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Bedroom Farce and Miss Julie see Rose in bloom

16.10.09

It's heartening, at last, to see the financially precarious Rose in full bloom as a producing house with Bedroom Farce and Miss Julie.... more

Thoughtful direction in Confusions

14.08.09

Confusions reminds us that there are few better analysts of everyday unhappiness than Alan Ayckbourn.... more

New York salutes Billy Elliot as musical leads British charge with 10 Tony Awards

08.06.09

Billy Elliot was the toast of New York as Sir Elton John's musical picked up 10 Tony Awards, spearheading a triumphant night for British theatre... more

Acclaim for Ayckbourn trilogy as Norman conquers Broadway

24.04.09

Sir Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy The Norman Conquests has extended London theatre's invasion of Broadway, opening to phenomenal acclaim in New York... more

Resound of the suburbs in Parlour Song

27.03.09

Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song duly delves into the vexed problem of marriages heading for the rocks.... more

Olivier for playwright with fresh stage plans

09.03.09

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of Britain's most popular and prolific playwrights, is set to do more work in London after the huge success of his Norman Conquests trilogy at the Old Vic... more

A Night Out in London: Woman in Mind & Zizzi

20.02.09

Woman In Mind is the latest Alan Ayckbourn play to be staged in the West End. Make sure you see it and treat yourself to a great value dinner. ... more

Woman in Mind is ingenuity incarnate

09.02.09

Alan Ayckbourn's comic touch is traditional but he has hit upon a brilliant concept in Woman in Mind.... more

Ayckbourn trilogy to conquer the US

03.02.09

Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy The Norman Conquests is to transfer to Broadway directly following its critically acclaimed run in London... more

The man who wrote the script for London’s theatre boom

27.01.09

His musical, Billy Elliot, is a hit on Broadway. Now Lee Hall is bringing his Evening Standard Award-winning The Pitmen Painters back by popular demand.... more

Richard E Grant brings Carnage to Richmond

30.12.08

Richard E Grant, Juliet Stevenson and Antony Sher are among the stars of the new season at Richmond Theatre... more

Kevin Spacey speaks of pride at turning round the Old Vic

24.11.08

Kevin Spacey spoke with pride about his success in transforming the Old Vic as the Evening Standard celebrated the best of London theatre... more

How I laugh at the bad old Seventies

09.10.08

Revisiting your Seventies childhood is never rewarding. The frizzy perm, National Health glasses, the terrible moment when, aged 11, I realised that my mother had made up my school dress using a maternity sewing pattern (we were so poor, I had to wear it all summer with one of those ghastly elasticated nurse's belts). Just don't get me started... more

Serious laughter in the master farce Norman Conquests

07.10.08

This assured revival of Alan Ayckbourn's masterful 1973 trilogy, showing in London for the first time in 34 years, usefully reminds us to take the laughter very seriously.... more

Old Vic gets round to staging Ayckbourn at last

25.09.08

It is London's oldest theatre as you have never seen it before, transformed for a production not staged in the city for a generation... more

Foyle's War becomes Foyle's Peace - much-loved TV show will have new series set in peacetime

23.08.08

The final episode of Foyle’s War may have ended conclusively with the characters celebrating VE Day – but it seems the much-loved ITV1 drama is set for a post-war revival. ... more

Theatre doors shut as musicals and credit crunch take hold

01.08.08

Five leading West End theatres are in darkness amid fears that traditional plays are being squeezed out of theatreland by the economic downturn and an excess of musicals... more

Children 'being denied vital access to a cultural life'

21.07.08

Children are being denied their right to enjoy music, art and drama, campaigners say... more

Ayckbourn hits revived at Old Vic

15.05.08

The Old Vic is to be transformed into a theatre in the round to stage Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy, The Norman Conquests... more

An absurdly funny night

12.12.07

Absurd Person Singular offers a perfect antidote to the cloying bonhomie of the season and proves to be an irresistable piece of theatre.... more

Life's still sweet for Jane

11.12.07

Versatile stage and screen actress Jane Horrocks talks about her role in Alan Ayckbourn's seasonal farce Absurd Person Singular.... more

Ayckbourn in France

19.07.07

Alain Resnais's new film, Private Fears in Public Places, is based on an Alan Ayckbourn play and translates well into French... more

Ayckbourn: 'Hollywood stars damage West End'

26.01.07

Sir Alan Ayckbourn has launched an attack on the Hollywood invasion of the British stage saying that most film stars could "barely be heard beyond row three".... more

This Halloween trick is no treat

20.11.06

The Lightning Play is an indigestible, drearily derivative theatrical cocktail set at Halloween in which the spiritual and material worlds overlap.... more

Reality fails to bite

21.08.06

Antony Neilson's Realism is like an Alan Ayckbourn comedy seen through the doped perspective of someone under the influence of a class-A drug, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more