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Maureen Lipman

June 2023

  • Danielle de Niese and Laura Pitt-Pulford in Aspects of Love.Directed by Jonathan Ken (Opening 25-05-2023) ©Tristram Kenton 05-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The week in theatre: Aspects of Love; Rose; The Shape of Things – review

    A superb cast, including opera star Danielle de Niese, elevates Andrew Lloyd Webber’s plodding 80s musical; Maureen Lipman gives a one-woman masterclass; and Neil LaBute’s romcom gets a sharp, funny revival

December 2022

  • Andrew Nickolds, right, with Stan Hey, left, and Lenny Henry in their Soho office in the 1980s. Nickolds and Hey were then writing for The Lenny Henry Show

    Andrew Nickolds obituary

    Comedy writer who worked on Maureen Lipman’s Agony, The Lenny Henry Show, Ed Reardon’s Week and Dave Podmore

September 2022

  • Dame Maureen Lipman iin Rose

    Rose review – Maureen Lipman is magnetic in journey through Jewish 20th century

    A mourning woman looks back on her life in Martin Sherman’s ethereal yet uneven drama about history, heritage and memory

February 2022

  • Helen Mirren

    Helen Mirren says questions over playing Golda Meir ‘utterly legitimate’

    Maureen Lipman criticised decision to cast Mirren as former Israeli prime minister as she is not Jewish

January 2022

  • Helen Mirren as Golda Meir.

    Maureen Lipman: my opinion on casting was not an attack on Helen Mirren

    Letters: If the ethnicity or gender of the character drives the role then that ethnicity should be prioritised, writes Maureen Lipman
  • ‘The deep truth of any marginalised identity is only available to those who live that identity’ … Mirren as Meir in the forthcoming film Golda.

    ‘Why don’t Jews play Jews?’ – David Baddiel on the row over Helen Mirren as Golda Meir

    Maureen Lipman sparked fury by suggesting the ex Israeli PM should not be played by Mirren. But, says David Baddiel, why shouldn’t ‘authentic casting’ apply to all minorities? And where is the outcry over Bojack Horseman?
  • Maureen Lipman

    Maureen Lipman attacks casting of Helen Mirren as former Israeli PM Golda Meir

    Actor says Meir’s Jewishness is ‘integral’ to role and that Ben Kingsley would ‘never be allowed’ to play Nelson Mandela

December 2021

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Wipe your tears, Maureen Lipman, there is plenty of life left in comedy

    Rebecca Nicholson
  • Maureen Lipman

    ‘Cancel culture’ risks wiping out comedy, claims Maureen Lipman

September 2021

  • Maxine Peake in The Skriker by Caryl Churchill at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2015.

    Made in Manchester: the Royal Exchange theatre at 45 – in pictures

    The Royal Exchange in Manchester opened its doors on on 15 September 1976. Here’s a look back at some of the mighty productions staged in its atmospheric in-the-round space

January 2021

  • Maureen Lipman and Guido Castro

    Maureen Lipman’s partner Guido Castro dies after contracting Covid

    Coronation Street star says coronavirus was not main cause of death but ‘weakened him terribly’

November 2020

  • Maureen Lipman

    Lack of work for older female actors 'fair enough', says Maureen Lipman

    The actor said she was ‘too busy getting on with life’ to worry about being ‘thrown on the scrapheap’

October 2020

  • Marcus Rashford

    Marcus Rashford given MBE in birthday honours for school meals campaign

    Footballer urges PM to extend voucher scheme after being named on list delayed by Covid

August 2020

  • ‘It’s just that, unfortunately, I’m right’ … Maureen Lipman.

    Maureen Lipman: 'I'd have to be stark raving mad to support Boris Johnson'

    Trans actors, Palestine, Tony Blair, typecasting, socialists with multiple houses … as she stars in Rose, a play that covers everything from the Holocaust to the six-day war, the actor lets rip

June 2020

  • Maureen Lipman arrives at Women of the Year Lunch and Awards, at Royal Lancaster Hotel London, UK - 14 Oct 2019

    Sunday with Maureen Lipman: ‘I’m a vulnerable old heap, but I seem to be all right at the moment'

    The actor on radio, pottering and eating ravioli in bed

July 2019

  • Richard Wilson as Victor Meldrew in One Foot in the Grave.

    'I don't believe it!': stars on life haunted by their catchphrases

    How do actors cope with having their defining line shouted at them in the streets – for decades? Richard Wilson, Maureen Lipman and Tony Robinson tell all

February 2019

  • David Mitchell

    Why didn’t Liam Neeson just stick to the script?

    David Mitchell
    Is the actor racist? It might explain why he hung around with a cosh 40 years ago, but not why he’d tell anyone now

August 2018

  • Sam Wills in The Tape Face Show, at the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, 2018.

    Hamilton goes F1, unseen Blue Peter and Maureen Lipman is up for it: Edinburgh festival 2018 – in pictures

    Edinburgh festival 2018 – in pictures. All photography by Murdo MacLeod
  • Maureen Lipman

    Maureen Lipman Is 'Up for It' review – big personalities, old jokes and smooth music

    The actor and comedian’s lucky dip of a show offers sketches, songs – and a controversial take on #MeToo
  • Maureen Lipman as the ‘eye-wateringly withering’ Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street

    Maureen Lipman to play 'outspoken battleaxe' in Coronation Street

    Actor and comedian ‘will add a fresh dollop of northern humour’ as Evelyn Plummer, the grandmother of Tyrone Dobbs
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