It’s a Royal flush at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards
The Royal Court turned cutting-edge drama into establishment success as it swept the board at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.. more | Add your view
New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
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Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor

Our judges reveal why they chose the recipients of the 2009 Evening Standard Theatre Awards... more | Add your view
The Royal Court turned cutting-edge drama into establishment success as it swept the board at the 55th London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.. more | Add your view
As he wins the outstanding newcomer prize at the Evening Standard theatre awards for his role as Othello, Lenny Henry has come a long way from black and white minstrels.. more | Add your view
As the dark nights beckon, it's oddly comforting to be transported to one of Earth’s coldest places with The Fahrenheit Twins... more | Add your review
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The title of Mike Bartlett's new play, Cock, may excite your inner punster, but the piece itself is far from being a trawl through tawdriness... more | Add your review
A singing supermarket worker has landed a role as jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald in a West End show.. more | Add your view
Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art is funny and sometimes brilliantly so, but strangely uninvolving... more | Add your review
While Akram Khan's Kathak confirms his enduring virtuosity, it was the extract from his new work that reveals his innovative intelligence... more | Add your review
Hanna Berrigan’s production is tidily spare, but while Public Property is enjoyable, its insights mostly feel familiar, not invigoratingly fresh... more | Add your review
The Orange Tree's revival of the bracing 1957 satire The Making of Moo, first performed at the Royal Court, is impressive... more | Add your review
A pub theatre is offering opera for a fiver in an ambitious programme of grand-scale music in a bar-room setting... more | Add your view
Blood Brothers has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C... more | Add your review
Robin Soans's sometimes bracing play Mixed Up North is based on the testimony of people involved in a youth club in Burnley... more | Add your review
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The Kreutzer Sonata, published in 1889, doesn't fit the familiar image of Tolstoy. It is an unsettling vision of one man’s misgivings about sex... more | Add your review
Despite two lovely performances in Origin of the Species it's hard not to wish that Bryony Lavery had allowed her script to evolve a little more... more | Add your review
Michael Keegan-Dolan is the latest to try his hand at The Rite Of Spring although he is one of the least successful... more | Add your review
Robin French's script is not without its drawbacks but overall has the agreeable air of a little-visited outpost of a rambling museum in Gilbert Is Dead... more | Add your review
What do you get if you combine corsets, cabaret and abstract dance routines? Architecting would be the answer.. more | Add your review
Shraddha has energy and some moments of real poetry, and, although at times soft, it feels faithfully contemporary... more | Add your review
Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire have quietly become the biggest players in theatreland. Here they reveal how their passion for the stage has finally paid off.. more | Add your view
The dancers are very good but everyone seems bemused by the choreography in the Royal Ballet's latest mixed bill... more | Add your review