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Turbulent fusion of passion and mischief in Design for Living

16.09.10
Banned Coward comedy returns in triumph with a brilliant cast... more

Opening This Week: Tom Jones, Design for Living and Alvin Ailey

13.09.10
The Welsh crooner, a Noel Coward adaptation at the Old Vic, and a new performance at Sadler's Wells are on the list of things to see this week... more

Kevin Spacey aims for a classic season at Old Vic

12.07.10
Kevin Spacey has unveiled a new programme of classic plays for The Old Vic for his seventh season as artistic director... more

The shows that are big on Broadway

20.04.10
Michael Grandage’s latest US transfer, Creditors, opens tonight and there is every reason to believe it will be greeted with enthusiasm — New York has fallen for the Donmar brand.... more

Musical monster played for laughs in Telstar

19.06.09
Nick Moran’s film, based on his West End musical, lives up to its description as the stranger-than-fiction story of Joe Meek in Telstar.... more

Air Force One in danger of being diverted by Mann

05.02.09
Charlie Mann said he would be happy to switch Air Force One to Newbury's Aon Chase on Saturday should Sunday's Irish Hennessy Gold Cup be lost to the weather... more

Winners and losers of 2008

24.12.08
After the past 12 months of highs and lows in the capital, Nick Curtis sorts out the London personalities with plenty to smile about from those who have gone into freefall... more

Telstar is worth the wait

27.10.08
It’s taken years for actor Nick Moran to bring Telstar to the screen but it was worth the wait.... more

Male is deadlier species in Strindberg revival

01.10.08
Alan Rickman's production of Creditors suggests Strindberg had a complex and disturbing view of human relations.... more

Sex, drugs and ultra-violence in Donkey Punch

17.07.08
Donkey Punch's filming is energetically exuberant but the major drawback is that none of the characters are developed, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Shocking violence on show in Donkey Punch

15.07.08
Howls of outrage have duly greeted Donkey Punch; the efficiently nasty debut film by cowriter and director Olly Blackburn.... more

Film packs a nasty punch

15.07.08
Donkey Punch had its London premiere amid concerns over the depiction of a dangerous sex act which lends the film its title.... more

Bedevilled by violence

28.02.08
Leo Butler's play, I'll Be the Devil, is ferocious and heartfelt and mostly well acted but teeters throughout on the brink of absurdity.... more

Symbolic eels just slip away

10.07.07
Nell Leyshon's Glass Eels is a mildly preposterous drama of unhappy family relations in rural Somerset, dressed up in lashings of flamboyant symbolism, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Unthinking man's porn

22.03.07
Stephen Surjik's I Want Candy, about a group of students trying to make an intelligent porno movie, isn't even as sophisticated as the films it's taking a dig at.... more

The tragic art of war

18.01.07
You need to work a bit to enjoy Scenes From an Execution, says Kieron Quirke. But there's plenty of reward to be had if you do, he adds.... more


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