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London wants to see tough films for hard times

17.10.11
Six days in and the 55th London Film Festival has already yielded a fine harvest of intriguing movies. But it ain't a barrel of laughs... more

Saved, Lyric Hammersmith - review

14.10.11
Saved is gruelling, but in the context of this summer's riots it still feels resonant - a chilling picture of aimless lives and the indifference of society... more

London's 25 hottest tickets

20.09.11
From Rihanna's 10-night run at the O2 to Michael Sheen's Hamlet and the London Jazz Festival, there's plenty to look forward to between now and Christmas ... more

Pub theatre is first to stage Tennessee Williams plays

23.02.11
Pub theatre wins rights to premiere two plays by Tennessee Williams to celebrate the centenary of the late American playwright's birth ... more

Michael Sheen plays Hamlet after making all the real world a stage

31.01.11
Patrick Stewart and Michael Sheen, two of Britain's finest actors, are starring as Shakespeare and Hamlet in a new season at the Young Vic... more

Reality bites for bard of the suburbs in Bingo

26.04.10
We tend to think of Shakespeare as a magus, so to see him as we do in Edward Bond’s Bingo — an impotent and sleepless old man, fiftyish but looking more — is unsettling.... more

The Gods Weep gets lost in a corporate whirl

18.03.10
Dennis Kelly’s new play for the RSC, The Gods Weep, is inspired by King Lear. But this is a messy play, and clearly a slimmed-down version of something longer.... more

A Miracle is compelling take on life in a flat land

05.03.09
What makes A Miracle so poignant and Bondian is the way the main characters struggle to improve their lives.... more

Comedy? You must be joking

07.02.08
The Sea is worth seeing for Eileen Atkins, but then her character is the only one that pursues a coherent course through the play.... more

A sea of despair, farce and black comedy

24.01.08
Jonathan Kent's revival of absurd black comedy The Sea, oscillates abruptly between farce, comedy and despair.... more

Acting trio to present our theatre awards

23.11.07
Actors Simon Russell Beale, Dame Eileen Atkins and Sophie Okonedo will hand out prizes at the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... 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

The man who made us love Macbeth

28.09.07
London's most promising theatre director, Rupert Goold, takes a moment to talk about his latest show and future plans.... more

The actress taking on the mother of all roles

17.08.07
Lesley Manville is taking on the lead role in a stage adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother - alongside transsexual prostitutes, lesbian divas and a pregnant nun.... 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

Courting controversy

06.02.07
The Royal Court should provoke, says its new director Dominic Cooke in his first interview, and he plans to do just that.... more

Fools enslaved to hierarchy

27.09.06
A revival of Edward Bond's 1981 play Restoration flashes with wit and righteous anger but a few too many off-key notes to break the spell.... more


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