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Evening Standard theatre awards: Rachel Weisz and Lenny Henry fight stage giants for top prize

09.11.09

Stars of the British stage including Rachel Weisz, Samuel West and Lenny Henry will battle it out at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more

The Standard Theatre Awards 2009: Longlist revealed

02.11.09

Our longlist for the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards proves it has been 12 months of critical as well as commercial success.... more

The reinvention of Mark Rylance

14.10.09

Following his mighty performance in Jerusalem, Mark Rylance tries playing Beckett in the West End.... more

Jerusalem gives up an amoral hero

16.07.09

In Jez Butterworth's energetic new play, Jerusalem, William Blake's vision of �England�s green and pleasant land� is transmuted into a fiesta of misrule. ... more

All-star cast to perform in Pinter tribute

08.05.09

Jude Law, Alan Rickman and Colin Firth will head an all-star tribute to playwright Harold Pinter next month... more

Resound of the suburbs in Parlour Song

27.03.09

Jez Butterworth�s Parlour Song duly delves into the vexed problem of marriages heading for the rocks.... more

Daldry's Billy Elliot opens in New York

13.11.08

Three years after it conquered the West End, Sir Elton John's stage musical version of Billy Elliot is opening on Broadway... 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

BAZ BAMIGBOYE IN CANNES: Sienna Miller, Penelope Cruz, Naomi Campbell and more...

23.05.08

The Cannes Film Festival hands out its prizes on Sunday and the top stars are preparing for an action-packed weekend. BAZ BAMIGBOYE has all the gossip from the French Riviera.... 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

Pinter takes over the asylum

19.07.07

Harold Pinter's The Hothouse at the National engenders a beguiling sense of surprise and novelty and bristles with unease and menace, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Early flowering for Pinter

29.05.07

Harold Pinter�s 1958 play The Hothouse, completed just before The Caretaker but not produced until 1980, is coming to the National in July.... more

National to stage classic Niven film

15.02.07

A much-loved war film has been adapted into a play to be staged at the National Theatre.... 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

How Mackenzie stole the show

30.01.07

No one expected Gareth from The Office to act everyone off the stage in Chekhov. But that's just what he did at the Royal Court where The Seagull opened last week.... more

Beautiful, soaring Seagull is a five-star swansong

26.01.07

This enthralling version of The Seagull offers a series of shocks for traditional Chekhov lovers and Mackenzie Crook's transition from TV comedian to serious actor is amazing.... more

Riveting five-star performance

16.10.06

Harold Pinter winds down his amazing dramatic career with a swansong performance in Krapp's Last Tape that will be written up in theatrical history.... more