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A winning year for leading lights of the London stage

25.11.08
A 100-year History Cycle and an Othello reinvented, a vivacious newcomer and a brace of best actresses — our judges explain why they chose the winners of the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Donmar dominates the London stage at ES Theatre Awards

24.11.08
The Donmar Warehouse, one of the smallest venues in the West End, has stormed the Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Heavyweights of the stage battle for best actor prize

04.11.08
Kevin Spacey, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh are in the running for honours in this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Crowds go wild for Hartnett's Rain Man

22.09.08
Whenever Hollywood star Josh Hartnett finishes a performance of Rain Man, a crowd of a hundred or more is standing to thank him for taking the time... more

Can, my dear, Gone With The Wind survive?

25.04.08
The critics have savaged Trevor Nunn's £4.75m Gone With the Wind. How did such a shambles make it to the stage? And can it survive such a mauling?... more

Look back in laughter at a dark knight in history

03.03.08
Standard critic Nicholas de Jongh's first play explores ignorance and intolerance in the Fifties.... 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

The return of the King

20.11.07
The West End transfer of Sir Ian McKellen's debut as King Lear is already a sell-out.... more

Joan of Arc fights Billie

07.11.07
Anne-Marie Duff is shortlisted in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her impassioned Joan of Arc against Billie Piper's stage debut in Treats.... more

Too much talent on London stage for a shortlist

31.10.07
A dazzling year of performances on the London stage will be honoured at the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

Brothers are rivals for love and rave reviews

01.08.07
South African mezzo-soprano Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi may be the star of Carmen Jones, but the rivalry between two brothers from New Cross steals the show.... more

A heavenly triumph of kitsch and camp

18.07.07
Lee Mead, winner of the BBC's Any Dream Will Do, flaunts quite the smallest ego of any Joseph Nicholas de Jongh has seen.... more

The man bringing Baghdad to Soho

10.07.07
Every now and again a play comes out of nowhere and hijacks the public imagination. Nick Curtis talks to Hassan Abdulrazzak whose debut work Baghdad Wedding is such a play.... 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

Now theatre critics are panned

14.05.07
The head of the National Theatre has launched an astonishing attack on critics as "dead white men".... more

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