Kara Tointon won last year's Strictly Come Dancing thanks to polished routines. She now brings some of the same hardworking assurance to her West End debut, in George Bernard Shaw's classic Pygmalion... more
Today's Tube strike has already yielded two inevitable results. It has played havoc with the working lives of Londoners and has brought out an indomitable can-do spirit in thwarted commuters... more
City Editor's Comment: George Bernard Shaw said: “The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law." He could have been talking about Cazenove... more
Belle de Jour scandal is evidence that Britain is as hypocritical in its attitude towards sex as it was 100 years ago, says actress Felicity Kendal... more
The influential critic Roger Fry set up the Omega Workshops to apply his ideas about art to everyday objects — but the Bloomsbury artists he employed were woeful craftsmen... more
The Topolski Century tells the story of the 20th century as you've never been told it before but you may need a guided tour to get the most from it.
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A Chinese-born dissident was jailed for a minimum of 20 years for beating an 86-year-old author to death, after a historic Old Bailey trial partly held in secret... more
George Bernard Shaw declared Little Dorrit "a more seditious book than Das Kapital"; George Orwell said that "in Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached". This Sunday the BBC kicks off its 14-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens story adapted for the screen by Andrew Davies. ... more
New exhibition Jack the Ripper and the East End tempers press and police material with videos of contemporary talking heads discussing prostitution, poverty and murder.... more
After a moving revival of St Joan and an effective staging of the caustic but problematic Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion comes to town.... more
Lady Antonia Fraser complains that the British Library Reading Room has become overrun by undergraduates who are hogging all the desks. Her fellow historian Tristram Hunt bemoans the fact it is now a "groovy place" to meet for a frappuccino. Many feared that when the old Reading Room closed, the British Library would lose its charm. Far from it. It has become more fashionable than ever as a social venue... more
Prominent authors have complained that two the British Library's Reading Room has been overtaken by frappuccino drinking students giggling with their friends, playing on laptops and texting their mates.... more
Simon Russell Beale, the average-looking actor with an above average amount of talent, talks to Claire Allfree about getting to the emotional core of the characters he plays.... more
Anne-Marie Duff claims she was 'the runt of the year' at drama school - but now she has picked up the Evening Standard Best Actress prize for her astonishing portrayal of Saint Joan.... more
The cast of Indhu Rubasingham's perfectly decent revival of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House struggle as characters move from comic types to wider significance.... more
George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara is well revived at the Orange Tree and the audience never feels far from murderous gunfire in Sam Walters's production.... more
Despite his limited palette and deliberately banal subject matter, photographer Emil Otto Hoppé can and does manage to extract drama from the mundane, says Nina Caplan.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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