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Nicky Haslam: lord of the dance

06.11.09
Nicky Haslam has been to more parties than anyone and knows how to make an evening fizz: start planning three months ahead; decorate the ceiling; invite Paris Hilton; and never, ever engage the host in conversation... more

Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire - Mr & Mrs West End

06.11.09
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Kelly Brook looks pleased with Calendar debut

04.11.09
Kelly Brook looks delighted after her debut in the play Calendar Girls — in which she appears nude, her modesty protected by a couple of iced buns.... more

Darling, I’m not name-dropping I’m networking

16.10.09
Never mind the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Nicky Haslam's forthcoming memoirs, Redeeming Features, has set a whole new benchmark for the small world phenomenon... more

Raising a laugh for Orangaid

02.06.09
The Sumatran Orangutan Society does not monkey about when it comes to organising star-studded benefits.... more

Telling tales with John Standing

08.05.09
It's odd to find an Englishman in Jeff Harnar's American Songbook in London series but John Standing is no ordinary Englishman.... more

High spirits as Rupert Everett becomes the ghostly toast of Broadway

16.03.09
Crowning one of the most unpredictable careers in showbusiness, Rupert Everett woke up this morning a Broadway star... more

Hampstead Theatre marks 50 years with mix of old and new

11.11.08
The Hampstead Theatre is celebrating its 50th anniversary by reviving past hits from the likes of Noel Coward and Michael Frayn... more

Unbelievable Coward in Easy Virtue

06.11.08
Easy Virtue purports to be about the fading aristo lifestyle after the First World War and the injection into it of American flash.... more

Jessica slips into Easy Virtue

29.10.08
How clever of director Stephan Elliott to cast Jessica Biel in Noel Coward’s critique of English snobbery, says Nick Curtis.... more

Eat well at Dinings

13.10.08
Dinings has that intangible 'something' at the heart of every successful restaurant.It is definitely worth a visit. ... more

Love and the Terror in Liberty

04.09.08
Based on Anatole France's 1912 novel Les Dieux ont soif, Liberty starts in May 1793, when the Reign of Terror is flourishing.... more

When fraud becomes just another fun word game

29.07.08
We all love a good literary hoax. With literary (as opposed to commercial) fraud, there seems less at stake. No lives are lost, no crime is committed. Better still, it is usually a con aimed at the pretentious arts establishment... more

An Encounter worth extending

23.04.08
Brief Encounter provides an evening of wry, affectionate, inventive and moving theatrical exuberance, performed by a talented cast.... more

Cafe Royal to be given a six-star makeover in £90m hotel deal

14.04.08
The historic Cafe Royal is to be transformed into a "six star" hotel after the Regent Street building changed hands in a £90 million deal... more

Riveting Felicity draws us into the Vortex

27.02.08
Peter Hall's production of The Vortex catches Noel Coward's comedy but not enough of his underlying seriousness.... more

My affair with Brief Encounter

19.02.08
Director Emma Rice explains how she took Noël Coward's classic weepie off the big screen and into the theatre ... more

Close Encounter with exquisite but doomed affair

18.02.08
Adapted for the stage, Noel Coward's classic Brief Encounter eloquently catches the repressed, self-destructive aspect of mid-Forties, middle England sexuality.... more

Coward at his languid best

12.02.08
A small, excellently choreographed show which will thrill every dedicated Noel Coward fan and be a revelation to newcomers.... more

What to do this Valentine's Day

31.01.08
From riding the London Eye to dinner at Kew Gardens and cheering on a dog at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, we take at look at the activities on offer this Valentine's Day.... more

Brief Encounter returns to its West End roots

09.01.08
Brief Encounter has come full circle as a theatrical version by the Kneehigh Theatre Company opens at Haymarket's Cineworld.... more

Coward’s slight masterpiece

09.01.08
The critics slaughtered Present Laughter when it opened, but Liz Hoggard found her night at the Noël Coward comedy one of the frothiest, most entertaining of the year.... more

Jazz pianist treats his audience

13.12.07
Dominic Alldis is an engaging Brit who reveres the Great American Songbook but refuses to sing it in a New York accent.... more

Back into dragon's den for Felicity

10.12.07
Former Good Life star Felicity Kendal is to play a glamorous socialite and man-eating mother in Noel Coward's play The Vortex.... more

Lacking zing

30.10.07
Gavin McAlinden's production of You Can't Take It With You lacks zing and is effortful where it should be effervescent.... more

Schlocky titillation

26.10.07
Terror 2007 is grubby little evening of cheap, schlocky titillation. Quite who would be enticed to see it is beyond critic Fiona Mountford.... more

Matinee idle

03.10.07
There is some comic pleasure in Noël Coward's Present Laughter, but this old commercial warhorse of a play could use updating.... more

Revelatory Will finds key to Coward classic

23.01.07
It has taken more than 80 years and the performance of Will Young to bring out the full truth about Nicky Lancaster, Noël Coward's angry young man in The Vortex.... more

Will to play Coward's gay stage role

02.01.07
Will Young is to make his theatrical debut in a controversial play which catapulted Noel Coward to fame.... more

Heroic effort by a young Coward

04.12.06
Written in 1918, when he was only 18 and not revived since a brief London run in 1926, Noel Coward's The Rat Trap is an absolute revelation.... more

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