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Movie stars and new writers to battle it out for Olivier Awards

08.02.10

London theatre hailed a new generation of young playwrights today in Olivier Award nominations which also recognise one of the starriest years in West End history... more

City Spy: Singalong gives Willis and Brian Eno the blues...

03.02.10

An interesting and enjoyable lunchtime seminar session on “long finance” at risk manager and insurance broker Willis was marred by a couple of bizarre musical interventions... more

High rollers caught in the spotlight in Enron

27.01.10

Rupert Goold gives Enron his customary whizz-bang treatment, flooding the stage with ticker-tape electronic screens of the stock price.... more

Opening this week

25.01.10

The premiere of the Last Station and Abbaworld opens at Earls Court, promising a 'mind-blowing' experience... more

Lucy Prebble - playing with fire

22.01.10

The West End's hottest young playwright is a commuter-belt blonde with a penchant for lying and an appetite for danger. We love Lucy Prebble, says Hermione Eyre... more

City Spy: Candys ready to take on all comers

08.12.09

Hard to fathom the Candy Brothers. Nobody, it seems, is too big for a fight as far as the dynamic duo, Nick and Christian is concerned. ... more

Why this is a great age of theatre

02.12.09

As Keira Knightley prepares to make her stage debut and Ben Whishaw sells out the Royal Court, the signs are good, says Matt Wolf, for a theatrical boomtime. ... more

It’s a Royal flush at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards

23.11.09

The Royal Court turned cutting-edge drama into establishment success as it swept the board at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

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

London's new influentials

10.11.09

'The 1000' - the Standard's list of the capital's top movers and shakers - is out tomorrow. Here's a preview of 25 bright sparks who make this year's selection for the first time... 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

Auditors face the biggest crackdown since Enron

05.11.09

The Big Four accountancy firms have been told to back off from serious conflicts of interest in pursuing lucrative advisory work at their audit clients ... 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

Whitehall cuts are so bad for adland

06.10.09

Nervousness in adland as agencies digest the thought that the next government will cut its huge advertising budget ... more

Capitalist commotion in Money

01.10.09

Money, a new show from boundary-pushing favourites Shunt, is inspired by Emile Zola's 1891 novel L’Argent.... more

Blunt truth is pointy-heads aren’t so clever after all

29.09.09

Enron, America’s most famous bankruptcy saga, wasn’t just a tale of greed, money, sex and electricity deregulation, though it was all of those things... more

Enron is a dashing tale of greed

23.09.09

Enron reclaims its rise and fall as a telling harbinger of the more recent global boom and bust.... 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

Beware smart men and the pinkish dawn

01.09.09

Why was nothing was learned from the Enron morality tale?... more

Rupert Goold is the director with the golden touch

07.08.09

Move over Mendes, watch out Nunn, Rupert Goold's production of Enron is the critical hit of the summer, and his Kubrick-inspired take on Shakespeare thrills modern audiences... more

Introducing... Playwright Lucy Prebble

24.07.09

Lucy Prebble, 28, adapted Secret Diary of a Call Girl for ITV. Her latest play, Enron, examines the downfall of the Texan-based energy firm in 2001... 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

City Spy: For Carter's pal, no wheat - just chaff

23.07.09

What do government ministers do with their time? It's a moot question, given the state the country is in, but some clue comes from the exchange of emails between the recently departed communications minister Lord Carter and his former employer, Brunswick ... more

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