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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

Mayor attacked for trying to give 'Tory patsy' top arts job

04.11.09
Culture Secretary accuses Boris Johnson of trying to undermine the independence of London's Arts Council by appointing a 'Tory patsy' to head the organisation... 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

Puccini served as chop suey in Turnadot

09.10.09
You can see why ENO might have thought it a bright idea to hire the West End director Rupert Goold for its new Turandot.... 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

Opening this week

28.09.09
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has its premiere in Leicester Square and The Power of Yes comes to the National.... 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

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

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

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

Hugh joins other chefs with a beef

12.06.09
Gordon Ramsay is not the only high-profile celebrity chef having a hard time of it. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the old Etonian contemporary of David Cameron, is not exactly flush with cash.... 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

Andersen fined for inflating SSL profits

28.01.09
Accounting: Defunct accountant Arthur Andersen has been found guilty of waving through false accounting at its former audit client, Durex condoms company SSL... more

Madoff scam may spark tightening of hedge rules

22.12.08
Hedge funds could be hit by tighter regulation in the wake of the Bernard Madoff scandal... more

NatWest Three banker returned

25.11.08
Fraud: The first of the so-called NatWest Three bankers jailed in the United States for their role in the Enron fraud has returned to Britain to complete his 37-month sentence... more

The accounting rules that have turned a crisis into a disaster

24.09.08
When they come to write the history of these times, it will be interesting to see how much blame gets pinned at the door of fair-value accounting... more

Trial runs for Wall Street's finest

30.06.08
It's muggy here - a point emphasised by the increasing number of sweating brows I've watched on TV the past week, brows belonging mainly to men in suits who are on their way in and out of courthouses on charges of white-collar crime... more

America's epidemic of mortgage fraud

23.06.08
The arrest of two former Bear Stearns managers on criminal charges related to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, was not an isolated incident... more

DVD reviews: From bubble to bust

12.09.06
Enron's execs go from bubble to bust in Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Chow Yun-Fat stars in John Woo's all-action flick Another Tomorrow II, and Tristan & Isolde drips its way onto DVD.... more

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