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The Thick of It returns - but which hapless minister is Rebecca Front portraying?

27.10.09
Voters delight, politicians duck for cover: The Thick of It is back. Never can there have been a better time to take apart the preening control freakery of the classe politique... more

Critics give Sienna Miller a rough ride on Broadway

23.10.09
Hot on the heels of her ex Jude Law, Sienna Miller controversially divided critics on her Broadway debut.... more

Anna Friel bares all for Breakfast at Tiffanys

30.09.09
Anna Friel adopted a tough new fitness routine to prepare for the rigours of playing Forties society girl Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's.... more

Men are from Mars in Speaking in Tongues

29.09.09
Speaking in Tongues is a provoking comment on the strangled communication that occurs between men and women... more

Sienna Miller’s on prowl for a £2m pad in NY

05.08.09
Sienna Miller is looking to relocate to New York permanently and has instructed estate agents to find her a luxury Manhattan pad.... more

Sienna Miller reveals hair raising cost of GI Joe wig

03.08.09
Sienna Miller revealed today where some of the £200 million budget for her new film GI Joe: Rise Of The Cobra went - her wig. ... more

Stage success tastes so sweet for Menier Chocolate Factory

17.02.09
The tiny Menier Chocolate Factory theatre is to transfer its seventh production to the West End in just five years... more

Andrea Riseborough is the new iron lady

09.06.08
Bright young star Andrea Riseborough, who depicts a young Maggie on TV this week, has Thatcher to thank for her success in more ways than one.... more

Indy’s going to Cannes – but where are all the Brits?

24.04.08
Among the 19 names revealed for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival only two directors are flying Union Jacks.... more

A good night is on the cards

12.12.07
It is very difficult not to like Dealer's Choice, as Patrick Marber's 1995 play remains cool, funny and supremely accessible.... more

A blueprint for disaster

06.12.07
Anthony Neilson's God in Ruins at the Soho Theatre is shamefully bad, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Craig: British film industry no charity case

29.11.07
James Bond star Daniel Craig has launched a staunch defence of the British film industry saying it needs no special pleading.... more

The next big player

23.11.07
Stephen Wight fell into acting by accident - now his poker-playing waiter in Dealer's Choice, has put him in the running for Outstanding Newcomer at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

One pair bluffs a full house

04.10.07
If you go to see Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice, you can rest assured that this psychological poker comedy is a safe bet.... more

Worthy winners however you roll the dice

12.02.07
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How 007 made us love him

05.02.07
Bond, Borat and British cinema - our Evening Standard film awards judges reveal how they chose the winners.... more

There's nothing like this Dame

01.02.07
Give Judi Dench half a chance, and she'll make a lot more of a good role than almost any other actor. In Notes on a Scandal she gives a performance as powerful as it is subtle.... more

Dame Judi at her best

29.01.07
Whether she wins an Oscar or not, Dame Judi Dench's performance in exceptional British film Notes On A Scandal deserves to be accounted one of her best on screen, says Derek Malcolm.... more

The Queen leading British Oscar charge

23.01.07
Three British stars - Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Kate Winslet - will battle it out for best actress at this year's Oscars.... more

Olivier nominations in full

18.01.07
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Hollywood's new royalty

16.01.07
After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.... more

Will the Brits get the gongs?

21.12.06
British actors have put in some prizewinnning performances this year. They'll get Oscar nominations, just don't expect them all to win.... more

Dame Judi is riveting as a lonely old maid

19.12.06
Give Judi Dench half a chance, and she'll make a lot more of a good part than almost any other actress. But in Richard Eyre's very British Notes On A Scandal she excels herself. ... more

A most seductive Don Juan

07.12.06
Rhys Ifans stars in the title role in Patrick Marber's Don Juan In Soho, which gives the worst sex-addict in theatrical history a ravishing, thoroughly modern make-over.... more

Sex, death and Soho

05.12.06
Patrick Marber, author of an updated stage version of the Don Juan story, explains why he is drawn to characters living lives parallel to his own.... more

A bitch of a job for Dame Judi

05.10.06
Her latest role as a treacherous school teacher is something of a departure. But Judi Dench understands the character, she tells Mike Goodridge. ... more

Grandage just can't play it safe

25.08.06
Michael Grandage, director of the Donmar, has scored another hit with Frost/Nixon. But, he says, every new production leaves his playhouse standing on a knife-edge.... more

Standard awards Wintour

07.11.00
A new £30,000 prize for the most promising playwright is to be introduced at the Evening Standard Theatre awards later this month. The award is to be named in honour of the late Charles Wintour - former Standard editor and passionate theatre goer.... more

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