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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

Unions are livid at Tory pay freeze

08.10.09
Union leaders are furious about Tory plans to impose a pay freeze on public sector workers to help cut the UK’s Everest-style debt mountain ... more

Guided tour of financial crash in The Power of Yes

07.10.09
A National Theatre should tackle national issues, and that is certainly what David Hare's new play - The Power of Yes - does.... more

Whitehall cuts are so bad for adland

06.10.09
Nervousness in adland as agencies digest the thought that the next government will cut its huge advertising budget ... more

The House of Special Purposes lacks sense of impending peril

06.07.09
We all know what happened to the Romanov family but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a fine drama to be made out of the months of their imprisonment.... more

Getting the books in order is our biggest challenge

18.06.09
According to Sir Howard Davies, the first chairman of the FSA, speaking yesterday on Radio 4, research in the United States has established a link between the trust that business and investors have in the regulatory system and their willingness to invest.... more

MPs should try grilling Bank’s rate-setters

21.04.09
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Stalin casts shadow in Burnt By The Sun

04.03.09
Howard Davies's production of Burnt by the Sun makes it feel for the first few moments as if we remain in Chekhov country.... more

Now, come on, Mandy, let’s be honest...

03.02.09
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Lots of 'downsides' to come, warns Darling

29.01.09
A bleak warning of serious economic "downsides" ahead was given by the Chancellor... more

Economists cast doubt on early recovery from slump

02.01.09
Senior economists warned that Alistair Darling's hopes of an early recovery may be optimistic... more

High hopes dashed in Gethsemane

12.11.08
The melodramatics of the action in Gethsemane are not well suited to a play intent upon lamenting the decline and fall of Labour.... more

Pressure builds for Bank Rate to be cut by a point

27.10.08
Credit crisis: Bank of England urged to slash interest rates by a full percentage point as central bankers around the world face mounting pressure to tackle the global recession... more

Ex-bank chief issues warning on spending

27.10.08
Former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Howard Davies said a big government spending splurge could be "dangerous" for the economy... more

Lesbian love amongst suffragettes in Her Naked Skin

01.08.08
Her Naked Skin highlights the problems of discovering yourself a sexual outsider in middle-age and of crossing the classdivide.... more

Ministers need help, not the Bank

09.06.08
City people who are likely to be Bank of England advisers are the problem - not the solution... more

Explosive British Energy issues

30.05.08
The Government's move to sell its 30% stake in the nuclear electricity generator British Energy has a calm about it that could be deceptive... more

Don't punish us at polls for tough times says Brown

01.05.08
Embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a last-minute plea to voters not to punish Labour in the local and London mayoral polls... more

A good look at politics

27.03.08
Jeremy Irons is excellent in Never So Good - a thrilling portrait of a brave, haunted Harold Macmillan, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Irons to make his National debut as former PM

16.01.08
Jeremy Irons is to make his National Theatre debut in a new play on the life of prime minister Harold Macmillan.... more

Coward’s slight masterpiece

09.01.08
The critics slaughtered Present Laughter when it opened, but Liz Hoggard found her night at the Noël Coward comedy one of the frothiest, most entertaining of the year.... 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

Matinee idle

03.10.07
There is some comic pleasure in Noël Coward's Present Laughter, but this old commercial warhorse of a play could use updating.... more

The angry red brigade

31.05.07
Philistines, Maxim Gorky's first play, is a rousing Russian drama of angry youth on verge of revolution, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

A tale of anguish and longing

27.09.06
The rarely revived A Moon for the Misbegotten tugs pliable heart-strings, but I doubt that Eugene O'Neill's work will be much of a crowd-puller, says Nicholas de Jongh, despite the presence of Kevin Spacey.... more

Critic's Choice: Top Five Plays

04.09.06
Nicholas de Jongh picks out five of the best theatrical productions currently onstage in the West End, from the highly entertaining The 39 Steps, to the superb Frost/Nixon.... more

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