and John Simm In Conversation BOOK NOW for Sun 16th Sep 2018 19:00 Philip Glenister and John Simm are reunited following the hugely popular TV series Life on Mars, Mad Dogs, Prey and State of Play for an exclusive In Conversation at the Orange Tree. With just half of the OT’s income coming from ticket sales, the … Continue reading
John Simm among 24 Influential Ambassadors supporting Theatres Trust
Theatres Trust Ambassadors 27 Jun 2018 “As a young actor attending College in Blackpool, I appeared in three productions at ‘The Blackpool Grand Theatre’, It was the first theatre stage I ever appeared on, and because of that wonderful old place I have been in love with theatre ever since. The Theatres Trust supports The … Continue reading
John Simm has joined the extraordinary company of Pinter at the Pinter
Pinter at the Pinter Party Time/Celebration 20 December – 26 January 2019 The Jamie Lloyd Company presents an extraordinary season of Harold Pinter’s one-act plays on the tenth anniversary of the Nobel Prize winner’s death, performed in the theatre that bears his name. Find out in this casting announcement video why John Simm and his … Continue reading
Radio Interview: John Simm joins Miranda Sawyer to discuss the use of music in his work
BBC Radio 6 Music Sound and Vision Miranda Sawyer 29 April 2018 John Simm joins Miranda Sawyer to discuss the use of music in his work. From Human Traffic to Life On Mars to Doctor Who, John Simm is one of the UK’s finest actors. Play radio interview (00:55:55): Music Played The Stone … Continue reading
Edith Bowman welcomes John Simm to Soundtracking
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman Edith Bowman 20 Apr 2018 In a unique weekly podcast, Edith Bowman sits down with a variety of film directors, actors, producers and composers to talk about the music that inspired them and how they use music in their films, from their current release to key moments in their career. The … Continue reading
BourbonUniverse: Q&A with John Simm – Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass
Bourbon Universe Ellie 21 June 2016 On the 21st June 2016, I had the opportunity to be present at a Q&A with John Simm at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the heart of London’s West End. John Simm is best known for is roles in TV Shows such as Life on Mars and Doctor Who … Continue reading
John Simm Masterclass
Masterclass Tuesday 21st June 2:30-4:00pm Theatre Royal Haymarket For our third Masterclass in June, come on down and see us for an opportunity to put your questions to award winning actor John Simm! About John John Simm’s prolific career encompasses extensive theatre, film & television credits. His theatre work includes Pinter’s The Homecoming and The Hothouse at … Continue reading
Radio Interview: John Simm in the BBC Radio 6 Studio
BBC Radio 6 Music with Shaun Keaveny 26 Nov 2015 John Simm joins Shaun Keaveny to chat about his new play ‘The Homecoming’. Play radio interview (00:10:09): Continue reading
Radio Interview: John Simm, Jamie Lloyd and Michael Billington on BBC Radio 4 Front Row
BBC Radio 4 Front Row with John Wilson 25 Nov 2015 Harold Pinter’s great drama of familial power struggles, ‘The Homecoming’ was first staged half a century ago. As a new production opens, John Wilson talks to John Simm, who plays Lennie, its director, Jamie Lloyd, and Pinter’s biographer, Michael Billington, who, as well as … Continue reading
The Homecoming with John Simm: Trailers & Rehearsal Photos
The Jamie Lloyd Company The Homecoming Trafalgar Studios 14 Nov 2015 – 13 Feb 2016 Following the extraordinary success of two seasons at Trafalgar Studios, director Jamie Lloyd and The Jamie Lloyd Company return with Harold Pinter’s enigmatic masterpiece, The Homecoming, in the 50th anniversary year of the multi award-winning modern classic. Book Tickets Trailer: … Continue reading
John Simm Backstage for Matt Humphrey Book
The Guardian Theatre 18 Nov 2015 Backstage dramas: theatre stars wait in the wings – in pictures Robert Lindsay, John Simm, Susannah Fielding and others get ready to make a great entrance in these exclusive photographs by Matt Humphrey whose company Curtain Call is producing a book of backstage images and interviews. The book will … Continue reading
John Simm reunites with Jamie Lloyd for 50th Anniversary of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming
The Jamie Lloyd Company Trafalgar Studios The Homecoming 14 November 2015 – 13 February 2016 Book Tickets Now Following the extraordinary success of two seasons at Trafalgar Studios, director Jamie Lloyd and The Jamie Lloyd Company return with Harold Pinter’s enigmatic masterpiece, The Homecoming, in the 50th anniversary year of the multi award-winning modern classic. … Continue reading
John Simm, Mark Gatiss and cast discuss their upcoming roles in Three Days in the Country
The Telegraph Chris Bennion 13 July 2015 Turgenev’s Three Days in the Country, starring Simm and Gatiss, opens on the Lyttleton stage at the National Theatre London on 28th July (Previews from 21 July). Here John Simm (Olivier-award winner [sic] and star of Doctor Who and Life on Mars) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, The League of Gentlemen) … Continue reading
John Simm and Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch each tell HIS STORY
The Guardian Katie Forster 31 May 2015 Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch and actor John Simm were each other’s heroes before they met. Now they enjoy a creative – and boozy – friendship HIS STORY Ian McCulloch, 56, musician I first met John after a Bunnymen gig in Kilburn in 1997. I’d seen him … Continue reading
John Simm joins the cast for National Theatre’s production of Three Days in the Country
National Theatre Three Days in the Country by Patrick Marber, after Turgenev 21 Jul 2015 – 21 Oct 2015 Dates and Buy Tickets Summer love. Russia. A beautiful country estate. The mid-nineteenth century. A handsome new tutor brings reckless, romantic desire to an eccentric household. Over three days one summer the young and the old will … Continue reading
Radio Interview: John Simm joins Shaun Keaveny
BBC Radio 6 Music Shaun Keaveny 8 April 2015 John Simm chats with Shaun Keaveny about his new ITV drama ‘Code of a Killer’, plus his upcoming Glastonbury gig with his band Magic Alex and what he’s working on next in 2015… (spoiler hint: Three Days in the Country | National Theatre) Play Radio Interview (00:11:44): … Continue reading
Full Cast Announced For Harold Pinter’s ‘The Hothouse’
The Hollywood News 9 Apr 2013 Jazmine Sky Bradley The Hothouse is part of an exciting season of work for Trafalgar Transformed, a joint initiative between director Jamie Lloyd (Donmar’s Passion, Broadway’s Cyrano de Bergerac, the National Theatre’s She Stoops to Conquer, Royal Court’s The Pride) and Howard Pinter. It comes hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed and sold … Continue reading