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Adrian Lester

July 2023

  • The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, speaks behind a lectern at a press conference, with several young people standing behind him

    Leading actors and artists back Labour’s push for more creativity in schools

    Exclusive: Grayson Perry and Olivia Colman lead group of creative figures supporting Keir Starmer’s plan to improve “human” skills

April 2023

  • Hamnet rehearsals at the RSC

    Hamnet on stage: Maggie O’Farrell and Lolita Chakrabarti on adapting the hit novel for the RSC

    O’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss class, place and loss in their theatre adaptation

December 2022

  • David Harewood

    Prominent black and Asian Britons warn against BBC local radio cuts plan

    David Harewood, Doreen Lawrence and others express concern at potential impact on shows aimed at BAME audiences

July 2022

  • ‘Always demanding the truth’ … Peter Brook at the Bouffes du Nord, Paris.

    ‘The greatest director the world has ever seen’ – actors salute Peter Brook

    Adrian Lester stripped back Hamlet with him, Janet Suzman can still hear the audience gasp, Glenda Jackson dug deep for the director and for Frances de la Tour he was incomparable

May 2022

  • A Strange Loop, Six and The Music Man have all been nominated for Tony awards.

    Tony awards 2022: A Strange Loop leads the nominees, while British talents are lauded

    Three actors from The Lehman Trilogy go head to head, the musical Six picks up eight nominations and the production MJ – about Michael Jackson – is also recognised

February 2022

  • Henry V

    Once more unto the breach! Burton, Branagh and the battling stars of Henry V – in pictures

    Kit Harington is the latest actor to take on the role in Shakespeare’s history play. Look back at past portrayals by Michael Sheen, Mark Rylance, Laurence Olivier, Michelle Terry and many more

January 2022

  • Martin Freeman, with Adelayo Adedayo, in The Responder.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The Responder; Trigger Point; The Gilded Age; Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust

  • Jamie Dornan discovers his identity in tonight’s finale of The Tourist.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Jamie Dornan’s identity is finally revealed in The Tourist finale

November 2021

  • Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night

    Black British culture matters
    ‘I jumped for joy’: Floella Benjamin, Adrian Lester and more on their top screen moments

    From In the Heat of the Night to Loose Women, Black British actors, directors and producers recall their landmark film and TV viewing experiences

August 2021

  • Adrian Lester, photographed in London.

    Adrian Lester: ‘I’ll never leave the stage’

    As he prepares to return to live theatre, the actor reflects on a tumultuous 18 months, and on why he needs an audience

February 2021

  • Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani in Hymn at the Almeida.

    Lockdown culture
    The week in theatre: Hymn; Typical review – first-rate and perfectly balanced

    Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani work as one in Lolita Chakrabarti’s brilliantly realised study of male friendship

October 2020

  • SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE<br>ELLIE MCKENZIE, ADRIAN LESTER &amp; CATHERINE TATE Character(s): ,Pete &amp; Sara Film ‘SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE’ (2006) Directed By ED BLUM 03 November 2006 SSL45295 Allstar Collection/TIN PAN FILMS **WARNING** This photograph can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film. A Mandatory Credit To TIN PAN FILMS is Required. For Printed Editorial Use Only, NO online or internet use. 0511z@yx

    Scenes of a Sexual Nature review – hit-and-miss Hampstead romcom

  • Victoria Hamilton, right, and Susannah Fielding in Life, ‘the best soap opera ever devised’

    The week in TV: Life; The Comey Rule; Honour; Brave New World – review

September 2020

  • ‘My kids hadn’t seen Hamilton but they knew every word’ ... Adrian Lester.

    Remote controller
    Adrian Lester: ‘We’ll never have another TV villain like JR Ewing’

    The theatre actor and Hustle alumnus – soon to star in Mike Bartlett’s Life – shares his TV loves and hates, from the Dallas patriarch to Geordie Shore

April 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Roger Allam, Surabhi Chaturvedi, Sean Burke and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

    Shakespeare solos
    Quarantine Players: stars and theatre fans unite to perform Shakespeare solos

    The Guardian and Shakespeare’s Globe present three new versions of speeches from the Bard’s plays, performed by professional actors and theatre lovers around the world

September 2019

  • Naga Munchetty said she was ‘absolutely furious’ about Trump’s racist tweets.

    Prominent Britons of colour condemn BBC over Naga Munchetty complaint

    Corporation accused of racial discrimination after presenter reprimanded for Trump remarks

February 2019

  • Traitors

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Traitors; Curfew; Flack; Baptiste – review

  • Adrian Lester (Eddie) and Katy Sullivan (Ani) in Cost of Living at Hampstead Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlan (1)

    Cost of Living review – Adrian Lester dazzles in stirring portrait of poverty

January 2019

  • Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!

    Hello again, Dolly! Stars who return to the same roles – in pictures

    Carol Channing, who died earlier this week, played the title role in Hello, Dolly! more than 5,000 times between the 1960s and 90s. Which other stars have reprised the same characters?

November 2018

  • Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of the Young Vic in London

    UK theatres back plan to improve diversity among offstage staff

    More than 90 venues including National Theatre sign up to trade union initiative
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