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New York salutes Billy Elliot as musical leads British charge with 10 Tony Awards

08.06.09
Billy Elliot was the toast of New York as Sir Elton John's musical picked up 10 Tony Awards, spearheading a triumphant night for British theatre... more

Spacey meets Darwin at Old Vic as clash over evolution hits the stage

05.06.09
Kevin Spacey will return to the Old Vic stage this autumn to star in Inherit The Wind, a drama inspired by a courtroom clash over the ideas of Charles Darwin... more

Three Billies in line for a Tony as musical gets 15 nominations

05.05.09
Billy Elliot, the Broadway musical based on the hit British film, has been nominated for 15 Tony Awards — more than any other show... more

Three Billies in line for a Tony as musical gets 15 nominations

05.05.09
Billy Elliot, the Broadway musical based on the hit British film, has been nominated for 15 Tony Awards — more than any other show... more

Acclaim for Ayckbourn trilogy as Norman conquers Broadway

24.04.09
Sir Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy The Norman Conquests has extended London theatre's invasion of Broadway, opening to phenomenal acclaim in New York... more

Olivier for playwright with fresh stage plans

09.03.09
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of Britain's most popular and prolific playwrights, is set to do more work in London after the huge success of his Norman Conquests trilogy at the Old Vic... more

A Night Out in London: Woman in Mind & Zizzi

20.02.09
Woman In Mind is the latest Alan Ayckbourn play to be staged in the West End. Make sure you see it and treat yourself to a great value dinner. ... more

Drag race for the Olivier awards

03.02.09
Drag-queen musical La Cage aux Folles leads the charge at this year's Olivier theatre awards... more

Ayckbourn trilogy to conquer the US

03.02.09
Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy The Norman Conquests is to transfer to Broadway directly following its critically acclaimed run in London... more

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

The 2008 ES Theatre Awards shortlist

24.11.08
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Hartnett is main man in Old Vic's 24 Hour Plays

11.11.08
Josh Hartnett, Martin Freeman, Dervla Kirwan and Jessica Hynes are four of the stars who will take part in this year's 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at the Old Vic... more

Co-stars in contest for best actress at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

07.11.08
Comedy co-stars Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack will go head to head for honours at this year's 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

Provocative play to spearhead new season at Old Vic

22.10.08
A provocative play about a journalist accused of espionage in the war on terror is to spearhead the new season at the Old Vic... more

How I laugh at the bad old Seventies

09.10.08
Revisiting your Seventies childhood is never rewarding. The frizzy perm, National Health glasses, the terrible moment when, aged 11, I realised that my mother had made up my school dress using a maternity sewing pattern (we were so poor, I had to wear it all summer with one of those ghastly elasticated nurse's belts). Just don't get me started... more

Old Vic gets round to staging Ayckbourn at last

25.09.08
It is London's oldest theatre as you have never seen it before, transformed for a production not staged in the city for a generation... more

Ayckbourn hits revived at Old Vic

15.05.08
The Old Vic is to be transformed into a theatre in the round to stage Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy, The Norman Conquests... more

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