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...The American actor, loved by many as the wise detective Lester Freamon in HBO’s The Wire and now 71, is taking a break from working on one of Shakespeare’s most enigmatic characters: the Fool in King Lear...
...Here the chemistry between the two actors, Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani, is palpable, as they feel their way through this deft, multi-layered exploration of male friendship, brotherhood and parenthood....
...says Lester). And they see elements of their own personalities and friendship in the play. “It is about love,” says Lester....
...Audiences could tune in to watch Andrew Scott perform Stephen Beresford’s Three Kings live from the Old Vic, for example, or Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani deliver Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hymn in London’s Almeida...
...There’s also Helen McCrory in Medea, Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear in Nicholas Hytner’s excellent Othello, the beautiful Amadeus with Lucian Msamati and Helen Mirren in Phèdre....
...Curated by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Adrian Lester, each of the seven existing monologues focuses on one decade....
...We’re meeting in London, where she lives with her two teenage daughters and her husband, the leading actor Adrian Lester. Lester reads all her work and is one of her straightest critics, she says....
...Sarah Tynan and Nicholas Lester do nicely enough as Eurydice and Orphée. Geoffrey Paterson conducts....
...Next time you leave a job, make like Josie Rourke and line up a giant ball pit, a host of cheerleaders and Adrian Lester in a silver-sequinned T-shirt shimmying sweetly and waving a spliff the size of a...
...And at the heart of the piece is Lester’s poignant Eddie: damaged, clumsy, eager and desperately lonely. ★★★☆☆ To March 9, hampsteadtheatre.com...
...Sandy Lester....
...Lester Lynch was the sturdy Shylock who wins sympathy in spite of himself. Sarah Castle and Mark Le Brocq did well in the challenging roles of Portia and Bassanio....
...Last month she published Who I Am, a memoir co-written with the novelist Christophe Bataille, that attempts to reconcile some of her feelings about Sarah’s death....
...Adrian Lester reprises his fine performance in this often shocking drama about prejudice in theatre. branaghtheatre.com, January 23-February 27 The Tempest / The Winter’s Tale Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonFollowing...
...Liberal Democrat peer Lord Lester this week called on Theresa May, home secretary, to publish the details of her department’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, while human rights campaigners Amnesty International...
...For Haas, the challenge gave its centre for entrepreneurship — the Lester Center — a chance to build an online curriculum for the 10 finalists....
...Lord Lester, a Liberal Democrat peer and barrister who was special adviser on constitutional reform to Gordon Brown when he was prime minister, said: “It was Cameron’s failure to allow that second question...
...Kinnear is now stepping into Iago’s creepy boots (along with Adrian Lester as Othello in Nicholas Hytner’s new production). I meet him during a lunch break from rehearsals....
...At the helm is Adrian Lester, giving a superb performance as the pioneering black American actor, Ira Aldridge. The play opens in 1867 at the end of Aldridge’s life....
...“The impact on food security is most significant for local-level fisheries in poorer countries, but this isn’t just a developing world problem,” said ecologist Sarah Lester....
...Add to that a strong baritone voice and an ability to get to the chilly heart of Onegin’s character, and Nicholas Lester is near ideal casting....
...A request for an interview with Mr Morse or Gary Lester, vice-president of community relations for The Villages, was declined on Monday morning....
...Lucian Freud: Portraits, edited by Sarah Howgate, National Portrait Gallery, RRP£35 Lucian Freud: Drawings, by William Feaver, BlainSouthern, RRP£40 The catalogues to this year’s two landmark Freud shows...
...Wein’s first bill included Billie Holiday re-uniting with Lester Young and, innovatively, had traditionalists and modernists sharing the same bill....
...Adrian Lester, new to the production, hasn’t yet cracked Brick’s cruel indifference to his wife in the first act – he is a bit starchy – but he is wonderful in the agonising encounter with his father....
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