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Comic questions in If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet

23.10.09
If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet is a fresh and rewarding piece, which suggests that Nick Payne is a writer to look out for.... more

Lily Cole leaps from the screen to stage in 24-hour whirlwind

08.10.09
Model Lily Cole is to make her stage debut hot on the heels of appearing in a film with the late Heath Ledger.... more

Fresh and sensitive voice in Apologia

23.06.09
Alexi Kaye Campbell's Apologia probes conventional ideas about parental responsibility in a manner that's both raw and very funny.... more

Wrecks lifts lid on shock

16.02.09
Wrecks, which played for a limited run in New York, disappointingly comes across as an off-cut, rather than top-drawer Neil LaBute.... more

Kevin Spacey speaks of pride at turning round the Old Vic

24.11.08
Kevin Spacey spoke with pride about his success in transforming the Old Vic as the Evening Standard celebrated the best of London theatre... more

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

Theatre

08.10.08
Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre. ... more

Secrets & hysteria: Tackling paedophilia on stage

17.06.08
Admirably avoiding moral simplicity, but let down by the miscasting of Joseph Fiennes, 2,000 Feet Away is a serious attempt to handle the tricky issue of sex offenders on stage.... more

Big issues writ very small

29.04.08
Promising elements to Tinderbox including, snappy direction from Josie Rourke, can't quite disguise the fact that its tone becomes increasingly uncertain.... more

Double dose of violence attacks our complacency

18.01.08
A frightening double-bill by American playwright Neil LaBute is further evidence of why the Arts Council's plan to cut the Bush Theatre's funding defies sense and outrages sensibility.... more

Too obscure to care

18.10.07
Fiona Mountford tried her best to like How to Curse at the Bush Theatre, but could not find anything in the obscure script to enjoy.... 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

Cattrall convinces in cryptic role

18.10.06
The prime reason for reviving David Mamet's distinctly minor play must be Kim Cattrall's eagerness to appear in it. Her decision to do so seems even stranger than The Cryptogram itself.... more

The return of the king

04.08.06
Theatre review: It is not hard to see why the RSC has produced the intriguingly off-kilter King John just four times. Described by one commentator as "the runt in the litter", it lacks the welcome comic relief of the other history plays.... more

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