http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-10903-lez-brotherston/topic-rss.do Lez Brotherston RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23763315-the-standard-theatre-awards-2009-longlist-revealed.do Our longlist for the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards proves it has been 12 months of critical as well as commercial success. 2009-11-02T10:25:45Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23759079-fine-new-little-voice-in-a-big-role.do The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is amusing, affecting and decidedly old-fashioned. 2009-10-20T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23723814-magic-of-italy-in-lelisir-damore.do 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. 2009-07-23T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23690689-duet-for-one-works-stunningly-for-juliet-stevenson.do Juliet Stevenson as the karmically challenged Stephanie is Duet For One's star. Her performance is nuanced, unsentimental and affecting. 2009-05-12T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23658395-dancing-to-escape-destiny-at-lughnasa.do Brian Friel's 19-year-old memory play, Dancing At Lughnasa, is shot through with scenes of outstanding pathos and rueful humour. 2009-03-06T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23597091-best-christmas-shows-in-london.do 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. 2008-12-04T11:30:17Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23594156-in-a-dark-dark-house-is-gripping-tale-of-brothers-grim.do 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. 2008-11-28T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23418936-evening-standard-theatre-awards-2007-the-longlist.do 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. 2007-10-31T10:50:28Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23404629-orlandos-west-end-celebration.do 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. 2007-07-16T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23403979-lust-and-loathing-in-small-town-usa.do Even fans of Matthew Bourne will wince at The Car Man whose character clichés and emotional histrionics leave the audience numb, says Sarah Frater. 2007-07-11T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23401154-away-with-the-fairytales.do 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. 2007-06-18T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23394122-near-naked-ambition-from-royal-ballet.do 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. 2007-04-26T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23389168-laughter-in-the-darkness.do No play in modern theatrical history has suffered such a history of censorship as Nikolai Erdman's extraordinary black comedy Dying for It. 2007-03-16T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23382645-revelatory-will-finds-key-to-coward-classic.do It has taken more than 80 years and the performance of Will Young to bring out the full truth about Nicky Lancaster, Noël Coward's angry young man in The Vortex. 2007-01-23T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23381322-fright-night.do Long thought of as "the syphilis play", Ibsen's Ghosts coldly charts the consequences of deceit. You will be hooked, promises Kieron Quirke. 2007-01-12T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23377982-tamsins-terrific-in-much-ado-about-cuba.do 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. 2006-12-14T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23375177-this-halloween-trick-is-no-treat.do The Lightning Play is an indigestible, drearily derivative theatrical cocktail set at Halloween in which the spiritual and material worlds overlap. 2006-11-20T00:00:00Z