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Let's get this after-party started

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Douglas Booth: the new boy at Burberry

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Martine McCutcheon has a look to die for at the crime awards

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Martine McCutcheon wore a killer dress on the red carpet... after all, it was the Crime Thriller Awards.... more

Dominic West is Wired in Life Is A Dream

14.10.09
In Life Is a Dream we are treated to a performance that combines lofty existential angst and poetic hyperbole by The Wire's Dominic West.... more

Dominic West: My opening night in the West End was for my mum

14.10.09
Just two weeks ago, the mother of The Wire star Dominic West died after a battle against leukaemia. He dedicated his Life Is A Dream performance to her.... more

All Hail Olga Kurylenko

05.10.09
In her next film, Olga Kurylenko plays a pagan queen – a fitting role for an imperious beauty driven by hunger and poverty to escape her deprived childhood in Ukraine... more

The Dreamboat: Rupert Evans

02.10.09
Actor Rupert Evans may have chiselled cheekbones and a nice line in noblemen, but in reality he is charmingly guileless and just a little bit accident-prone. Hermione Eyre meets a lovely luvvie... more

It’s in the genes: daughter of Wire star lands Darwin film role

11.09.09
The daughter of The Wire star Dominic West will get her own taste of stardom when she walks the red carpet for her film debut on Sunday... more

TS Eliot widow exults in his poetry reading

01.07.09
In a rare public appearance, TS Eliot's widow Valerie attended a reading of her husband's poems last night at London University... more

Railways are neither private nor public

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Once, we had British Rail. Now we have something that is neither a nationalised rail system nor one that is privately run... more

A poetic masterpiece that must be heard

30.06.09
Language "caught alive" is an intoxicating experience in all poetry - the sound is "the gold in the ore", said Robert Frost - and most particularly so with the poems of TS Eliot... more

Bluffer's guide to The Wire

06.04.09
It’s tortuous, dark and utterly gripping. As cult series The Wire hits mainstream TV, here’s how you can be in the know about Barack Obama’s favourite show ... more

Sachs is cross as Ross is up for Bafta

24.03.09
Andrew Sachs has spoken of his surprise as Jonathan Ross was nominated for a Bafta... more

It costs a packet to be a good landlord

09.01.09
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Brace yourself for Wire Weekender

19.09.08
Curzon Soho in Shaftesbury Avenue is hosting a two-day screening of all 10 episodes of the last ever series of The Wire.... more

Bond girl Gemma to play Tess Of The d'Urbevilles as TV turns back to costume dramas

20.08.08
It is a truth universally acknowledged - especially among female viewers - that you can never have too many costume dramas. ... more

What's new on television this autumn? Austen, Hardy and Dickens

20.08.08
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Andrea Riseborough is the new iron lady

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A hiding to nothing

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While the cast does its best, this prequel to the Hannibal Lecter franchise is just too slow. Derek Malcolm lost interest in the psychopath's ponderous quest to avenge his sister's killers. ... more

Critic's choice: top 5 plays

02.01.07
It's your last chance to catch the award-winning Caroline or Change and Much Ado About Nothing at the Novello, plus, satirical comedy A Family Affair makes a terrific impression.... more

Between anarchic rock and a hardline place

20.12.06
Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll is holding on in a West End submerged in a sea of musicals, proving that bracing mental exercise for audiences is still permitted on the commercial London stage.... more

Winners to be named at London theatre awards

27.11.06
The wait is almost over. Today we will discover who has triumphed in the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... 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

It's the Jerry and Bill show

24.11.06
Bill Wyman and Jerry Hall will team up to present the best play prize at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... more

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