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Lolita Chakrabarti

April 2023

  • Madeleine Mantock as Agnes, with Tom Varey as William, in Hamnet.

    The week in theatre: Hamnet; You Bury Me; Pussycat in Memory of Darkness – review

  • Hamnet rehearsals at the RSC

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

November 2022

  • A portrait of William Shakespeare circa 1610

    RSC to stage play about plague death of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet

    Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel will premiere at Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in April

May 2022

  • Lolita Chakrabarti

    The Q&A
    Lolita Chakrabarti: ‘I got caught stealing crisp money aged seven. I’ve been unbelievably honest since’

    The actor and playwright on bullies, the secret of her best kiss and watching her future husband on stage as a teenager

December 2021

  • l-r Ella Dacres (Alice Parslow), Pip Carter (Gerard Bonneville), Julie Atherton (Hyena) in Book of Dust.

    The week in theatre: The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage; Life of Pi; Measure for Measure

  • Breathtaking puppetry … Life of Pi.

    Life of Pi review – the animals are the stars in this puppet-powered show

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

March 2021

  • Hiran Abeysekera photographed in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

    Lockdown one year on: Hiran Abeysekera on how Covid nixed his West End debut

    The Sri Lankan actor, who had delighted audiences at the Sheffield Crucible in Life of Pi, was poised for his West End debut when lockdown struck

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

July 2020

  • Royal Shakespeare theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

    Theatres that made us
    Theatres that made us: from Stratford-upon-Avon to the Savoy

    Continuing our series, Lolita Chakrabarti shares an electric memory and Ben Weatherill recalls stolen kisses in a historic building

July 2019

  • Hiran Abeysekera as Pi, with Richard Parker the tiger.

    Life of Pi review – Martel’s tall tale brought to astonishing life

  • Life of Pi

    Life of Pi review – triumphant tiger burns bright in a stunning show

June 2019

  • Clockwise from top left: Raoul Hausmann; Janelle Monae; Measure for Measure; Andrew McCormack; Yesterday

    Culture highlights of the week
    What to see this week in the UK

    From Yesterday to Ed Ruscha, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days

October 2012

  • Red Velvet

    Red Velvet – review

    Adrian Lester gives a major performance in this fascinating look at the pioneering African-American actor Ira Aldridge, writes Michael Billington

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