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David Suchet is back playing Poirot

18.11.09
After 21 years playing super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, David Suchet returns with one of Agatha Christie's best-known works. ... more

Back in the moral maze of daring to bare

02.10.09
Here we go again. The very week a nude photograph of actress Brooke Shields aged 10 has been removed from a Tate Modern exhibition, on police advice, we have Anna Friel appearing naked on the West End stage... more

The power of opera, where giants dance on a tightrope

05.06.09
Contrary to their public image, theatre people are surprisingly unsentimental... more

VIDEO: Watch Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson at Last Chance Harvey premiere

04.06.09
Old romantic Dustin Hoffman planted a smacker on his co-star Emma Thompson when they were reunited at the premiere of Last Chance Harvey.... more

Theatre

08.10.08
Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre. ... more

Television and Radio

08.10.08
London still exports hit formats all over the world and is a hothouse for the use of new technologies in tandem with traditional creative talents. ... more

Heidi Klumped at the Emmys

22.09.08
Supermodel Heidi Klum showed the world she's not just a pretty face after a bruising moment at the Emmys.... more

It's not only sad sacks who marry late

30.07.08
Amid the fuss over actress Dame Eileen Atkins's candid interview in this week's Radio Times, what gripped me was her recipe for a successful relationship: “I haven't been unfaithful, but only because we married when I was 43.”... more

Greer should see Female of the Species

29.07.08
Germaine Greer may be ridiculous and contrary but she can also be an incisive critic. She should see The Female of the Species - and demolish it properly, says Louise Jury.... more

Actress Dame Eileen Atkins lets rip about ladettes, families and political correctness

28.07.08
She can convey her utter disgust with a single haughty look. And Dame Eileen Atkins is not so bad at the withering verbal putdown either.... more

Dame Judi Dench and Ricky Gervais lead British nominees at Emmy Awards

17.07.08
BBC costume drama Cranford has received eight Emmy nominations, while Ricky Gervais's Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale got six, it was announced today.... more

Female of species has mind of its own

17.07.08
Wickedly clever, the Female Of The Species is deadly funny and makes for an evening of educated and reactionary amusement.... more

Your chance to vote first in TV's top awards

05.07.08
It's the most glittering - and nail-biting - date in the awards ceremony calendar, and a true litmus test of popular taste. And today we are proud to announce that Mail on Sunday readers will be the first to cast their vote for the National Television Awards... the only TV honours to be handed direct from the viewer to the star. ... more

Chalk Garden in praise of older women

23.06.08
Michael Grandage's wonderful revival of Enid Bagnold’s The Chalk Garden proves women's acting careers don't have to end at 40.... more

From bonnets to bulletins, the BBC still does TV best

22.04.08
The Baftas have been and gone, and the ugly masks have been put on the mantelpieces... more

Cranford's Bafta bonanza: Dame Judi receives record 24th Bafta nomination

19.03.08
She has had plenty of practice making acceptance speeches over the years. But Dame Judi Dench, 73, may have to reel off the list of thank yous once again after receiving a record 24th Bafta nomination. She is up for the best actress prize for her role in BBC series Cranford, along with her co-star Dame Eileen Atkins, also 73 ... more

Comedy? You must be joking

07.02.08
The Sea is worth seeing for Eileen Atkins, but then her character is the only one that pursues a coherent course through the play.... more

A sea of despair, farce and black comedy

24.01.08
Jonathan Kent's revival of absurd black comedy The Sea, oscillates abruptly between farce, comedy and despair.... more

Acting trio to present our theatre awards

23.11.07
Actors Simon Russell Beale, Dame Eileen Atkins and Sophie Okonedo will hand out prizes at the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... 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

DVDs of the week

30.10.07
Bruce Willis is brill in Die Hard 4.0, Oasis are really dreary, and French comedy Poltergay is camper than a poodle on roller skates.... more

Night that never ends

20.09.07
Evening is a story of gilded youth making a fool of itself by not taking its chances for happiness.... more

Royal takes on Old Vic with in-house company

09.07.07
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is re-launching itself as a West End rival to Kevin Spacey's Old Vic, establishing an in-house company to produce full seasons.... more

DVDs of the week

13.03.07
Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth, Helen Mirren's Oscar-winning performance as the Queen and magical thriller The Prestige all come to DVD this week.... more

I'm very scared of being back on stage

02.03.07
Maggie Smith returns to the West End in an Edward Albee play that hasn't been revived since its disastrous Broadway premiere. After five decades of acting, the fear, she says, is just as bad.... more

An aimless gloomy Gypsy

19.01.07
Thank heaven for Eileen Atkins, says Nicholas de Jongh. She's the only one who breathes life and black comedy into There Came A Gypsy Riding.... more

Stars to announce our 52nd theatre awards

20.11.06
Jeremy Irons, Kathy Burke and Alan Cumming are among the stars who will take leading roles at the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at The Savoy next Monday.... more

All-star cast is lost for words

02.11.06
Director Ed Blum has collected a pretty good cast for Scenes Of A Sexual Nature. Unfortunately he has given them little or nothing to do.... more

Ewan's on a shoestring

07.08.06
Film news: For a first-time director working on a shoestring budget, the cast is impressive. But Ewan McGregor, Sophie Okonedo and Dame Eileen Atkins have all accepted the minimum actors' wage to appear in an independent film set on Hampstead Heath.... more

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