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Arcadia provides feast of ideas from Tom Stoppard

2009-06-04T23:00:00Z

Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is that rare thing, a toothsome entertainment that also thrills us with a dozen strange thoughts before bedtime.

Rosmersholm: A towering play

2008-05-23T09:52:11Z

This masterpiece – a favourite of Freud’s – features three suicides, and a lavish portion of sexual guilt.

Helen's heart of darkness

2008-05-22T23:00:00Z

The merit of Anthony Page's lucid, refreshing production of Rosmersholm, is that it never succumbs to the temptations of melodrama

Housewife�s ripple of rebellion

2008-04-23T23:00:00Z

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

Play with no words left me speechless

2008-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other - a wordless play in which infinite characters keep the stage filled with brief, pointless bursts of activity - left Nicholas de Jongh speechless.

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist

2007-10-31T10:50:28Z

A dazzling year of performances on the London stage will be honoured at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007. Here, for the first time, is the longlist.

Old Vic's mother superior

2007-09-04T23:00:00Z

No more extraordinary, sexually charged or surreal encounter than All About My Mother can ever have been played upon the Old Vic stage.

Pinter takes over the asylum

2007-07-18T23:00:00Z

Harold Pinter's The Hothouse at the National engenders a beguiling sense of surprise and novelty and bristles with unease and menace, says Nicholas de Jongh.

Maggie's allure as the angel at death's door

2007-03-21T00:00:00Z

The Lady From Dubuque lasted just 12 performances on Broadway, but Dame Maggie Smith's undimmed allure will insure Anthony Page's otherwise poorly acted production lasts longer over here.

Beautiful, soaring Seagull is a five-star swansong

2007-01-26T00:00:00Z

This enthralling version of The Seagull offers a series of shocks for traditional Chekhov lovers and Mackenzie Crook's transition from TV comedian to serious actor is amazing.

Love sealed with a kill

2006-11-14T00:00:00Z

The National's rising directorial star Marianne Elliott pulls out the stops in a bold re-imagining of Th�r�se Raquin, Emile Zola's tale of murder.

Riveting five-star performance

2006-10-15T23:00:00Z

Harold Pinter winds down his amazing dramatic career with a swansong performance in Krapp's Last Tape that will be written up in theatrical history.

Bizarre love rectangle

2006-08-02T23:00:00Z

Theatre review: James Joyce's only play, Exiles, is a psychologically nuanced portrait of a marriage, writes Nicholas de Jongh, which draws its power from a husband's attempt to set adultery in motion.