I went to the Old Vic in good faith, truly I did. After nearly three hours in the stalls, I found The Real Thing was all that is alienating about the theatre... more
Tamsin Oglesby’s new play Really Old, Like Forty Five is set in a dystopian future, where Britain is desperately overcrowded with infirm pensioners.... more
Toby Stephens is to make an emotional debut at the theatre where his parents -Robert Stephens and Maggie Smith - performed as part of Laurence Olivier's original National Theatre company... more
Josh Hartnett, Martin Freeman, Dervla Kirwan and Jessica Hynes are four of the stars who will take part in this year's 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at the Old Vic... more
A dazzling year of performances on the London stage will be honoured at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007. Here, for the first time, is the longlist.
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Making his West End debut in In Celebration, Orlando Bloom's sexual charisma and androgynous prettiness before the camera vanishes clean away on the stage's more distant perspective.... more
The Lightning Play is an indigestible, drearily derivative theatrical cocktail set at Halloween in which the spiritual and material worlds overlap.... more