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Derek Jacobi

April 2023

  • Derek Jacobi

    Derek Jacobi: high ticket prices are making theatre ‘elitist’

    Veteran actor, awarded Olivier for lifetime achievement, says cost must not prohibit putting ‘bums on seats’

March 2023

  • Jacobi: ‘The voice that can fill an auditorium is thrilling.’

    Sir Derek Jacobi: ‘The sound and magic of voice are disappearing from theatre’

    The acclaimed actor – who is to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Olivier Awards – says the demise of repertory theatre is putting paid to the vocal prowess

February 2023

  • Composite: Dame Arlene Philips and Sir Derek Jacobi, Olivier Awards

    Derek Jacobi and Arlene Phillips picked for career-crowning Olivier awards

  • Judi Dench and Bally Gill during the filming of Allelujah.

    ‘We fetishised being young – it’s just stupid!’: Judi Dench and Richard Eyre on ageing, Covid and saving the NHS

December 2022

  • ‘I’m a venal narcissist’ … Comedian Leo Reich

    2022 in Culture
    Through the looking glass: Guardian portraits of the year – in pictures

    From Steve-O and Samantha Morton to nudists and pigeon racers, here are the Guardian and Observer’s best portraits – and features – of the year

October 2022

  • Actor Derek Derek Jacobi [and his Irish Terrier Daisy] at his North London home.

    The G2 interview
    ‘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’?

September 2022

  • Derek Jacobi in A Bird Flew in.

    A Bird Flew in review – heartfelt portrait of film-makers struggling with lockdown

  • Jennifer Saunders in Allelujah.

    Allelujah review – sweet but slight Alan Bennett hospital drama

January 2022

  • Antony Sher in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Swan theatre in the RSC production directed by Gregory Doran in 1997.

    Never mind the nose: what makes Cyrano de Bergerac a hero for all time?

    Edmond Rostand’s great romantic has drawn actors including Ralph Richardson, Antony Sher and James McAvoy to its lead role. It is a tale of glorious theatricality, glittering poetry and heroic self-sacrifice

July 2021

  • Coronavirus: singing celebrities make film urging Britons to get Covid jab – video

  • Nicola Roberts appearing in film supporting Covid-19 vaccination programme.

    Singing celebrities make film urging Britons to get Covid jab

February 2021

  • Simon Callow and Derek Jacobi: ‘You won’t remember Derek, but I met you in the canteen at the Old Vic.’

    Double acts
    'A critic said my stomach was a warning to us all!' Simon Callow meets Derek Jacobi

  • A marvel of hybridity ... Emily Redpath and Sam Tutty in Romeo & Juliet.

    Lockdown culture
    Romeo & Juliet review – Verona is a dystopia in trailblazing tragedy

November 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Kenneth Branagh, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.

    For One Knight Only: what we learned about Judi, Maggie, Ian and Derek in their Zoom knees-up

  • Judi Dench

    Judi Dench and Ian McKellen head cast for Zoom show in aid of UK theatre workers

June 2020

  • Pete Postlethwaite as Macbeth in 1997

    Foul is fair: stunning shots of Shakespeare's Macbeth – in pictures

  • Michelle Collins

    Working-class talent blighted by Covid-19 pandemic, says actor Michelle Collins

December 2019

  • Writer Neil Gaiman, left, with Glenda Jackson and Kit Harington

    The week in radio: Neil Gaiman’s Chivalry; Christmas Compass; The Nutcracker and more

    Musical radio chairs, Neil Gaiman and a ‘best-smelling’ US housewife delivered wall-to-wall festive cheer

July 2019

  • Horrible Histories The Movie: Rotten Romans. Rupert Graves, second left

    Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans review – the empire strikes back

    Derek Jacobi gamely reprises his celebrated role as Claudius in an entertaining big-screen outing for the CBBC television series

May 2019

  • ‘What’s next, Methuselah?’ Ian McKellen, who turns 80 on Saturday.

    'I even loved his Twankey': Dench, Hopkins, Mirren and more on Ian McKellen at 80

    Wild parties, stunning performances, silhouette erections and marrying Patrick Stewart twice … as the actor turns 80, friends including Derek Jacobi, Janet Suzman, Michael Sheen, Bill Condon and Stephen Fry pay tribute
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