In an outstanding year for London theatre, our judging panel have picked out the most remarkable performances and productions. The choices reflect the explosion of young talent emerging alongside theatre grandees who are at the top of their game... more
Four years after winning the Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright Award for her debut drama Rabbit, Nina Raine has avoided second-play syndrome with style for Tribes... more
The long-awaited adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s disturbing story of a father and son on the run has received its world premiere. It’s been one hell of a trip, writer Joe Penhall tells Nick Roddick... more
When Harry Michell was refused permission to stage Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot in a public lavatory by the playwright's estate he wanted revenge... more
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.
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Peter O'Toole's Oscar-nominated role in Venus, a strong take on terrorism in Catch A Fire and a compilation from Roxy Music are among the DVDs of the week.... more
Harold Pinter casts a rare, revealing eye on adultery and its companion, mendacity, in Betrayal, his indelibly fine account of a triangular love affair in Seventies literary London.... more
Joe Penhall's Landscape With Weapon about the moral responsibility of a weapons designer requires far too much suspending of disbelief and doubt-swallowing, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
The explosion of interest in Harold Pinter plays has reached a new level with the Donmar Warehouse announcing a revival of adultery drama Betrayal.... more
Fine acting performances can't transcend Venus, a film that hovers between near farce and tragi-comedy without ever landing on a convincing level.... more
Any film with Peter O'Toole and Leslie Phillips ought at least to have a modicum of entertainment in it and Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi's comedy Venus certainly has that.... more
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