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Joseph Fiennes follows his nose in Cyrano De Bergerac

15.05.09
Trevor Nunn is in his directorial element with Cyrano De Bergerac.... more

Lenny Henry's Yorkshire moor burns towards greatness

22.04.09
Lenny Henry and the lads, plus a couple of token lasses, have set out on tour with Othello. ... more

The Tempest casts off shackles

19.02.09
Janice Honeyman's fast-moving production of The Tempest is a riot of colour, music, ritual masks, stilts, puppets and tribal dancing.... more

Richard E Grant brings Carnage to Richmond

30.12.08
Richard E Grant, Juliet Stevenson and Antony Sher are among the stars of the new season at Richmond Theatre... more

Legends of rock perform with sons for human rights

04.06.08
Roger Waters and Patti Smith will perform with their sons in an evening of entertainment in aid of Human Rights Watch... more

Three and Out's biggest crime? It’s dreadful

22.04.08
Causing a whirl of controversy, Three and Out has been branded offensive and insensitive. In short, it is a very bad British film, says Liz Hoggard.... more

TfL bosses attacked for giving go-ahead to Tube suicide film

27.03.08
Tube bosses were accused of insensitivity after taking money for a new film in which a driver searches for a suicide victim to jump under his train... more

Cranford's Bafta bonanza: Dame Judi receives record 24th Bafta nomination

19.03.08
She has had plenty of practice making acceptance speeches over the years. But Dame Judi Dench, 73, may have to reel off the list of thank yous once again after receiving a record 24th Bafta nomination. She is up for the best actress prize for her role in BBC series Cranford, along with her co-star Dame Eileen Atkins, also 73 ... more

Uplifting night at the Cirque

09.01.08
This year's visit to the Royal Albert Hall by pioneering Canadian circus company Cirque du Soleil is an uplifting experience and has a kick recent visits have lacked.... more

Rising starlet is top of the class at St Trinian's

21.12.07
Six months after drama school, St Trinian's star Gemma Arterton is set to be a Bond girl and is being compared to Keira Knightley.... more

For he's a jolly good Othello

05.12.07
Chiwetel Ejiofor steals the show, offering a riveting, psychological diagnosis of Othello as a black African outsider in a white world.... more

The renaissance of seduction

08.11.07
Antony Sher's The Giant turns on the suppressed homosexual desire of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Pity the action wanders so much.... more

National honours 100 years of Larry Olivier

24.09.07
A hundred years after the birth of Sir Laurence Olivier, stars including Richard Attenborough, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Antony Sher, Samuel West, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Anne-Marie Duff honoured him.... more

Terracotta army takes on King Tut

13.09.07
The battle of the burial sites has prompted more than 200,000 advance ticket sales.... more

Hampstead Theatre hosts Giant premiere

10.07.07
The latest play by Antony Sher is one of the highlights of Hampstead Theatre's new season, announced today.... more

Such two-timing tedium

31.05.07
Splitting Kean's action between the 1950s and 19th century confuses Nicholas de Jongh. But it is far from the only error in an evening of unalloyed displeasure.... more

Sher puts portraits of stage stars on display

12.02.07
Sir Anthony Sher is one of the greatest living Shakespearean actors, a leading stage director and prolific author but his collection of portraits are less well known. Until now.... more

The ultimate pub guide

20.12.06
Kate Moss has decreed that pubs beat parties, clubs or bars. Luckily, London has a fantastic array of watering holes. Here we select the best places to huddle this Christmas.... more

Plays fight back against musicals

06.12.06
A string of high-profile plays has been planned for next year to take on the likes of musicals such as The Sound Of Music and Spamalot.... more

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