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The Standard Theatre Awards 2009: Longlist revealed

02.11.09

Our longlist for the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards proves it has been 12 months of critical as well as commercial success.... more

Diana Vickers is a fine new Little Voice in a big role

21.10.09

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is amusing, affecting and decidedly old-fashioned.... more

Magic of Italy in L�Elisir d�Amore

24.07.09

Donizetti�s L�Elisir d�Amore (The Elixir of Love) is one of the few bel canto comedies to have survived but it needs bold direction.... more

Duet For One works stunningly for Juliet Stevenson

13.05.09

Juliet Stevenson as the karmically challenged Stephanie is Duet For One's star. Her performance is nuanced, unsentimental and affecting.... 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

Best Christmas shows in London

04.12.08

Clive Rowe squeezes into the dame's dress at Hackney Empire, Elton John returns to the O2 and Angelika Kirchschlager hits the high notes in Hansel and Gretel.... more

In A Dark Dark House is gripping tale of brothers grim

28.11.08

Neil LaBute, who offers audiences a feel-bad after-glow to take home with them, issues another cautionary warning about family life in In A Dark, Dark House.... 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

Lust and loathing in small-town USA

12.07.07

Even fans of Matthew Bourne will wince at The Car Man whose character clich�s and emotional histrionics leave the audience numb, says Sarah Frater.... more

Away with the fairytales

19.06.07

Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods is set in a Shrek-type fantasy world and gets a fine outing in this magical production at the Royal Opera House.... more

Near-naked ambition from Royal Ballet

27.04.07

A barely-clothed Seven Deadly Sins raises the eyebrows in this triple bill from the Royal Ballet. But Sarah Frater isn't sure if it really works.... 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

Revelatory Will finds key to Coward classic

23.01.07

It has taken more than 80 years and the performance of Will Young to bring out the full truth about Nicky Lancaster, No�l Coward's angry young man in The Vortex.... 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

Tamsin's terrific in Much Ado about Cuba

14.12.06

Tamsin Greig's tight-skirted, melancholic Beatrice is just the kind of cool woman to deliver winning shots in Much Ado About Nothing's sex-war. ... 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