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Byline: TOM CARSON Orson Welles. Volume 3: One-Man Band. By Simon Callow.Illustrated. 466 pages. Viking. $40. Citizen Kane. A Filmmaker's Journey. By Harlan Lebo. Illustrated. 362 pages As time marches [...]

Byline: Simon Callow I have been stumping around the country talking about Dickens in this bicentenary year; afterwards, I invite questions from the audience, and at some point, someone - [...]

Byline: Simon Callow Now here's a funny thing - a history of the music hall by a former Conservative prime minister. Former PMs and party leaders have tended to write [...]

Byline: Peter Conrad The grandees who gathered recently to commemorate Dickens's bicentenary in Westminster Abbey - where, incidentally, he had no wish to be buried - piously praised him for [...]

Byline: David EdgarIt's both the best and worst of times to produce a Dickens biography. Best because (for anyone just returned from the further reaches of the galaxy) 2012 is [...]

Byline: Simon Callow If not quite Boswell to Arthur Miller's Johnson, Christopher Bigsby knows more about his subject than anyone alive. He has followed the great dramatist at close quarters [...]

Byline: Simon Callow The title of Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher's new book is a little misleading - its brief is quite specific, focusing as it does on the experience [...]

Byline: Simon Callow Theatre, Robert Tanitch remarks in his riotously enjoyable new book, has never been more popular than it was in the 19th century. There have been many thorough [...]

Byline: Simon Callow Each section of this cunningly constructed causerie of a second autobiographical volume is headed with a word or words starting with the letter C. One word is [...]

Byline: Diana Quick Simon Callow has pursued a career as a writer in tandem with his theatrical profession since his student days in 1969. He has brought to both generous [...]

Byline: Simon Callow Regardless of what you may think of his acting, Sean Connery has been a highly prominent figure in the celluloid landscape of the past 40 years in [...]

Byline: Simon Callow Music continues to nag away at us. How does it do what it does? The strange potency, not just of cheap music, as Noel Coward so memorably [...]

Byline: Simon Callow If there is any one aspect of Shakespeare's work that singles him out from every other great writer, it is the astounding comprehensiveness of his treatment of [...]

Byline: Simon Callow The National Portrait Gallery's recent exhibition Gay Icons was somewhat baffling - Nelson Mandela a gay icon? The manager of Elton John's football club? Tom Ambrose's subtitle [...]

Byline: Simon Callow In terms of what we know about them, the contrast between our two greatest men of letters, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens, could scarcely be sharper. Of [...]

Byline: Simon Callow Patrick Newley, who died, absurdly early, in June of this year, was a roving showbiz correspondent who had a somewhat recherche taste for the survivors of a [...]

Byline: Simon Callow Thirty years ago, a group of us set out under the aegis of the British Council from the National Theatre to the Centre Pompidou to read poetry. [...]

Byline: Simon Callow Masks are uncanny things. They can release strange energies in the wearer and create powerful, sometimes overwhelming feelings in the spectator. They need not be stylised facial [...]