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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

Influentials 2009

02.01.09

From finance to fashion and politics to property, the past 12 months have seen dramatic changes in who wields influence in the capital. So who are the up-and-coming power players in London this year?... more

Don John needs charisma

19.12.08

Don John, the new take on the downfall of the legendary lover Don Giovanni, is limp in all the wrong places, says Fiona Mountford. ... more

A winning year for leading lights of the London stage

25.11.08

A 100-year History Cycle and an Othello reinvented, a vivacious newcomer and a brace of best actresses — our judges explain why they chose the winners of the 2008 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

The 2008 ES Theatre Awards shortlist

24.11.08

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Co-stars in contest for best actress at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

07.11.08

Comedy co-stars Penelope Wilton and Margaret Tyzack will go head to head for honours at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Heavyweights of the stage battle for best actor prize

04.11.08

Kevin Spacey, Alan Rickman and Kenneth Branagh are in the running for honours in this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

Theatre

08.10.08

Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre. ... more

My affair with Brief Encounter

19.02.08

Director Emma Rice explains how she took Noël Coward's classic weepie off the big screen and into the theatre ... more

Close Encounter with exquisite but doomed affair

18.02.08

Adapted for the stage, Noel Coward's classic Brief Encounter eloquently catches the repressed, self-destructive aspect of mid-Forties, middle England sexuality.... more

Brief Encounter returns to its West End roots

09.01.08

Brief Encounter has come full circle as a theatrical version by the Kneehigh Theatre Company opens at Haymarket's Cineworld.... more

A very good hair day

21.12.07

Everything is wonderfully spot-on in Rapunzel and Emma Rice's bouncy production will appeal to everyone.... 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

Now theatre critics are panned

14.05.07

The head of the National Theatre has launched an astonishing attack on critics as "dead white men".... more

Put this soulless adaption out of its misery

11.05.07

Adaptors Tom Morris and Emma Rice have torn the heart, soul and magic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's famous 1946 fantasy film A Matter Of Life And Death.... more

Critic's choice: Top five plays

21.12.06

For festive entertainment check out The Mouse Queen, Rapunzel and Coram Boy while A Family Affair is the ideal antidote to the traditional tonics of Christmas-time theatre.... more

A hair-raising adventure

14.12.06

It's been an action-packed year for rapidly rising Cornish innovators Kneehigh and now they have produced this immensely enjoyable alternative Christmas show, Rapunzel.... more

Fairytale high jinks and Shakespeare's Dame

26.09.06

Shakespeare's late romance, Cymbeline, gets the Kneehigh treatment, but its pared-down, revved up action-packed production doesn't always work perfectly, says Fiona Mountford.... more