With a Christmas Day engagement, fatherhood looming and a return to the National Theatre, James Corden is looking forward to 2011 as a much more peaceful, happy year, says Liz Hoggard... more
We tend to think of Shakespeare as a magus, so to see him as we do in Edward Bond’s Bingo — an impotent and sleepless old man, fiftyish but looking more — is unsettling.... more
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
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
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
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.
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Patrick Stewart's Macbeth catches both the man's fanaticism and his vacillating anguish as the historic production enjoys a perfect thrill-factor.... more
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
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
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
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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