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Life in a school of hard knocks in Kin

25.11.10
Plenty of books and films have treated boarding school as the very essence of dystopia... more

How Ben Barnes and Genevieve O'Reilly brought Birdsong to life

01.10.10
It was the book they said could never be dramatised, but with Sebastian Faulks, Trevor Nunn and two of our brightest young acting talents leading the charge, Birdsong can finally take flight, says Lydia Slater... more

From wronged maiden to kickass spy: Spooks star Sophia Myles

17.09.10
She has done corsets, virgins, vampires and victims. Now, it’s time for something very different as the new spy in the latest series of Spooks... more

Not so glum now... Les Mis marks 25 years with return to Barbican

15.09.10
Les Misérables, the musical about the French Revolution, is marking its 25th anniversary by returning to the Barbican where it began... more

Eliza Doolittle, summer's pop sensation

27.08.10
Eliza Doolittle's cheerful electropop has put a swing into the summer. Hermione Eyre talks to the girl from Primrose Hill about her showbiz family and why they tried to keep her out of the limelight... more

Gandalf’s got a bad hobbit...watching the X Factor, says McKellen

24.11.09
Sir Ian McKellen has revealed he has been at home watching the X Factor.... more

He's 61 with a penchant for lovers half his age, so who are the women who 'Dance with the Devil?'

04.09.08
Charles Dance has acquired the sort of unenviable love-them-and-leave-them status that has led his showbiz chums to dub him Dance With The Devil.... more

Birthdays? I gave up on mine when I was seven

27.06.08
The pictures of Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday dinner party are a gift to us all. They are the birthday party pictures to end all birthday party pictures. None of us will have to bother taking any more of our own in future. We can just point to these ones and say, well, it was sort of like that, you know?... more

No great expectations for Dickens Unplugged

10.06.08
The transatlantic-sounding Dickens Unplugged feels unnecessarily effortful and may soon go down the plughole, says Fiona Mountford. ... more

Frankly, this show is damned

23.04.08
Despite an impressive performance from Darius, a long-winded struggle to cram spectacular film Gone With The Wind on the West End stage was not worth the effort, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Hairspray collects record award nominations

07.02.08
West End hit Hairspray has received a record 11 nominations at the Laurence Olivier Awards.... more

A feast of comedy

10.12.07
A vigorous production of Nicholas Nickleby is a feast of comic amusement in part one which declines into a session of extended dullness in part two.... more

West End prepares for autumn of high drama

28.08.07
Christian Slater, Stockard Channing and Patrick Stewart head a list of big name stars gearing up for a spectacular autumn at the West End.... more

Nunn stages tale of Scarlett O'Hara

01.06.07
Trevor Nunn is to direct a stage adaptation of the classic novel and movie Gone With The Wind. It is set to open at the New London Theatre in April next year.... more

What the Dickens is going on here?

02.04.07
A visitor attraction devoted to the life and works of Charles Dickens will open at a £62million complex in what was once the Royal Naval Dockyard.... more


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