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Richard Bean: What’s controversial about saying what I see?

07.09.10
With his adaptation of House of Games and a play about Irish-Americans and the IRA about to open, writer Richard Bean talks to Veronica Lee about his fascination with inconvenient truths... more

Peter Nichols back on parade at a pint-sized venue

09.07.10
Next work from veteran playwright Peter Nichols, author of A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, will premiere above a tiny pub in west London... more

Matt Lucas and Nick Jonas to star in Les Miserables

02.06.10
Little Britain's Matt Lucas and teen heartthrob Nick Jonas are to star in a huge, one-off production of stage hit Les Miserables.... more

Patrick Procktor: The lost dandy

01.04.10
Patrick Procktor was a flamboyant, witn society in the 1960s and 1970s. But the artist’s life was blighted by alcohol and jealousy. Gavanndra Hodge paints a portrait of a peacock... more

40 years on, ‘lost’ classics get chance at a Booker Prize

01.02.10
Leading writers are given a new chance to win a Booker Prize, with a special award commemorating works that 'fell through the net' in 1970... more

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

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

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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