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Bank of England must be put back in charge

17.06.09
The role of the Bank of England is unclear. It sets interest rates, certainly, but its role beyond that is anyone’s guess... more

Harold Pinter honoured by Hackney Empire

17.06.09
Harold Pinter is being honoured in the borough he grew up in with a commemorative room at the Hackney Empire... more

Accident: a classically shot drama

05.06.09
Accident is a drama of stifled live, classically shot so that a veneer of high-flown civilisation obtains throughout.... more

All-star cast to perform in Pinter tribute

08.05.09
Jude Law, Alan Rickman and Colin Firth will head an all-star tribute to playwright Harold Pinter next month... more

The Funeral, written, cast and directed by Harold Pinter

31.12.08
Theatrical great Harold Pinter directed his final work - as his funeral took place in accordance with his wishes... more

Birthday Party started my love affair with the stage

31.12.08
I measure out my entire theatre-going life in terms of Harold Pinter. For I owe my passion for the stage and the enthralling, emotional impact it has had upon me to the spell Pinter's plays began to cast upon me when I was just into my teens. ... more

Brickbats and brilliance - what our critics made of his plays

31.12.08
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No Man's Land was made for the Great Gambon

29.09.08
The Great Gambon (as Ralph Richardson dubbed him) returns to Pinter in a new production of No Man’s Land directed by the wünderkind Rupert Goold, whose interpretation of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart proved such a hit.... more

Nothing is sacred when it comes to being profane

26.08.08
Is nothing sacred? Children's novelist Jacqueline Wilson had her latest bestseller My Sister Jodie removed from Asda shelves after a complaint about the use of the word "twat" in the text... more

Walliams in the West End for ... (pause) Pinter

03.07.08
David Walliams is to make his West End debut alongside Michael Gambon in a new production of a Harold Pinter classic... more

It's never too late to try Pinter

21.05.08
Birthday Party was the best thing Richard Godwin has seen in ages — and doubly moving for the presence of the playwright himself in the audience.... more

Pinter's birthday treat

13.05.08
A shocking, triumphant return for Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party almost 50 years since every theatre critic but one poured scorn and worse upon it.... more

Stoppard and Pinter set for Gala

20.02.08
Undettered by their ban in their own country, the Belarus Free Theatre is hosting a star-studded double bill tonight.... more

Stars back theatre group banned in their homeland

20.02.08
Sir Tom Stoppard will host a gala tonight in support of a theatre company banned in its home country... more

Actors who take real risks on stage

15.02.08
Banned in its repressively policed homeland, the Belarus Free Theatre is appearing in London despite considerable risk to the company.... more

Sex, lies and Pinter

30.01.08
Harold Pinter has never offered us more illuminating, sexually-related pleasure than in The Lover & The Collection, two exquisite one-acters.... more

Boy's own memoir by Pinter

09.01.08
An unpublished Harold Pinter memoir of his youth in Hackney goes on display for the first time at the British Library.... more

Charlie to sprinkle stardust on stage

03.12.07
The rising star of Matthew Vaughn's hit movie Stardust, Charlie Cox, is to make his West End theatre debut in a Harold Pinter revival.... more

Pinter takes over the asylum

19.07.07
Harold Pinter's The Hothouse at the National engenders a beguiling sense of surprise and novelty and bristles with unease and menace, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Secrets, lies and Pinter's sound of silence

06.06.07
Harold Pinter casts a rare, revealing eye on adultery and its companion, mendacity, in Betrayal, his indelibly fine account of a triangular love affair in Seventies literary London.... more

Pinter awarded honorary degree

13.04.07
Harold Pinter, considered by many to be Britain's greatest living playwright, is to receive an honorary degree.... more

Pinter joins Lord Mayor for poetry reading

23.02.07
There's a rare opportunity to meet the famous playwright Harold Pinter this Thursday when he makes an appearance at a charity poetry reading at Mansion House.... more

Pinter is back with a vengeance

23.02.07
The explosion of interest in Harold Pinter plays has reached a new level with the Donmar Warehouse announcing a revival of adultery drama Betrayal.... more

National to stage classic Niven film

15.02.07
A much-loved war film has been adapted into a play to be staged at the National Theatre.... more

Evans mesmerising in vintage piece of theatre

09.02.07
Nicholas de Jongh was pleased to discover Harold Pinter's 1957 black comedy The Dumb Waiter - starring Lee Evans and Jason Isaacs - has lost none of its potency.... more

A lost People

02.02.07
Actors frequently playing at the top of their exaggerated voices did little to show the Harold Pinter sketches in Pinter's People to good advantage, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

From Potter to Pinter

30.01.07
Jason Isaacs talks to Claire Allfree about killer roles and his upcoming part in Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. ... more

Slapstick star Lee plays it straight

09.01.07
Comedy star Lee Evans has passionately defended straight drama, which is under increasing pressure in the West End.... more

Evans gets serious in Pinter play

04.01.07
Slapstick comic Lee Evans is to return to the stage in a serious drama - the 50th anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter.... more

Riveting five-star performance

16.10.06
Harold Pinter winds down his amazing dramatic career with a swansong performance in Krapp's Last Tape that will be written up in theatrical history.... more

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