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Historic Phoenix cinema rises with lottery cash

09.07.09
Britain's oldest continuously-working cinema is to be restored to its art deco glory thanks to a lottery grant... more

Our apartheid adoption rules leave the black child in care

09.04.09
For weeks now we’ve been talking about whether Madonna should be allowed to adopt a Malawian child — and discreetly ignoring the adoption scandal here, right in front of us... more

A Little Night Music goes west

08.04.09
On transfer to the West End, A Little Night Music leaves Nicholas de Jongh far less than enraptured. ... more

Stage success tastes so sweet for Menier Chocolate Factory

17.02.09
The tiny Menier Chocolate Factory theatre is to transfer its seventh production to the West End in just five years... more

A Little Night Music is exceptionally ravishing

04.12.08
Trevor Nunn's dream-struck, elegantly scaled-down production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music is a serious delight.... more

Dr Who joins our theatre awards cast

21.11.08
David Tennant is to join this year's star-studded Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

The rotten borough of Haringey?

21.11.08
The dreadful death of Baby P has brought the wrath of the nation down on one London locality, already notorious for Victoria Climbie. But a leading expert says there are hundreds of other children across London who could suffer the same tragic fate... more

Stars in their eyes: Host of celebrities auction specs for sight-saving charity

14.08.08
They have perched on the noses of politicians and poets. They have graced the famous faces of pop singers and Hollywood superstars.... more

The only woman to get out of Midsomer alive: Detective Barnaby's daughter bows out of ITV show after 12 years

05.07.08
TV’s DCI Barnaby gives his daughter away – but in real life she still hasn’t found her ideal man.... more

Clinic's first surgical cure for migraines

27.06.08
A London clinic is offering British migraine sufferers a surgical cure for the first time... more

Even Chekhov threw it out

27.05.08
Philip Franks's mildewed production of The Cherry Orchard neither grows nor flowers but droops through four arid acts, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

The queen of the new King's Head

11.03.08
When Dan Crawford died in 2005 the future looked grim for the King's Head. Now his widow, Stephanie, has turned around the fortunes of London's original pub theatre.... more

Stoppard and Pinter set for Gala

20.02.08
Undettered by their ban in their own country, the Belarus Free Theatre is hosting a star-studded double bill tonight.... more

Stars back theatre group banned in their homeland

20.02.08
Sir Tom Stoppard will host a gala tonight in support of a theatre company banned in its home country... more

Oddball tales and old gags for Linda

29.10.07
Jo Brand, Jeremy Hardy, John Shuttleworth and John Hegley were among those taking part in a chaotic tribute to Linda Smith.... more

National honours 100 years of Larry Olivier

24.09.07
A hundred years after the birth of Sir Laurence Olivier, stars including Richard Attenborough, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Antony Sher, Samuel West, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Anne-Marie Duff honoured him.... more

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