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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

David Suchet is back playing Poirot

18.11.09
After 21 years playing super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, David Suchet returns with one of Agatha Christie's best-known works. ... more

Evening Standard theatre awards: Rachel Weisz and Lenny Henry fight stage giants for top prize

09.11.09
Stars of the British stage including Rachel Weisz, Samuel West and Lenny Henry will battle it out at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

The Standard Theatre Awards 2009: Longlist revealed

02.11.09
Our longlist for the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards proves it has been 12 months of critical as well as commercial success.... 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

London can still party with the best

04.09.09
London knows how to party even when the chips are down, and we Brits know how to shake our booty with the best of them... more

Enron dazzles as a corporate Macbeth

23.07.09
Rupert Goold the returns with the highbrow hit of the year - Enron. As the phrase goes, “buy now” for an outstanding evening.... more

Rights issues fees are no more than a tax on investors and companies

23.06.09
Peep peep. That's the rights issue gravy train steaming across the City, throwing off vast amounts of investors' money to any investment bank passing... more

Enron fraud laid bare at Royal Court

09.06.09
The scandal and financial collapse of US energy giant Enron is being dramatised in a new play... more

Stage success tastes so sweet for Menier Chocolate Factory

17.02.09
The tiny Menier Chocolate Factory theatre is to transfer its seventh production to the West End in just five years... more

Wilton casts her spell in The Family Reunion

26.11.08
The Donmar launches its T S  Eliot season by reminding us what a magical, entrancing experience The Family Reunion can be.... more

Kevin Spacey speaks of pride at turning round the Old Vic

24.11.08
Kevin Spacey spoke with pride about his success in transforming the Old Vic as the Evening Standard celebrated the best of London theatre... more

Poetry in motion for TS Eliot Festival

15.10.08
The celebration of the work of modernist poet, playwright and critic TS Eliot is ambitious even by the Donmar's standards.... more

Recycled Waste has acting at its very finest

03.10.08
Waste itself taxes, tests and stretches the mind, but what an overwhelming experience, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Telling folk tales

21.01.08
The BBCSO negotiated its way deftly through the ambiguities of Judith Weir's tantalisingly suggestive score under the assured baton of Martyn Brabbins.... more

Hollywood star joins list of Standard presenters

26.11.07
Christian Slater, Sheila Hancock, Samuel West and Olivia Williams complete the list of presenters for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... 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

Stars join 'madness' of 24-Hour Plays gala

24.10.07
A cast including Christian Slater, Ronni Ancona, Rob Brydon, and Fiona Shaw are to take up the challenge of creating and presenting six plays in 24 hours to raise money for the Old Vic.... more

One pair bluffs a full house

04.10.07
If you go to see Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice, you can rest assured that this psychological poker comedy is a safe bet.... more

National honours 100 years of Larry Olivier

24.09.07
A hundred years after the birth of Sir Laurence Olivier, stars including Richard Attenborough, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Antony Sher, Samuel West, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Anne-Marie Duff honoured him.... more

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