Jackboots on Whitehall is set in an alternate version of Kent, in a world where Goering, Goebbels and Himmler are able to arrive in London and occupy Buckingham Palace.... more
Dizzee Rascal, Britain's Got Talent dance act Flawless and Emma Thompson are among the big names featuring in this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.... more
X Men actor Alan Cumming, Hollywood funnyman Mike Myers and Sex And The City's Kyle MacLachlan were among the celebrity models at Dressed To Kilt.... more
What a flair for playing gay roles male heterosexual film stars reveal these days - but if you are gay, you still need to hide your sexual orientation to make it... more
Kristin Scott Thomas made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's The Seagull with an opening night performance that left American critics taking off on a flight of flattery... more
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a sweet debut effort from Nicholas Stoller, XXY makes for relentless viewing and Street Kings is an almost damn fine cop movie.
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She's a 35-year-old actress whose good looks have won her many admirers and a previous career as a model. However it seems Saffron Burrows has gone one giant step too far in her attempt to achieve fuller lips and ended up with possibly the world's worst trout pout. It was hard not notice the British-born beauty's 'bee-stung lips' as she attended the premiere of her latest movie, The Bank Job, in New York
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Alan Cumming's deeply ridiculous performance as the God Dionysus outrages and cheapens Euripides's timeless play The Bacchae, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Life on Mars made him a mainstream star and now he's earning rave reviews for his West End debut - so why is John Simm so grumpy about being flavour of the month?.... more
The West End is set for a musicals versus drama showdown: as the blockbusters grab big audiences and profits, serious plays are struggling for life.... more
Jeremy Irons, Kathy Burke and Alan Cumming are among the stars who will take leading roles at the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at The Savoy next Monday.... more
Cabaret may have received rave notices, but Nick Curtis finds director Rufus Norris's next project is to re-establish his own work-life balance.... more
Nicholas de Jongh finds the revival of Bent as horrific as its 1979 premiere. And the tale of gay persecution in Nazi death camps remains relevant, he says.... more
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