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Beverley Knight

March 2024

  • Beverley Knight … ‘You’ve got to come out swinging.’

    The G2 interview
    ‘I was cancelled’: Beverley Knight on gay rights, race and her West End renaissance

    As a chart-topping singer in the ultra-controlled pop landscape of the 00s, she refused to be sexy, spoke out about Aids and was staunchly pro-Labour. Now, she’s one of theatre’s biggest stars – and ready to get the Tories out

January 2024

  • Willem Dafoe shot for Observer magazine in London

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

  • Beverley Knight photographed for Observer Food Monthly Hair: Natasha John-lewis

    Life on a plate
    Beverley Knight: ‘When I’m on tour, my rider is kettle, water, teabags’

November 2023

  • A devastating jolt to the heart … (L-R) Beverley Knight, Azealia Banks and Jeff Tweedy from Wilco.

    ‘A reminder that life has to be lived’: the lyrics that got us through 2023

    A new Youth Music survey said that 93% of young people use lyrics as a therapeutic tool for mental health. Our writers share the lines they kept close this year

September 2023

  • Beverley and Cynthia Knight in 2023

    Flashback
    Beverley and Cynthia Knight look back: ‘My sister beats Beyoncé any day!’

    The singer and actor, and her sister, on gospel, dodgy boyfriends and meeting Bowie

April 2023

  • Beverley Knight with her award for Sylvia.

    Beverley Knight hails growing diversity of theatre audiences

    The Sylvia star, who won best supporting actress in a musical at the Olivier awards, said the Old Vic show attracts ‘people of all kinds of everywhere’
  • My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican.

    My Neighbour Totoro triumphs at Olivier awards

    Adaptation of Studio Ghibli film wins six awards, while Jodie Comer wins for Prima Facie and A Streetcar Named Desire brings Paul Mescal best actor prize
  • Best actress nominee Jodie Comer arrives at the Olivier awards

    Olivier awards 2023: the stars arrive for theatre’s big night – in pictures

    Jodie Comer, Beverley Knight and Sheridan Smith are among those attending the ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall

February 2023

  • Janet McTeer as a politician, with Assaad Bouab as the son of her ex-lover, in Phaedra.

    The week in theatre: Phaedra; Sylvia; Standing at the Sky’s Edge – review

    Lyttelton; Old Vic; Olivier, London
    Janet McTeer is mighty in Simon Stone’s electric remaking of myth; dance, not speech, powers Kate Prince’s suffragette musical; and Richard Hawley’s paean to Sheffield finds a home from home
  • Beverley Knight

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Beverley Knight: ‘Prince encouraged me to be bold’

    The singer and musical star on her role as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in a hip-hop stage show, her contempt for the home secretary and her ambition to play Aretha Franklin
  • Sharon Rose and Beverley Knight (centre) as Sylvia and Emmeline Pankhurst.

    Sylvia review – storming show sets suffragettes to soul, funk and hip-hop

    Historical characters bust contemporary dance moves while the troubled relationship between Sylvia Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline is laid bare

December 2022

  • Sacha Baron Cohen attending the reception for the Kennedy Center honorees hosted by President Joe Biden at the White House.

    Borat targets Trump, Ye and antisemitism at Kennedy Center Honors

    Sacha Baron Cohen skit receives mixed response at ceremony for lifetime achievements in the arts

October 2022

  • Beverley Knight performing on stage in yellow tshirt

    Beverley Knight: Suffragettes’ struggle still relevant today

    The soul singer plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia, a hip-hop musical returning to the Old Vic

July 2022

  • Bad habits … Jennifer Saunders and Beverley Knight in Sister Act.

    Sister Act review – Beverley Knight and Jennifer Saunders bring the laughs as rebel nuns

  • Beverley Knight

    The Q&A
    Beverley Knight: ‘Who do I despise? I can’t tell you how much what Priti Patel has done grieves me’

February 2022

  • Black British Theatre Awards 2021 - Studio<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 21: Beverley Knight poses during a portrait session at the Black British Theatre Awards 2021 at The Old Finsbury Town Hall on November 21, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Darren Bell/Getty Images for Black British Theatre Awards)

    This much I know
    Beverley Knight: ‘On stage I feel the goddess that I am’

  • From left: Adam Lambert, Sheridan Smith, Olly Murs, Beverley Knight and Jason Manford in Starstruck.

    The watcher
    Starstruck: the bizarre twist on Stars in Their Eyes that will make your soul feel empty

December 2021

  • Beverley Knight at a curtain call after a performance of The Drifters Girl at the Garrick theatre in London

    Beverley Knight scolds ‘rat-arsed’ theatregoers at London musical

  • "The Drifters Girl" - Press Night - Curtain Call &amp; Backstage<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 25: (L to R) Cast members Beverley Knight, Savanna Musoni, Tosh Wanogho-Maud and Adam J Bernard bow at the curtain call during the press night performance of "The Drifters Girl" at the Garrick Theatre on November 25, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

    The Guardian view on musicals: joy and more

November 2021

  • Shaun Evans and Nancy Carroll in the ‘glacial’ Manor.

    The week in theatre: Manor; The Drifters Girl; Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)

    Rising tides and clunking dialogue overwhelm Moira Buffini’s new play; Beverley Knight and co excel in the latest jukebox musical. Plus, the joys of karaoke Jane Austen
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