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The 12 shows you must see in London this Christmas

11.11.09
From posh panto to burlesque, London is full of festive entertainment. Here are a dozen shows that should entice children — and adults — into the theatre.... more

'Friends' given a Viennese Whirl in Pains of Youth

29.10.09
Although Pains of Youth's erotic charge has been extravagantly talked up, it is about as sexy as a cold hip bath.... more

Virgin birth needs divine inspiration in Parthenogenesis

12.06.09
Musically, it's great but you can't call Parthenogenesis drama, says Kieron Quirke.... more

Chill winds and prose in Katie Mitchell's One Evening

04.06.09
To appreciate this presentation of Schubert's Winterreise you have to accept that the music is just one element of a reflection on the cycle.... more

A young person's guide to the opera

13.05.09
Not only has Edward Gardner, ENO's 34-year-old music director, scored another hit with Peter Grimes this week - he's leading a cultural revolution... more

After Dido given multi-media makeover

17.04.09
ENO's experimental collaboration with the Young Vic last season proved so successful that the two have joined forces again for After Dido.... more

My part may be over but theatre goes from strength to strength

17.04.09
As he makes his exit after almost 18 years at the Standard, our theatre critic calls for the London stage to be given the bright future it so richly deserves... more

Booming voices in Doctor Atomic

26.02.09
John Adams's latest opera Doctor Atomic has a savage beauty and explosive climax, leaving questions open.... more

Four Quartets audience held in rapt silence

16.01.09
Stephen Dillane delivers a performance of riveting purity, under Katie Mitchell’s inspired direction in Four Quartets.... more

In Blood gives Euripides a kicking

12.01.09
Euripides called for the balance between the cerebral and sensualas that In Blood: Bacchae offers. ... more

The 2008 ES Theatre Awards shortlist

24.11.08
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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

Mark Pamore and Britten Sinfonia provide brilliance

28.10.08
The evening was devised by tenor Mark Padmore who is gaining a parallel reputation as a programme maker of imagination and perception. ... more

Poetry in motion for TS Eliot Festival

15.10.08
The celebration of the work of modernist poet, playwright and critic TS Eliot is ambitious even by the Donmar's standards.... 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

Capturing the big bad Woolf

20.08.08
If ever there was a work suited to the theatre director Katie Mitchell's distinctive style of radical reinterpretation it is Virginia Woolf's The Waves, starting its second National Theatre run.... more

Whishaw caught in portrayal of betrayal

31.07.08
Katie Mitchell's latest production, ...some trace of her, leaves Nicholas de Jongh bemused, confused and deeply unenthused.... more

City couple caught in an imaginary apocalypse

30.04.08
Deciphering the meaning of Martin Crimp's The City is a process that intrigues and mystifies, irritates and engrosses.... more

Timeless vision of war

29.11.07
Nicholas de Jongh was bewitched by Katie Mitchell's Women of Troy, which recreates the classic Greek tragedy using smart English ladies flaunting their 1940s finery.... more

Daring to be different

20.11.07
Despite the controversy caused by her last production, theatre director Katie Mitchell is pulling no punches with her interpretation of Women Of Troy.... more

Rich melodies

15.11.07
There are nearly three hours of impassioned, richly melodic music in James MacMillan's The Sacrifice, excellently performed by a fine cast.... more

Brilliant Bach fired with contemporary passion

02.07.07
The choice of Katie Mitchell to direct St Matthew Passion at the Glyndebourne Festival ensured an originality to this sacred masterpiece... more

Opera, my new love and me

02.07.07
When Gus Christie's marriage collapsed, there were fears that the Glyndebourne festival would suffer. But he has bounced back and the festival is better than ever.... 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

Family misfortunes

05.04.07
Rory Bremner seems to have relished his move from politics, translating to the stage with breezy farce and a generous dollop of cynical social satire in this Brecht double bill.... more

An Attempt that tries too hard

15.03.07
Frantic on-stage activity distracts from what is said and done in Attempts on her Life, making Martin Crimp's satirical panorama hard to understand.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 plays

21.11.06
The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more

Fixated by this brilliant adaptation

20.11.06
The Waves, Virginia Woolf's beautiful, modernist prose-poem of a novel, has been adapted for the stage and the result is compelling, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

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