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The hip doctor: Matt Smith's rock 'n' roll life with Daisy Lowe

08.10.10
Matt Smith dates London's hottest lingerie model, takes road trips with the Arctic Monkeys and time-travels for the BBC. Not bad for a failed professional footballer from Northampton, says Hermione Eyre... more

Why this is a great age of theatre

02.12.09
As Keira Knightley prepares to make her stage debut and Ben Whishaw sells out the Royal Court, the signs are good, says Matt Wolf, for a theatrical boomtime. ... more

Dr Who faces terrifying new creature in one-off special

10.07.09
The Doctor encounters a creature with black lips and a bad skin problem in the new episode of Doctor Who... more

Julie calls for more women’s roles on TV

27.02.09
Top performers led by Julie Walters, Simon Callow, Charles Dance and David Soul are calling for more roles for women on television... more

Maggie’s back – but this drama misses what made her great

25.02.09
A BBC account of the fall of Margaret Thatcher, starting tomorrow, sheds little light on a PM who still fascinates us... 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

Bond girl Gemma to play Tess Of The d'Urbevilles as TV turns back to costume dramas

20.08.08
It is a truth universally acknowledged - especially among female viewers - that you can never have too many costume dramas. ... more

What's new on television this autumn? Austen, Hardy and Dickens

20.08.08
You could call them credit crunch classics - reliable dramas for worrying times... more

Pictured: Lindsay Duncan as Margaret Thatcher in new TV series

31.07.08
Lindsay Duncan appears to have captured the likeness of Lady Thatcher in the first pictures from the new BBC drama about her.... more

Barristers complain that BBC drama puts them in dock

03.07.08
A war of words has erupted between the writer of the BBC's latest drama and the head of the Bar Council over the programme's portrayal of barristers... more

Spellbinding tale of confused smother love

12.05.08
Amazing performances seal the success for That Face; 21-year-old Polly Stenham's play about a twisted family and incest.... more

That face to watch

06.05.08
After a sensational run at the Royal Court a debut play by a young writer comes to the West End — and it’s set to make a star out of Matt Smith.... more

Actress who stripped off in Rome is set to play Margaret Thatcher in TV drama

08.04.08
Lindsay Duncan, whose screen credits include Rome and Star Wars, has been confirmed to play Margaret Thatcher in a BBC2 drama about the former prime minister. The new programme, titled Margaret, will follow the Conservative leader's final days in office and the betrayal by her male Cabinet colleagues in 1990 ... more

21-year-old's first play hits West End

18.02.08
A first play by a 21-year-old writer is to transfer to the West End... more

21-year-old's first play hits West End

18.02.08
A sellout first play by 21-year-old writer Polly Stenham is to transfer to the West End.... more

Polly's dramatic debut

26.11.07
Polly Stenham's first play, That Face, caused a sensation at the Royal Court. Now, two years after leaving school, she is nominated for the Charles Wintour Most Promising Playwright Award.... more

Class acts

31.10.07
The longlists for the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards are testimony to the strength of London's theatre - and the excellence of the actors.... more

National honours 100 years of Larry Olivier

24.09.07
A hundred years after the birth of Sir Laurence Olivier, stars including Richard Attenborough, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Antony Sher, Samuel West, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Anne-Marie Duff honoured him.... more

Promising debut

24.04.07
That Face is an immensely promising drama of affluent yet dysfunctional family life from 20-year-old Polly Stenham.... more


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