Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, premiered in 1977, poses a vital question for countries where the still small voice of dissent remains stifled.... more
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months.
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Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre. ... more
Nick Stafford's War Horse, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book about a Devon farm horse amid the horrors of the First World War, makes a welcome return.
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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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War Horse is a fine, lyrical, emotionally charged piece of theatrical work that evokes a vanished, hierarchic England at war, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
The National's director Nicholas Hytner has attacked London's theatre critics for their alleged misogyny. The Standard's man in the stalls could not disagree more.... more
Adaptors Tom Morris and Emma Rice have torn the heart, soul and magic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's famous 1946 fantasy film A Matter Of Life And Death.... more
Carl Heap and Tom Morris's rough-round-the-edges production of St George and the Dragon proved a hit with the kids in the audience, despite lacking a definite plot-line.... 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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