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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

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

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

Punk Rock: If Lord of the Flies met Skins

09.09.09
Punk Rock is an exploration of the volatility of adolescent life, its noxious snobberies and exhausting arguments... more

Pornography is explosion waiting to happen

07.08.09
It is a safe assumption that a play called Pornography is not going to flaunt explicit sexual content.... more

Playwright: my fears of an English Columbine

06.08.09
Writer of a play empathising with the 7/7 bombers is causing more controversy with a work about a bloody classroom shooting... more

Spellbinding shows at Latitude

20.07.09
It says something about the power of live theatre that a 500‑seat tent in the middle of a field was filled to overflowing at midnight on Saturday.... more

25 reasons to go to The Edinburgh Festival

01.07.09
After last year's letdown, the world's largest arts festival has got its act together to offer a thrilling array of entertainment next month.... more

Lyric turns to classic panto

03.06.09
The theatre that shocked audiences with swearing in its Christmas show last year will present a traditional pantomime for the first time in 30 years under its new artistic director.... more

New Lyric chief promises to surprise

15.10.08
Sean Holmes, the director whose work includes an acclaimed revival of The Entertainer, is to be the new head of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith... more

Bright ideas in Broken Space Season

09.10.08
Ever-enterprising Artistic Director Josie Rourke has commissioned short pieces from 10 playwrights on the loose theme of darkness and light.... more

Explosive situation in Pornography

04.08.08
The talented Simon Stephens has taken no less of a subject than a suicide bomber on his deathly way to 7/7 London in Pornography. ... more

The show that's all woman

14.05.08
Harper Regan contains a career-defining role for Lesley Sharp as Harper and explodes key myths about female sexuality and anger.... more

Housewife’s ripple of rebellion

24.04.08
Harper Regan provides an intriguing barometer of our pressured times with a middle-aged, middle-class woman as its central character.... more

National to stage classic Niven film

15.02.07
A much-loved war film has been adapted into a play to be staged at the National Theatre.... more

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