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Baby boomers have a smug grip on the arts

28.04.10
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

Language of love in The Real Thing

22.04.10
In Anna Mackmin’s humane revival of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the playwright seems passionate and poignant.... more

Losing the plot in Really Old, Like Forty Five

04.02.10
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's emotional debut for classic Stoppard play

07.12.09
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

Dancing to escape destiny at Lughnasa

06.03.09
Brian Friel's 19-year-old memory play, Dancing At Lughnasa, is shot through with scenes of outstanding pathos and rueful humour. ... more

Hartnett is main man in Old Vic's 24 Hour Plays

11.11.08
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

Provocative play to spearhead new season at Old Vic

22.10.08
A provocative play about a journalist accused of espionage in the war on terror is to spearhead the new season at the Old Vic... more

Under The Blue Sky barely a pass in sex education

28.07.08
Under the Blue Sky seeks to show how emotionally retarded and repressed schoolteachers can be when involved with each other.... more

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist

31.10.07
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. ... more

Orlando's West End Celebration

17.07.07
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

Finding room to Bloom

03.07.07
Hollywood heart-throb Orlando Bloom tells Siobhan Murphy why he has left the blockbusters behind and headed for the West End stage.... more

Laughter in the darkness

16.03.07
No play in modern theatrical history has suffered such a history of censorship as Nikolai Erdman's extraordinary black comedy Dying for It.... more

Fright night

12.01.07
Long thought of as "the syphilis play", Ibsen's Ghosts coldly charts the consequences of deceit. You will be hooked, promises Kieron Quirke.... 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


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