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Our winners set Standards for theatre accolades

20.11.09
Former winners Patrick Stewart, Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale will be handing out the honours to new victors at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards next week... more

Twelfth Night is light on laughs

22.10.09
Gregory Doran's production of Twelfth Night, which transfers to London in December, has enchanting moments.... more

Anna Friel bares all for Breakfast at Tiffanys

30.09.09
Anna Friel adopted a tough new fitness routine to prepare for the rigours of playing Forties society girl Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's.... more

The play's the thing, as theatres rediscover drama this autumn

16.09.09
Londoners are being invited to make the play the thing this autumn as a cavalcade of stars prepares to tread the boards... more

Bouncers tackle rowdy West End audiences

03.08.09
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Waiting for Godot was worth it

07.05.09
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart have made Waiting for Godot, a difficult play written in 1952, a hotter ticket than any musical.... more

Macbeth, Oliver! and now Puccini... theatre director Goold signs up to ENO

02.04.09
Award-winning director Rupert Goold, 36, is to direct Turandot in the English National Opera's next season ... more

War Horse leads the charge as West End shows sell £5million tickets in advance

17.03.09
A peculiar triumvirate of Waiting For Godot, Calendar Girls and War Horse is heading a storming start to the year in West End theatre with almost £5million in advance ticket sales... 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

Theatrical happiness is a Hamlet called Tennant

04.12.08
David Tennant's Hamlet has been heralded as one of the finest performances of its kind by the audience after its opening night in London... more

McKellen to make Beckett debut at 70

31.10.08
Sir Ian McKellen will celebrate his 70th birthday by partnering Patrick Stewart in Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot... more

Here's a prince for our time

06.08.08
David Tennant is sensational as a manic-depressive and authentic Hamlet but the play is lacking something, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Trekkies and Dr Who geeks banned from RSC's new production of Hamlet

24.07.08
Doctor Who fans hoping to get an autograph from David Tennant at the stage door of the RSC production of Hamlet have been banned from bringing merchandise from the TV show.... more

Grease leads the way in booming West End

08.07.08
London's theatres enjoyed their most successful year on record in 2007, with more than 13 million attendances.... more

Boom time for London's Theatreland

08.07.08
London's theatres enjoyed their most successful year on record in 2007, with more than 13 million attendances, new figures reveal... more

Can the Doctor conquer Hamlet?

04.01.08
Shakespeare has never been more popular, but in the first of three major productions of the Danish tragedy, David Tennant has a fight on his hands.... more

The man who remade the RSC

04.12.07
Last week's triumphant openings of King Lear and The Seagull crown five years of hard-won success for artistic director Michael Boyd.... more

Double winner and TV comic present awards

21.11.07
Stage legend Sir Ian McKellen and TV favourite Meera Syal will be among the presenters at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Glories of the wounded world

15.11.07
This cut-and-paste version of the BBC's television series, Earth, is a sight for sore eyes that shows the glories of our wounded world.... more

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the shortlist

07.11.07
Billie Piper, Patrick Stewart and Hairspray are some of the names on the shortlist for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... 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

The man who made us love Macbeth

28.09.07
London's most promising theatre director, Rupert Goold, takes a moment to talk about his latest show and future plans.... more

The Macbeth of a lifetime

27.09.07
Patrick Stewart's Macbeth catches both the man's fanaticism and his vacillating anguish as the historic production enjoys a perfect thrill-factor.... more

Goolden boy of theatre

25.09.07
Prolific 35-year-old director, Rupert Goold, is the new darling of theatreland and has two new major plays opening in London this week.... more

West End prepares for autumn of high drama

28.08.07
Christian Slater, Stockard Channing and Patrick Stewart head a list of big name stars gearing up for a spectacular autumn at the West End.... more

Pursuit of happiness

23.07.07
It might not be scintillating like the recent Macbeth production, but Philip Franks's Twelfth Night, also starring Patrick Stewart, is certainly very fine, says Fiona Mountford.... more

Macbeth in hell's kitchen

04.06.07
Rupert Goold's mesmerising kitchen-sink Macbeth's imaginative invention and capacity to generate shock, suspense and revulsion far exceeds Trevor Nunn's classic studio production in 1976.... more

A dazzling winter wonderland

01.03.07
Patrick Stewart makes Prospero a master of cruelty and violence in Rupert Goold's visionary and magical production of The Tempest, says Nicholas de Jongh.... 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

More Beckett than Bermuda

14.08.06
From the moment director Rupert Doone launches his Tempest with the un-Shakespearian words "And now the shipping forecast", you realise something wildly different is afoot.... more

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