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
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.
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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