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Audience on their feet to sing the praises of Jerusalem's star

23.11.09
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

Our winners set Standards for theatre accolades

20.11.09
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

Mother Courage and her Children is epic theatre

28.09.09
Mother Courage and her Children is a competent, confident, if ultimately underwhelming reading of one of the trickiest masterpieces of 20th-century theatre... more

Opening this week in London

14.09.09
Ben Hur! is brought back to life at the O2, Coldplay, Jay-Z and Girls Aloud perform at Wembley and see the first night of Mother Courage and her Children ... more

Power lesbians: The female celebs who are out and proud

24.08.09
Mary Portas and her glamorous journalist girlfriend are just two of a new generation of female celebrities who are out and proud... more

Rachel Hurd-Wood: a modern gothic starlet

21.08.09
To date, Rachel Hurd-Wood's bodice has been ripped by Ben Whishaw, Ben Barnes and James Purefoy, and she's still only 19. Hettie Harvey meets costume drama's newest discovery... ... more

North Korea ‘going postal’ is truly scary

29.05.09
As the North Korea story unfolds, I wonder whether we are watching a nuclear state going postal. This is very scary stuff indeed... more

Ten years late, this lesbian icon is the right poet for the nation

01.05.09
After considerable dithering and havering, Carol Ann Duffy has agreed to take on the position of Poet Laureate... more

Macbeth, Oliver! and now Puccini... theatre director Goold signs up to ENO

02.04.09
Award-winning director Rupert Goold, 36, is to direct Turandot in the English National Opera's next season ... more

Wave of emotion in Riders to the Sea

28.11.08
Death permeates Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea, and it hovers tragically over English National Opera’s production.... more

Conductor Richard Hickox dies at 60

24.11.08
Richard Hickox has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 60, four days before he was due to conduct a new production at English National Opera... more

Defending National Portrait Gallery

10.06.08
Evening Standard art critic Brian Sewell has questioned the point of the National Portrait Gallery. Here its director Sandy Nairne fights back.... more

Bring some romance into choosing our Poet Laureate

20.05.08
In some ways, Andrew Motion has been the perfect Poet Laureate. As a poet, Motion has never shown the tiniest inkling of talent at any point in his career - and this lucky chance has freed him to perform the public duties of the laureateship without anybody worrying that he is betraying his genius... more

Has Saffron Burrows got the trout pout to end all trout pouts?

04.03.08
She's a 35-year-old actress whose good looks have won her many admirers and a previous career as a model. However it seems Saffron Burrows has gone one giant step too far in her attempt to achieve fuller lips and ended up with possibly the world's worst trout pout. It was hard not notice the British-born beauty's 'bee-stung lips' as she attended the premiere of her latest movie, The Bank Job, in New York ... more

Hairspray collects record award nominations

07.02.08
West End hit Hairspray has received a record 11 nominations at the Laurence Olivier 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

Stars join 'madness' of 24-Hour Plays gala

24.10.07
A cast including Christian Slater, Ronni Ancona, Rob Brydon, and Fiona Shaw are to take up the challenge of creating and presenting six plays in 24 hours to raise money for the Old Vic.... more

Theatre wars - the dead white male hits back

15.05.07
The National's director Nicholas Hytner has attacked London's theatre critics for their alleged misogyny. The Standard's man in the stalls could not disagree more.... more

Rankin gives South Bank a facelift

27.02.07
A giant frieze featuring some of London's most influential cultural figures is to be unveiled outside the Royal Festival Hall.... more

Too crudely comic for Beckett's wasteland

25.01.07
Nicholas de Jongh thought Fiona Shaw would be perfect for the role of Winnie in Beckett's Happy Days but her performance at the Lyttelton has sadly proved him wrong.... more

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