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Unbeatable Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing

02.06.09
As the sun sets, the fairy lights twinkle, the Pimm's flows and Much Ado About Nothing plays out agreeably before us in Regent's Park. ... more

Superb production of All's Well that Ends Well

29.05.09
In Marianne Elliott's gorgeous production of All's Well That Ends well, the textures of this layered and awkward work are fully explored.... more

War Horse is a National winner

06.04.09
War Horse canters into town with the confidence of a natural-born winner in this superb production by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris. ... more

Mrs Affleck wasn't worth the risk

28.01.09
Mrs Affleck reminds us how risky it is to attempt the wholesale rewriting and updating of a classic text.... more

The man who wrote the script for London’s theatre boom

27.01.09
His musical, Billy Elliot, is a hit on Broadway. Now Lee Hall is bringing his Evening Standard Award-winning The Pitmen Painters back by popular demand.... more

Real hero back in War Horse

18.09.08
Nick Stafford's War Horse, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book about a Devon farm horse amid the horrors of the First World War, makes a welcome return. ... 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

Hairspray collects record award nominations

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

Horsepower for techno teens

29.11.07
Critics are calling War Horse one of the most enjoyable night's of their lives, and Gemma Hodges agrees. "It's wicked" says the 13-year-old.... more

From Shameless to National treasure

27.11.07
Anne-Marie Duff claims she was 'the runt of the year' at drama school - but now she has picked up the Evening Standard Best Actress prize for her astonishing portrayal of Saint Joan.... more

Acting trio to present our theatre awards

23.11.07
Actors Simon Russell Beale, Dame Eileen Atkins and Sophie Okonedo will hand out prizes at the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Double winner and TV comic present awards

21.11.07
Stage legend Sir Ian McKellen and TV favourite Meera Syal will be among the presenters at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the shortlist

07.11.07
Billie Piper, Patrick Stewart and Hairspray are some of the names on the shortlist for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist

31.10.07
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. ... more

Tears and joy as puppet pulls at heartstrings

18.10.07
War Horse is a fine, lyrical, emotionally charged piece of theatrical work that evokes a vanished, hierarchic England at war, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Pathetic Joan stokes up a blaze of theatricality

12.07.07
No 20th century British play better demonstrates the dangers and intolerances of religious fundamentalism than Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Theatre wars - the dead white male hits back

15.05.07
The National's director Nicholas Hytner has attacked London's theatre critics for their alleged misogyny. The Standard's man in the stalls could not disagree more.... 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

Critic's choice: top 5 plays

02.01.07
It's your last chance to catch the award-winning Caroline or Change and Much Ado About Nothing at the Novello, plus, satirical comedy A Family Affair makes a terrific impression.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 plays

18.12.06
Tamsin Greig delivers winning shots in Much Ado About Nothing, Coram Boy offers a Christmas Carol-type uplift and it's the last chance to see Caryl Churchill's flight into theatrical fantasy.... more

Tamsin's terrific in Much Ado about Cuba

14.12.06
Tamsin Greig's tight-skirted, melancholic Beatrice is just the kind of cool woman to deliver winning shots in Much Ado About Nothing's sex-war. ... more

Rufus triumphant as Rock'n'Roll rules

27.11.06
Sir Tom Stoppard's politics and music saga Rock'n'Roll blasted its way to a double victory at the prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Winners to be named at London theatre awards

27.11.06
The wait is almost over. Today we will discover who has triumphed in the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... more

Dramatic rise of a theatrical superstar

24.11.06
Acclaimed as 'a genius' by her peers, director Marianne Elliott has been shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Here she talks actors, Ibsen and inspiration.... more

Stars to announce our 52nd theatre awards

20.11.06
Jeremy Irons, Kathy Burke and Alan Cumming are among the stars who will take leading roles at the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at The Savoy next Monday.... more

Love sealed with a kill

14.11.06
The National's rising directorial star Marianne Elliott pulls out the stops in a bold re-imagining of Thérèse Raquin, Emile Zola's tale of murder.... more

Stars vying to win our 52nd stage awards

09.11.06
There is plenty of intrigue thrown up by the shortlist for the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Who will take the honours?... more

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