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Rachel Weisz mesmerizes in magical Streetcar Named Desire

29.07.09

This production has both realism and magic, and makes A Streetcar Named Desire seem a resonantly modern tragedy.... more

No denying strength of Jude Law's Hamlet

04.06.09

Jude Law's is not a funny Hamlet, but he possesses both self-lacerating candour and romantic dash.... more

Sex, drugs and frocks for de Sade

19.03.09

Few more weird or perverse straight plays than Yukio Mishima's Madame de Sade can have hit the staid West End stage this century.... more

Forbidden lust in A View From the Bridge

06.02.09

Lindsay Posner's menacing production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge provides a shocking, emotional dynamic.... more

Drag race for the Olivier awards

03.02.09

Drag-queen musical La Cage aux Folles leads the charge at this year's Olivier theatre awards... more

Grandage, the one-man hit machine

11.12.08

After the triumphant opening of his Twelfth Night last night, the Donmar�s artistic director tells how the play has been as good as therapy for him... more

Branagh leads Ivanov invasion

18.09.08

Not for many years has there been a more exciting invasion of London's commercial theatre world than Ivanov's launch in triumph by Michael Grandage.... more

The man with the Midas touch

19.08.08

Michael Grandage has transformed the Donmar into a theatrical powerhouse. Now he explains why he's offering Dench, Law and Branagh in the West End for only a tenner.... more

For he's a jolly good Othello

05.12.07

Chiwetel Ejiofor steals the show, offering a riveting, psychological diagnosis of Othello as a black African outsider in a white world.... more

The fall of a high-flying bird

28.11.07

Trevor Nunn's production of The Seagull is hampered by monotonous langour, conceptual vagueness and melodramatic pointing.... more

Romola's Nina is a revelation

01.06.07

Trevor Nunn scores a direct hit with his production of Checkov's The Seagull, which owes much of its devastating impact to Romola Garai who stars as would-be actress Nina.... more

Nunn's Lear arrives, but is hardly worth the wait

01.06.07

Ian McKellen's performance as King Lear in Trevor Nunn's gaudy production keeps you on the edge of your seat but is rarely moving, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

A most seductive Don Juan

07.12.06

Rhys Ifans stars in the title role in Patrick Marber's Don Juan In Soho, which gives the worst sex-addict in theatrical history a ravishing, thoroughly modern make-over.... more

Kristin will hand out coveted theatre award

22.11.06

Kristin Scott Thomas will present the statuette for best actor at the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel on Monday.... more

Grandage just can't play it safe

25.08.06

Michael Grandage, director of the Donmar, has scored another hit with Frost/Nixon. But, he says, every new production leaves his playhouse standing on a knife-edge.... more

Debut lacks song and dance

08.08.06

Patrick Swayze's legions of fans will no doubt have the time of their lives seeing him in the flesh in Guys and Dolls, but lovers of musical theatre are unlikely to be impressed.... more

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