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The Syndicate, Minerva Theatre - review

03.08.11
The Syndicate is worth seeing for an immense central performance by Sir Ian McKellen, who brings intelligence, gravity and a weary drollness to his role as the Neapolitan gangland kingpin Don Antonio... more

The surreal side of sex in Les Parents Terribles

30.11.10
Jean Cocteau wrote Les Parents Terribles in eight days at the start of 1938, bingeing on opium as he did so... more

Masterly McKellen glitters in Waiting For Godot revival

28.01.10
The Waiting For Godot revival may lack what Henry Hitchings dares to call the X-Men factor, but it has plenty of charm and spirit.... 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

Breakfast goes far too lightly at Tiffany's

30.09.09
Breakfast at Tiffany's is froth with a small shot of naughtiness in it — a cappuccino of a play, stylish perhaps but not nourishing.... more

Theatre director has kittens over Tiffany’s felines

23.09.09
When theatre director Sean Mathias embarked on bringing Breakfast at Tiffany’s to the stage there were two crucial questions... more

Shameless star joins the West End theatre boom

07.08.09
Anne-Marie Duff is to become the latest big name to take to the West End stage as theatres defy the recession... more

Anna Friel is new star of West End Breakfast at Tiffany’s show

15.05.09
Anna Friel is to take the role of Holly Golightly in a West End stage version of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. ... more

Waiting for Godot was worth it

07.05.09
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart have made Waiting for Godot, a difficult play written in 1952, a hotter ticket than any musical.... more

50 ways to have fun in 2009

02.01.09
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months. ... more

An emotional striptease

15.04.08
Triptych's scenes are never bland. They flow seamlessly into each other with the ease of a nightmare, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Too nice by half

20.02.08
This imaginative translation of Ring Round The Moon is seriously hampered by poor casting and set design.... more

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