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A Doll's House has a modern agenda

20.05.09
Ibsen's A Doll's House is a powerful statement of his radical beliefs about gender, the folly of idealism and the nature of modern love.... more

Dame Maggie Smith is fighting breast cancer

18.03.08
Dame Maggie Smith has declared the show must go on after being diagnosed with breast cancer. According to reports, the double Oscar-winning actress has had a tumour removed and has also completed a course of chemotherapy... more

Can the Doctor conquer Hamlet?

04.01.08
Shakespeare has never been more popular, but in the first of three major productions of the Danish tragedy, David Tennant has a fight on his hands.... 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

Lusty laughs prove comedy is still in rude health

10.10.07
Jonathan Kent's production of The Country Wife is boisterous enough, but needs more comic invention to work.... more

Restoring his humour

02.10.07
Actor Toby Stephens says he loves taking on a lighter role than usual for the upcoming revival of Restoration comedy The Country Wife.... more

West End prepares for autumn of high drama

28.08.07
Christian Slater, Stockard Channing and Patrick Stewart head a list of big name stars gearing up for a spectacular autumn at the West End.... more

Royal takes on Old Vic with in-house company

09.07.07
The Theatre Royal Haymarket is re-launching itself as a West End rival to Kevin Spacey's Old Vic, establishing an in-house company to produce full seasons.... more

The summer's hottest tickets

20.06.07
From blockbuster films and open-air theatre to the Last Night of the Proms and Prince, it promises to be a memorable summer of entertainment in London. Our critics have picked their favourites.... more

Secrets, lies and Pinter's sound of silence

06.06.07
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

I'm very scared of being back on stage

02.03.07
Maggie Smith returns to the West End in an Edward Albee play that hasn't been revived since its disastrous Broadway premiere. After five decades of acting, the fear, she says, is just as bad.... more

Joke's lost on assassins in the woods

24.08.06
It has been described as The Office meets Deliverance. But Christopher Smith's film hasn't the observational skill of the former and doesn't deserve to touch the hem of John Boorman's classic.... more

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