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Matt Lucas' gay divorce

11.09.09
Matt Lucas may have slimmed down since separating from his husband, but his career’s ballooning, he tells Marianne Macdonald... more

Alan Cumming is rare talent in the driving seat

03.09.09
Alan Cuming's I Bought a Blue Car Today is parked in London only until Sunday, so hitch a lift sharpish. ... more

Sir Ian McKellen and Alan Rickman show support for Alan Cumming

03.09.09
Sir Ian McKellen and Alan Rickman pitched up for the evening and the after party of Alan Cumming's new show.... more

Funnier, sadder, braver... NY loves Kristin's Seagull

03.10.08
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

DVDs of the week

16.09.08
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. ... more

Sweet Land doesn't have kick to it

04.09.08
Sweet Land is a love story that sometimes proves edgy but is more often blandly sweet, says Charlotte O'Sullivan.... more

Has Saffron Burrows got the trout pout to end all trout pouts?

04.03.08
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 ... more

Clary rises to sinister challenge

16.11.07
Julian Clary rises to the challenge and makes the role of Emcee his own in Rufus Norris's acclaimed revival of Cabaret.... more

Dumbed-down Dionysus

10.09.07
Alan Cumming's deeply ridiculous performance as the God Dionysus outrages and cheapens Euripides's timeless play The Bacchae, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

What an enjoyable tragedy

16.08.07
Greek tragedy has never been such fun as in The Bacchae, a play starring Alan Cumming as Dionysus.... more

A star comes home

14.08.07
Alan Cumming returns to Scottish theatre to play Dionysus in a bold, brash music-powered production by John Tiffany.... more

Edinburgh Festival highlights

24.07.07
From theatre to comedy, music and film, our critics pick the best of the Edinburgh Festival.... more

The original Simm

13.07.07
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

Evans gets serious in Pinter play

04.01.07
Slapstick comic Lee Evans is to return to the stage in a serious drama - the 50th anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter.... more

Winners to be named at London theatre awards

27.11.06
The wait is almost over. Today we will discover who has triumphed in the 52nd Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... more

Rufus triumphant as Rock'n'Roll rules

27.11.06
Sir Tom Stoppard's politics and music saga Rock'n'Roll blasted its way to a double victory at the prestigious Evening Standard Theatre Awards.... more

It's the Jerry and Bill show

24.11.06
Bill Wyman and Jerry Hall will team up to present the best play prize at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards at the Savoy Hotel.... more

The big West End showdown

21.11.06
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

Stars to announce our 52nd theatre awards

20.11.06
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

The man who made this Cabaret go round

13.10.06
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

Bent casts new light on man's savagery

06.10.06
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

I grew up with oppression

04.10.06
Surviving a violent childhood and living as a bisexual in Bush's America, Alan Cumming is, he says, well prepared for his latest stage role.... more

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