Simon Callow to Lead Arts Theatre's A CHRISTMAS CAROL

London's Arts Theatre is hosting a trio of holiday shows this year and amongst them, according to WhatsOnStage.com, will be the Simon Callow-led A CHRISTMAS CAROL.

Callow made his stage debut in 1973 with The Thrie Estates, Assembly Hall Theatre, Edinburgh. In the early 1970s he joined the Gay Sweatshop theatre company and performed in Martin Sherman's critically acclaimed Passing By.

In 1977 he took various parts in the Joint Stock Theatre Company's production of Epsom Downs and in 1979 he starred in Snoo Wilson's The Soul of the White Ant at the Soho Poly.

He has directed opera productions and has additionally authored the book Love Is Where It Falls. Recently, he starred opposite Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the West End's Theatre Royal Haymarket. Additional stage credits include Amadeus, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Holy Terror, Through the Leaves and The Woman in White. Callow has appeared in numerous films including Shakespeare in Love, A Room with a View, Howard's End and Four Weddings and a Funeral.

The show is set to run from 8 December 2011 to 14 January 2012; read the article here.