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Beware the Mandy effect on the Lords

14.06.11
Simple change almost never is. English institutions and maybe the English character are constructed of crooked timber and sometimes defy reason... more

A Delicate Balance is a classy revival

13.05.11
A Delicate Balance is about the precarious nature of domestic equilibrium: a family is kept from falling apart by well-grooved patterns of behaviour, old memories and a great deal of alcohol... more

Harry Treadaway prepares to go it alone

11.02.10
Harry Treadaway made his name alongside his identical twin Luke - now, as he prepares to star in Ibsen, he talks to Nick Curtis... more

Cara Delevingne unleashes her inner Alice

20.11.09
The excellent Delevingne DNA strikes again. This time it is Cara, 17, Poppy's younger sister, hot on the heels of her model sibling. Cara Delevingne unleashes her inner Alice and goes on a fashion adventure... more

Lolita: The perfect approach to Humbert grotesquerie

08.09.09
We don’t see Lolita, the precocious 4ft10in nymphet, at all. Rather, we hear about her from her seducer-cum-protector, Humbert Humbert... more

A Night Out in London: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? & Tibits

27.04.09
Make sure you don't miss Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and visit Tibits for pre or post show dinner and drinks.... more

Masterful take on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

15.04.09
Matthew Kelly's remarkable career renaissance continues apace as the failing academic George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.... more

Polly's dramatic debut

26.11.07
Polly Stenham's first play, That Face, caused a sensation at the Royal Court. Now, two years after leaving school, she is nominated for the Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award.... more

Maggie's allure as the angel at death's door

21.03.07
The Lady From Dubuque lasted just 12 performances on Broadway, but Dame Maggie Smith's undimmed allure will insure Anthony Page's otherwise poorly acted production lasts longer over here.... more

All human life is here

20.03.07
Edward Albee, the US playwright who specialises in exploring the human condition, talks to Arwa Haider ahead of the premiere of his latest show.... more

I'm very scared of being back on stage

02.03.07
Maggie Smith returns to the West End in an Edward Albee play that hasn't been revived since its disastrous Broadway premiere. After five decades of acting, the fear, she says, is just as bad.... more

Beautiful blues for a bleak childhood

14.02.07
Rupert Goold's dream-struck production of The Glass Menagerie proves it is one of the great, unhappy family-life plays in the modern American repertoire, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Courting controversy

06.02.07
The Royal Court should provoke, says its new director Dominic Cooke in his first interview, and he plans to do just that.... more

Hollywood's new royalty

16.01.07
After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.... more

Plays fight back against musicals

06.12.06
A string of high-profile plays has been planned for next year to take on the likes of musicals such as The Sound Of Music and Spamalot.... more

Rufus triumphant as Rock'n'Roll rules

27.11.06
Sir Tom Stoppard's politics and music saga Rock'n'Roll blasted its way to a double victory at the prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

This Halloween trick is no treat

20.11.06
The Lightning Play is an indigestible, drearily derivative theatrical cocktail set at Halloween in which the spiritual and material worlds overlap.... more

Stars vying to win our 52nd stage awards

09.11.06
There is plenty of intrigue thrown up by the shortlist for the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Who will take the honours?... more


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