Rory Kinnear has been voted Best Actor at The Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his performance in two of Shakespeare’s most challenging roles — and his much-loved father would have been proud... more
I’m not telling you how to raise your child …” These words, as every new parent knows, are one of the great lies of all time; serving as the unvarying preface to every well-meaning, passive-aggressive piece of advice you will ever receive... more
He was raised in a strange Christian cult and dates a taxidermist. No wonder, then, that Mat Collishaw is fêted as the most macabre of the YBAs... more
JB Priestley’s 1949 collection of short essays about things that delighted him has been updated by the members of the London Library. From girl bands to Bexhill-on-Sea, here six of them reveal their secret delights...... more
A former civil servant who wrote an Internet blog detailing the kidnap, rape and murder of the pop group Girls Aloud walked free from court after being cleared in a landmark case... more
A civil servant is being prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act for a blog in which he allegedly details the kidnap and murder of Girls Aloud... more
Tennessee Williams wrote The Rose Tattoo when he was happy and, creatively speaking, happiness did not suit him. Nicholas de Jongh could see why the play has only been revived twice in 49 years.... more
Tennessee Williams's Summer And Smoke has been rediscovered on the London stage but actress Rosamund Pike is a little too serene for the role of a sexually desolate preacher's daughter.... 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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