Adrian Lester

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

Rachel Cooke

01, Aug, 2021 @10:00 AM

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

Susannah Clapp

28, Feb, 2021 @10:30 AM

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

Ewan McGregor, Tom Hardy and Sophie Okonedo are among the big names doing small roles in this mostly pleasant portmanteau film from 2006

Leslie Felperin

30, Oct, 2020 @3:00 PM

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

Mike Bartlett fashions a superior soap, while recent US political history rears its Trumpian head

Euan Ferguson

04, Oct, 2020 @8:30 AM

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

Interview by Hannah J Davies

22, Sep, 2020 @12:24 PM

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

Chris Wiegand Stage editor

23, Apr, 2020 @11:24 AM

Prominent Britons of colour condemn BBC over Naga Munchetty complaint

Corporation accused of racial discrimination after presenter reprimanded for Trump remarks

Caroline Davies

27, Sep, 2019 @10:36 AM

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

Channel 4’s new espionage thriller suffers from excess hindsight, Curfew delivers a stellar dystopia, and Anna Paquin is perfection in the bittersweet Flack

Euan Ferguson

24, Feb, 2019 @7:00 AM

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

An impeccable cast play out dual narratives about life on the US breadline in a tough drama that earns its poignancy

Michael Billington

01, Feb, 2019 @10:29 AM

UK theatres back plan to improve diversity among offstage staff

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

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

27, Nov, 2018 @3:43 PM

Knockouts, nobles and nukes: the 25 best British plays since Jerusalem

It is the hit that transformed British theatre. As Jez Butterworth’s epochal drama returns, our critic chooses the 25 best plays since Jerusalem – from exploited boxers to warring kings

Michael Billington

27, Jun, 2018 @5:00 AM