A Peter Morgan drama, a Philip Glenister series, dressing up and down in Downton Abbey and another Killing: Steve Morrissey looks at the highlights of the new season... more
Stage stars called for subsidised theatre to be protected from planned "brutal cuts" as they marked an "outstanding year" at the Olivier Awards... more
The Evening Standard British Film Awards have been handed out but how did the judges on our panel arrive at their decisions? Here they explain their choices... more
VIDEO: The Best Film prize went to Peter Mullan's Neds, a coming-of-age drama about teenage gangs, at the Evening Standard British Film Awards for 2010... more
Rory Kinnear has been voted Best Actor at The Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his performance in two of Shakespeare’s most challenging roles — and his much-loved father would have been proud... more
Rebecca Hall highlighted the global standing of the London stage today as she prepared to take her place at the 56th Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more
She plays a “dumb blonde” who confounds her critics, and Sheridan Smith today confirmed that musical stars can hold their own in the drama stakes... more
Everyone’s at it as Gemma Arterton’s bombshell causes sexual havoc in the countryside in Tamara Drewe — if only they weren’t so British about it all... more
As Roger Allam becomes the latest actor to take on the role of Sir John Falstaff, Henry Hitchings explores the enduring appeal of Shakespeare’s ‘villainous abominable misleader of youth’.... more
John Barrowman is unrecognisable as dashing Captain Jack Harkness after slipping into a pair of high heels and a skimpy dress to promote his upcoming stint in La Cage aux Folles... more
Starring Emile Hersh and Susan Sarandon and created by the producers of the Matrix trilogy, this two-and-a-quarter-hour production fails to impress.... more
After 2002's award-winning Lawless Heart, directing duo Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter vanished. Now they're back with a very British tale. What took them so long?... more
Boeing Boeing is a traditional French farce based on bad-luck and unreliable aircraft. Nicholas de Jongh could not remember a West End evening of such sheer, silly, comic pleasure.... more
Time has not been altogether kind to Pravda. What once was a scathing farce that wittily shafted the British newspaper industry is now curiously dated, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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