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Triumph as O'Neill joins Prick Up Your Ears

02.11.09
Matt Lucas having left the show Con O’Neill has taken over the role of Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears.... more

Matt Lucas's ex-partner 'had battled addiction'

07.10.09
Ex-partner of comedian Matt Lucas was battling drug addiction when he apparently killed himself, it was reported... more

Yeah but no, for Prick Up Your Ears

01.10.09
Matt Lucas delivers a performance that is complex and precisely gauged, albeit hyperbolic, in Prick Up Your Ears.... 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

Matt Lucas' gay divorce

11.09.09
Matt Lucas may have slimmed down since separating from his husband, but his career’s ballooning, he tells Marianne Macdonald... more

David Bailey captures Londoners alive at night

18.08.09
David Bailey recently spent a night taking pictures of ordinary people doing sometimes extraordinary things in the East End with a camera phone ... more

Mathew Horne collapses on stage during West End show

03.04.09
A West End show came to an abrupt halt after both its lead actors fell ill before the end of a matinee... more

Nelson Mandela and other gay icons on show in London

26.03.09
Will Young and Nelson Mandela will stand side by side in a new exhibition of "gay icons"... more

Don’t blame middle class for Britain’s learning gap

05.02.09
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Entertaining Mr Sloane is still seductive

02.02.09
Forty-five years after its London premiere, Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane comes up almost as fresh as a four‑leaf clover.... more

A life and death story that could be yours too

26.01.09
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Farcical antidote to seasonal goodwill in Loot

16.12.08
Loot takes serious aim at an England eager to wear the trappings of respectability while succumbing to immorality.... more

Anglo-Irish madness in Walworth Farce

25.09.08
Mikel Murfi's chronically boisterous production of The Walworth Farce remains true to the title with its characterising notes of grotesquerie.... more

Good welcome at The White Horse

08.09.08
The White Horse is a friendly pub and it gives the impression that it goes that extra mile for its customers.... more

How TV's obsession with perfect bodies has made a small-screen outcast of Julie T. Wallace

27.08.08
Her 6ft frame (and 48in bust) turned her into a big star. But now, thanks to TV's obsession with perfect bodies, they've made Julie T. Wallace a small-screen outcast.... more

Library books stolen by Joe Orton go on display

12.05.08
Library books stolen and defaced by Joe Orton are to go on show in a new museum dedicated to the history of Islington... more

Hammer blow

05.04.07
Gary Oldman as the gay, untrustworthy writer Joe Orton and Alfred Molina as longtime lover Kenneth Halliwell give superb performances in Prick Up Your Ears.... more

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