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Cock is a prickly tale of sexual confusion

19.11.09

The title of Mike Bartlett's new play, Cock, may excite your inner punster, but the piece itself is far from being a trawl through tawdriness.... more

Evening Standard theatre awards: Rachel Weisz and Lenny Henry fight stage giants for top prize

09.11.09

Stars of the British stage including Rachel Weisz, Samuel West and Lenny Henry will battle it out at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

The Standard Theatre Awards 2009: Longlist revealed

02.11.09

Our longlist for the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards proves it has been 12 months of critical as well as commercial success.... more

Judgement Day is teasing the truth out of tragedy

11.09.09

Although this is not a studiously political piece, Judgement Day is obliquely concerned with fascism... more

The 2008 ES Theatre Awards shortlist

24.11.08

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Co-stars in contest for best actress at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

07.11.08

Comedy co-stars Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack will go head to head for honours at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Heavyweights of the stage battle for best actor prize

04.11.08

Kevin Spacey, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh are in the running for honours in this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Red and Brown Water crafts hit from myths

10.10.08

No piece of total theatre could have better lived up to the promise of its title than Tarell Alvin McCraney's In The Red and Brown Water.... more

Southern poetry floods In the Red and Brown Water

06.10.08

In the Red and Brown Water indicates Tarell Alvin McCraney�s willingness to toy with the conventions of stagecraft. ... more

Brecht given new bite

15.05.08

The Good Soul of Szechuan at the Young Vic makes an absolutely devastating impact in a production of stylised strangeness.... more

A bad trip in any language

07.03.08

The potential of the strangely compelling play, A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians, is best realised by reading it.... more

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist

31.10.07

A dazzling year of performances on the London stage will be honoured at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007. Here, for the first time, is the longlist. ... more

What an enjoyable tragedy

16.08.07

Greek tragedy has never been such fun as in The Bacchae, a play starring Alan Cumming as Dionysus.... more

No place to hide on parental battlefield

10.05.07

The unmissable My Child is a brutal, thrilling offering from the Royal Court Downstairs, a venue that is making itself urgent once more.... more

Reality fails to bite

21.08.06

Antony Neilson's Realism is like an Alan Ayckbourn comedy seen through the doped perspective of someone under the influence of a class-A drug, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

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