As Conor McPherson brings his most ambitious play yet to the National Theatre, Liz Hoggard finds out how he got in touch with his feminine side to write for a new audience... more
Hollywood now beckons for Blackheath-raised actress Sally Hawkins — thanks to a new film about women car workers on strike. Liz Hoggard meets her.... more
Three major productions with a black lead actor are playing to packed houses in London. The days of token casting may finally be over, says Nosheen Iqbal.... more
Native cultures have long been an obsession of actor Mark Rylance — now he has assembled
a star-studded cast to raise awareness of endangered tribes.... more
A sure sign of impending public spending gloom is a letter to The Times from a gallery of “names” demanding special exemption for “the arts”. Sure enough it has come, and from so many signatories that the paper could not list them all... more
London theatre hailed a new generation of young playwrights today in Olivier Award nominations which also recognise one of the starriest years in West End history... more
As Keira Knightley prepares to make her stage debut and Ben Whishaw sells out the Royal Court, the signs are good, says Matt Wolf, for a theatrical boomtime.
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The audience rose in a standing ovation as Fiona Shaw announced Mark Rylance, with whom she had studied at Rada, as best actor for his lead role in Jerusalem... more
Former winners Patrick Stewart, Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale will be handing out the honours to new victors at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards next week... more
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
Among the delights of the London Transport Museum's forthcoming Suburbia exhibition is a 1930s poster suggesting a journey to the northern reaches of the Piccadilly line. Why?
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Eyebrows were raised when Prince Andrew's one-time friend, billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, was released six months early from his 18-month prison sentence in Florida for procuring underage girls ... more
In Jez Butterworth's energetic new play, Jerusalem, William Blake's vision of “England’s green and pleasant land” is transmuted into a fiesta of misrule. ... 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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