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LGBT+ History Month: Top photographs from The Independent archive

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The Independent UK

Harry and Meghan make their stage debuts as gruesome puppets for Spitting Image

A new show has opened at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre featuring the Duke and Duchess and a host of other famous faces pictured below

Wales Online

Sir Ian McKellen says intimacy coordinators can ruin ‘purity’ of theatre

The stage veteran discussed the theatre industry’s many changes, some of which were ‘not always for the better’

The Independent UK

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Pub owned by Lord of the Rings actor Sir Ian McKellen loses two stars for poor hygiene

The Grapes in Limehouse, east London, which is part-owned by Sir Ian McKellen, was criticised in a food hygiene report for having out-of-date food, a dodgy fridge and dirty shelving

Daily Mirror

Why I live in Poplar: designer Lola Lely on life in her ‘diverse, community-focused’ corner of east London

After moving three times in a year, the artist and maker had all but given up on feeling settled. Here’s why Poplar proved to be the answer

Evening Standard

Marvel, Netflix and Hollywood stars that are actually from Greater Manchester

Many famous faces hail from the region

Manchester Evening News

Mother Goose starring Ian McKellen and John Bishop coming to Bristol Hippodrome

The show has already been awarded five stars by the critics

Bristol Post

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Sir Ian McKellen and John Bishop bring hit panto Mother Goose to Salford for Easter

The starry panto has wowed audiences in London this Christmas - it will head to The Lowry for an Easter treat

Manchester Evening News

John Bishop and Sir Ian McKellen are heading to Cardiff with Mother Goose

Stand-up comic John Bishop and veteran actor Sir Ian McKellen will be in Cardiff this spring in Mother Goose

Wales Online

Film Stars Call for Release of Jailed Iranian Actor Alidoosti

Hundreds of high-profile figures from the global cinema industry called Wednesday for Iran to release actor Taraneh Alidoosti, who was jailed over her support for the country's three-month-old protest movement. Actors Emma Thompson, Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet and Ian McKellen and directors Ken Loach and Mike Leigh were among a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Biggest celebrities starring in pantos across UK this year - with some surprising names

Oh yes we did! As Christmas draws closer and Pantomime season is in full swing, we have put together a long list of the shows starring some of the nations favourite celebrities, from West End regulars to Strictly stars, find them all here!

Daily Mirror

Look who’s here! Sir Ian McKellen and John Bishop’s panto gets star support

Sir Ian McKellen and John Bishop star in Mother Goose at Duke Of York’s Theatre

Evening Standard

Mother Goose at Duke of York’s Theatre review: Ian McKellen makes a triumphant return to panto

This gleeful, willfully slapdash affair moves to the West End this Thursday

Evening Standard

Mother Goose review – zany Ian McKellen rules over a fluffy affair

Panto finds dame and co-star John Bishop in need of a boost and better jokes, though song and dance performers give it unruly energy

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¡Showmanism! review – astonishing lip-sync solo raises spirits

Dickie Beau offers a merry miscellany, featuring stories from Ian McKellen and Fiona Shaw, in a meditation on theatre that is closer to possession than parody

The Guardian - UK

Watch out for snowball-firing robots! 25 of the best UK stage shows this Christmas

Ian McKellen in Mother Goose, Robin Hood as a rock’n’roll panto, a circus spin on The Little Prince and glitter galore … it’s our selection box of festive theatre

The Guardian - UK

‘This isn’t a clickbait story of a white family with a black kid’: Jimmy Akingbola on growing up in foster care

The Bel-Air star spent 14 years with foster parents after his mother and father divorced. As he revisits his childhood for a documentary, he talks about the family he lost and regained – and the loving home he found along the way

The Guardian - UK

From dog creches to secret Coldplay gigs: a 50-year timeline of Crisis at Christmas

Since being established in 1972, one of the largest volunteer-led events in Europe has staged radio appeals, hosted Christmas dinner at Sir Ian McKellen’s pub, and offered guests samba lessons and more

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Wales Online

Panto now more popular than Shakespeare, says Sir Ian McKellen

Veteran thespian insists they are a great way of getting kids to go to the theatre

The Independent UK

John Bishop jokes upcoming panto has better economic policy than Liz Truss

The comedian, who is to star in Mother Goose, joked that the PM had been in touch about a golden egg that would sort out her ‘financial problems’.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve got a feeling I won’t be on stage again’: Derek Jacobi on age, ego, Igglepiggle and unrequited love

Sixty-five years after his first rave reviews, the star of I, Claudius and Last Tango in Halifax is still drowning in work – and self-doubt. Can a man who won Ian McKellen’s heart really see himself as ‘bland and uninteresting’?

Daily Mirror

Celeb agent CLEARED after activist cyclist claimed he was bulldozed by Range Rover

Paul Lyon-Maris, who represented Alan Rickman and Warwick Davis, was said to lose his temper when Michael Van Erp tried to stop him driving on the wrong side of the road

Evening Standard

Sir Ian McKellen’s agent claims YouTube activist jumped on to his bonnet in ‘Gandalf Corner’ confrontation

YouTuber Mike ‘CyclingMikey’ van Erp said he was likened to Gandalf shouting ‘you shall not pass’ in Lord of the Rings with his activism

Evening Standard

Mother Goose: How to see Sir Ian McKellen in panto in London this Christmas

The pantomime will open in Brighton before heading to London over the Christmas period

The Guardian - UK

He is the egg-man: why Ian McKellen has restored my will to live

The 83-year-old Lord of the Rings and X-Men star emerged from a giant golden egg to publicise his role in the Mother Goose panto – and given us just what we need in these troubling times

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