Goodness gracious, Meera! After fine work last year as Shirley Valentine, the lovely Meera Syal is back on stage but in a part that is far less easy to negotiate... more
Laze on a beach by the Thames, take in a free gig - even get married at the Royal Festival Hall. You can do it all at the Festival of Britain 60th anniversary celebrations, says Nick Curtis... more
Skilful revivals of Shirley Valentine and Educating Rita are a salutary reminder that Willy Russell is a dramatist of exceptional warmth and humanity.... more
Founders of the Lush cosmetics chain said they would donate £50,000 the Standard's Dispossessed Fund as cash continues to pour in from generous Londoners... more
The BBC tackles the murky world of banking and sub-prime mortgages in a new film with a cast including Dominic Cooper, Aidan Gillen, Rosamund Pike and Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding... more
After the past 12 months of highs and lows in the capital, Nick Curtis sorts out the London personalities with plenty to smile about from those who have gone into freefall... more
Lakshmi Mittal and Srichand Hinduja are being asked to wear jeans instead of black tie to a charity ball after the event was scaled down because of the credit crunch... more
Producer Paul Raphael ignored all advice and went deep into Hezbollah territory to film his prize-winning Under the Bombs. It was worth the risk, he tells Louise Jury.... more
Nicholas de Jongh finds some great jokes in the National Theatre's Rafta, Rafta - but the plot of this Indian soap opera is too thick with old ideas.... more
Chelsea stars Frank Lampard and John Terry are being lined up to appear in a Bollywood blockbuster. The film - Jhoom Barabar Jhoom - is about the life and loves of Rikki, a Chelsea fan living in London.... more
Film news: Woody Allen has garnered scathing reviews for his second London-set movie, Scoop, starring Scarlett Johansson. Since it opened in the US on Friday, the critics have damned it variously as 'feeble', 'lackadaisical' and 'dull'.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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