With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
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
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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
Real-life Polish cleaning ladies get the chance to do more than shake a brush when they star in an international arts festival in Chelsea today... more | Add your view
A former Rambert dancer, has revved things up with new work, new dancers and newly commissioned music... more | Add your review
It's bad timing for This Much is True that it should come so soon after Kieron Barry’s impressively taut Stockwell... more | Add your review
The Great Extension is lacking the strength and motive that is needed for farce... more | Add your review
in Seize the Day Kwame Kwei-Armah turns his scrutiny to the question of race within the political sphere itself... more | Add your review
Atiha Sen Gupta's first full-length play - What Fatima Did - is a brave and timely exploration of the faultlines in our multicultural society... more | Add your review
Our longlist for the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards proves it has been 12 months of critical as well as commercial success... more | Add your view
Matt Lucas having left the show Con O’Neill has taken over the role of Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears... more | Add your review
Less flap and greater clarity would make The Only Come At Night a truly visionary experience... more | Add your review
Although Pains of Youth's erotic charge has been extravagantly talked up, it is about as sexy as a cold hip bath... more | Add your review
Before ballet got pointy and athletic, it must have looked something like Mark Morris's V... more | Add your review
Given she’s been off injured for a year, Sarah Lamb understandably took things carefully in Sleeping Beauty... more | Add your review
If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet is a fresh and rewarding piece, which suggests that Nick Payne is a writer to look out for... more | Add your review
Gregory Doran's production of Twelfth Night, which transfers to London in December, has enchanting moments... more | Add your review
It was good to see Wendy Whelan and Leanne Benjamin at Sadler’s Wells for Morphoses, says Sarah Frater... more | Add your review
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