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

2009-10-22T07:55:45Z

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

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

2009-10-09T08:13:09Z

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

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

2009-09-16T08:32:08Z

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

First review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009-07-06T23:00:00Z

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

Harry Potter star overcomes swine flu to attend screening

2009-07-06T12:46:42Z

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

Drag race for the Olivier awards

2009-02-03T08:58:16Z

Drag-queen musical La Cage aux Folles leads the charge at this year's Olivier theatre awards

The Funeral, written, cast and directed by Harold Pinter

2008-12-31T09:17:32Z

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

Sir Cameron tops theatre's influentials list for 2008

2008-12-31T08:53:37Z

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

The Sheekey girls

2008-11-26T08:30:49Z

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

Walliams dazzles in No Man's Land

2008-10-07T23:00:00Z

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

Stop bashing Brideshead

2008-10-01T23:00:00Z

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.

Walliams gets himself a blonde & a takeaway

2008-09-30T14:24:24Z

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

Brideshead is hurriedly revisited

2008-09-29T23:00:00Z

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

No Man's Land was made for the Great Gambon

2008-09-28T23:00:00Z

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.

Old Vic gets round to staging Ayckbourn at last

2008-09-25T07:38:17Z

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

Revisited Brideshead is no match for TV ancestor

2008-08-06T23:00:00Z

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

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

2008-07-30T08:37:01Z

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.

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

2008-07-04T10:44:59Z

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

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

2008-07-03T13:24:29Z

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

Ayckbourn hits revived at Old Vic

2008-05-15T07:50:21Z

The Old Vic is to be transformed into a theatre in the round to stage Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy, The Norman Conquests

Barely earning his crust

2008-02-28T00:00:00Z

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.

Who's in and who's out?

2008-02-25T09:40:07Z

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

2008-02-22T23:57:28Z

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

Outshone by the stars

2008-01-02T00:00:00Z

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.

Harry gets his girl

2007-07-11T23:00:00Z

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

Guts and gravitas

2007-03-22T00:00:00Z

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.

Sublime comedy of alienation

2007-03-19T00:00:00Z

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.

Secrets and lies of the early CIA

2007-02-22T00:00:00Z

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.

Does betrayal destroy humanity?

2007-02-12T00:00:00Z

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.

Helena lands Potter role

2006-08-01T23:00:00Z

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.