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Love 'em or ban 'em, you can't keep the hoodie down

22.10.09

If you like high fashion, hoods are good. Hoods and snoods are �in� this autumn: the catwalk tells us so... more

Take 'history' by artists with a big pinch of salt

09.10.09

Hilary Mantel�s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel�s disservice to history... more

The play's the thing, as theatres rediscover drama this autumn

16.09.09

Londoners are being invited to make the play the thing this autumn as a cavalcade of stars prepares to tread the boards... more

First review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

07.07.09

The sixth instalment of the Harry Potter saga is a slickly unemotional affair with a host of special effects.... more

Harry Potter star overcomes swine flu to attend screening

06.07.09

Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint recovered from a bout of swine flu to attend a screening of the new film.... 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

The Funeral, written, cast and directed by Harold Pinter

31.12.08

Theatrical great Harold Pinter directed his final work - as his funeral took place in accordance with his wishes... more

Sir Cameron tops theatre's influentials list for 2008

31.12.08

Cameron Mackintosh tops the list of the most influential people in British theatre... more

The Sheekey girls

26.11.08

For decades, theatre stars of the Fifties and Sixties have stared out from the walls of J Sheekey's restaurant in the West End... more

Walliams dazzles in No Man's Land

08.10.08

No Man's Land is chilling, thrilling Pinter in dream-land, relieved by flashes of sardonic amusement. ... more

Stop bashing Brideshead

02.10.08

It's unfair to compare Julian Jarrold's version of Brideshead Revisited to the classic TV series � but if only he'd taken more risks. ... more

Walliams gets himself a blonde & a takeaway

30.09.08

David Walliams wasn't too happy when he was spotted taking this pretty blonde back to his house in Primrose Hill. ... more

Brideshead is hurriedly revisited

30.09.08

After more than 60 years, Brideshead Revisited has finally made it to the big screen in a thoughtful and handsomely mounted adaptation. ... more

No Man's Land was made for the Great Gambon

29.09.08

The Great Gambon (as Ralph Richardson dubbed him) returns to Pinter in a new production of No Man�s Land directed by the w�nderkind Rupert Goold, whose interpretation of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart proved such a hit.... 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

Revisited Brideshead is no match for TV ancestor

07.08.08

Much-anticipated new interpretation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited becomes consumed with nostalgia for the Granada series.... more

Sneak peek: Ron Weasley collapses after swallowing poison in new Harry Potter trailer

30.07.08

Eager fans awaiting the new Harry Potter film have been given a glimpse of the first official trailer, and it's set to be the darkest movie in the series yet.... more

Sneak peek: First look at new Harry Potter film as Hogwarts students go back to school

04.07.08

The Harry Potter trio are back to save Hogwarts from dark forces in the eagerly anticipated sixth film in the series.... more

Walliams in the West End for ... (pause) Pinter

03.07.08

David Walliams is to make his West End debut alongside Michael Gambon in a new production of a Harold Pinter classic... 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

Barely earning his crust

28.02.08

Any film starring Damian Lewis ought to be worth seeing but you are never sure whether The Baker is comedy or farce and it tries the patience a bit.... more

Who's in and who's out?

25.02.08

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Dumbledore and the bed chamber of secrets: Sir Michael Gambon's m�nage � trois with his wife and (much) younger lover

22.02.08

Weekends with his wife at their �4million country manor in Kent. Weekdays with the lover 25 years his junior, who's had his child. Welcome to Harry Potter star Sir Michael Gambon's m�nage � trois... more

Outshone by the stars

02.01.08

Bookings at Le Caf� Anglais are already as hard to get as a Nintendo Wii, and it looks like it's going to emulate the owners previous success.... more

Harry gets his girl

12.07.07

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the darkest of the series yet but should still satisfy its hardened fanbase... more

Guts and gravitas

22.03.07

Amazing Grace may not be an outstanding success, but it is hardly a failure. It gives a good idea of the horrors of the slave trade, and deals with the parliamentary debates without boring.... more

Sublime comedy of alienation

19.03.07

Jamie Lloyd's pitch-perfect production of The Caretaker serves renewed notice that Harold Pinter has written nothing more likely to survive as a classic of post-war British theatre.... more

Secrets and lies of the early CIA

22.02.07

Robert De Niro's history of the CIA, The Good Shepherd, is not a film everyone will like. Those that do will appreciate his insistence on accurate detail, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Does betrayal destroy humanity?

12.02.07

Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, his second feature as director, is arguably too long and sometimes repetitious, but it remains intriguing throughout, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Helena lands Potter role

02.08.06

Film news: Helena Bonham Carter has won the role of evil Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange in the next Harry Potter film. The 40-year-old star will play one of Lord Voldemort's followers in the forthcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.... more