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New York salutes Billy Elliot as musical leads British charge with 10 Tony Awards

08.06.09
Billy Elliot was the toast of New York as Sir Elton John's musical picked up 10 Tony Awards, spearheading a triumphant night for British theatre... more

Three Billies in line for a Tony as musical gets 15 nominations

05.05.09
Billy Elliot, the Broadway musical based on the hit British film, has been nominated for 15 Tony Awards — more than any other show... more

Three Billies in line for a Tony as musical gets 15 nominations

05.05.09
Billy Elliot, the Broadway musical based on the hit British film, has been nominated for 15 Tony Awards — more than any other show... more

Olivier for playwright with fresh stage plans

09.03.09
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of Britain's most popular and prolific playwrights, is set to do more work in London after the huge success of his Norman Conquests trilogy at the Old Vic... more

Ayckbourn trilogy to conquer the US

03.02.09
Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy The Norman Conquests is to transfer to Broadway directly following its critically acclaimed run in London... more

Drag race for the Olivier awards

03.02.09
Drag-queen musical La Cage aux Folles leads the charge at this year's Olivier theatre awards... more

A winning year for leading lights of the London stage

25.11.08
A 100-year History Cycle and an Othello reinvented, a vivacious newcomer and a brace of best actresses — our judges explain why they chose the winners of the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Serious laughter in the master farce Norman Conquests

07.10.08
This assured revival of Alan Ayckbourn's masterful 1973 trilogy, showing in London for the first time in 34 years, usefully reminds us to take the laughter very seriously.... more

Old Vic gets round to staging Ayckbourn at last

25.09.08
It is London's oldest theatre as you have never seen it before, transformed for a production not staged in the city for a generation... more

Ayckbourn hits revived at Old Vic

15.05.08
The Old Vic is to be transformed into a theatre in the round to stage Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy, The Norman Conquests... more

Carnage in the dark does not dim the acting

26.03.08
A refreshing take on the middle classes in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage provokes laughter but does not stimulate much thought.... more

God given chance of a new hit

12.03.08
From the writer of Art and starring Ralph Fiennes, Tamsin Greig, Janet McTeer and Ken Stott, God of Carnage should be a polished comedy, says Nick Curtis in his preview.... more

Spacey and Goldblum let rip in virtuoso assault

13.02.08
Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum maintain terrific physical momentum in Speed-the-Plow, helping to disguise the play's pretty soft punch.... more

What Jeff loves about London

29.01.08
Jeff Goldblum can't wait to make his British stage debut at the Old Vic. He talks movies, Mamet - and the Wallace Collection.... more

Orchestrating the orcs

05.06.07
The director of The Lord Of The Rings tells Claire allfree why he's still glad to be bringing JRR Tolkien's book to the stage.... more

Who would want to work with hobbits?

18.05.07
Director Matthew Warchus is juggling a £12.5m budget, a cast of 50 and the biggest show the West End has seen. The Lord of the Rings just has to work on stage, he says.... more

Good Lord, it's the Orcs

10.05.07
As terrifying creatures rampaged down the aisles at the West End preview of the £25m The Lord of the Rings musical, women screamed and ran for the lobby.... more

Plenty of airsmiles as Boeing takes comic flight

16.02.07
Boeing Boeing is a traditional French farce based on bad-luck and unreliable aircraft. Nicholas de Jongh could not remember a West End evening of such sheer, silly, comic pleasure.... more

Tolkien classic takes to the stage

09.02.07
The cast of a £25 million West End stage version of The Lord Of The Rings has begun rehearsals, with the director admitting he had visited JRR Tolkien's grave to apologise for the show.... more

Flighty farce touches down again

08.01.07
French Sixties farce Boeing-Boeing, about love at an airport, is back in the West End with Tamzin Outhwaite and Green Wing's Michelle Gomez.... more

Seeking 20 hobbits - hairy toes an advantage

13.09.06
Auditions are being held to find 20 hobbits for the stage show of The Lord Of The Rings - and being under 5ft 7in and boasting hairy toes will be a distinct advantage.... more

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