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David Suchet is back playing Poirot

2009-11-18T09:40:05Z

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

Back in the moral maze of daring to bare

2009-10-02T09:12:03Z

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

The power of opera, where giants dance on a tightrope

2009-06-05T07:27:19Z

Contrary to their public image, theatre people are surprisingly unsentimental

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

2009-06-04T09:13:19Z

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

Theatre

2008-10-02T10:15:37Z

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.

Television and Radio

2008-10-02T11:08:24Z

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.

Heidi Klumped at the Emmys

2008-09-22T11:24:46Z

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

It's not only sad sacks who marry late

2008-07-30T10:17:01Z

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.�

Greer should see Female of the Species

2008-07-28T23:00:00Z

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.

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

2008-07-28T13:35:00Z

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.

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

2008-07-17T18:48:09Z

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.

Female of species has mind of its own

2008-07-16T23:00:00Z

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

Your chance to vote first in TV's top awards

2008-07-05T18:47:02Z

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.

Chalk Garden in praise of older women

2008-06-22T23:00:00Z

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

From bonnets to bulletins, the BBC still does TV best

2008-04-22T08:10:24Z

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

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

2008-03-19T00:02:10Z

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

Comedy? You must be joking

2008-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

A sea of despair, farce and black comedy

2008-01-24T00:00:00Z

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

Acting trio to present our theatre awards

2007-11-23T10:28:46Z

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

Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist

2007-10-31T10:50:28Z

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.

DVDs of the week

2007-10-30T11:57:09Z

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.

Night that never ends

2007-09-19T23:00:00Z

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

Royal takes on Old Vic with in-house company

2007-07-09T09:50:02Z

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.

DVDs of the week

2007-03-13T12:48:48Z

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.

I'm very scared of being back on stage

2007-03-02T16:26:05Z

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.

An aimless gloomy Gypsy

2007-01-19T00:00:00Z

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.

Stars to announce our 52nd theatre awards

2006-11-20T09:15:13Z

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.

All-star cast is lost for words

2006-11-02T00:00:00Z

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.

Ewan's on a shoestring

2006-08-06T23:00:00Z

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.