Don Warrington: ‘If I could have my time again, I’d be braver’
The actor, 72, tells Michael Hogan about the amazing success of Death in Paradise, meditation and money, prejudice in acting, the worst job he ever had and his problem with hats
October 2022
Sunday with Don Warrington: ‘I can look out the window for hours’
The actor tells Rich Pelley about learning his lines, swimming in Caribbean seas and taking the days as they come
February 2022
The Q&A
Don Warrington: ‘I’m too self-possessed to have a most embarrassing moment’
The actor on moving to Newcastle from Trinidad, Smarties and being put up for (but not winning) awards
January 2022
‘Sidney Poitier was the only light at the end of the tunnel’: Don Warrington on his lifelong hero
The Trinidadian-British stage actor – and star of Death in Paradise and Rising Damp – pays tribute to a Black Hollywood pioneer
September 2021
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
July 2021
Singing celebrities make film urging Britons to get Covid jab
David Walliams, Jim Broadbent, Nicola Roberts and Asa Butterfield among stars performing in short film
April 2020
Lockdown culture
Play on! 12 of the best Shakespeare productions to stream
Theatres may be closed but you can celebrate the Bard’s birthday on Thursday by watching one of his plays online
November 2019
Don Warrington on Mustapha Matura: he brought the West Indies to British theatre
The actor and director pays tribute to the Trinidadian playwright who has died aged 79
June 2019
Jarvis Cocker to compose music for Manchester Royal Exchange's new season
Cocker to collaborate on new Simon Stephens play, while Lucy Ellinson to play Macbeth and Neil Bartlett to stage 24-hour work on Remembrance Sunday
October 2018
Death of a Salesman review – Don Warrington is the business
Sarah Frankcom gives Arthur Miller’s decline-and-fall drama an extra edge in this powerful production
March 2018
'You try to escape with a modicum of dignity': actors on their best and worst auditions
From a ‘cattle market’ Inbetweeners casting to a nightmare meeting with the Coens, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Don Warrington and others recall their nailbiting experiences
November 2017
Glengarry Glen Ross review – Christian Slater is top dog among cut-throat conmen
A tip-top cast play David Mamet’s desperate salesmen turned robbers in his scorching condemnation of the dangers of male ego-driven capitalism
April 2016
King Lear review – two Lears acting up a storm
King Lear review – as close to definitive as can be
January 2016
Don Warrington: 'I can be angry. I can want to kill'
He’s done everything from Rising Damp to All My Sons and Holby. But now Don Warrington is facing the biggest challenge of his career: playing Lear. He talks about becoming a Geordie, wanting to be Brando – and why England has never felt like home
October 2015
After a century of black British theatre, actors still struggle to take centre stage
As Lenny Henry prepares a major radio series on the history of black drama, we look at the triumphs – and travails – of its stars
October 2013
All My Sons – review
All My Sons – review
March 2010
Portrait of the artist
Portrait of the artist: Don Warrington, actor
'I was a bit embarrassed by Rising Damp. I'd trained to go into theatre – doing a sitcom wasn't in the script'
December 2008
Credit crunch blamed for 'black Baftas' cancellation
Screen Nation Awards 2008 axed at the last minute after unnamed backer pulls out
