Hawkins, Spall 'bewitching' in Nick Payne's hit Constellations

Hot Ticket Fri 23 Nov, AT 07:31

Made in Dagenham star Sally Hawkins shines in this scintillating multiple-universe rom-com

Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry make Globe transfer a hit

Hot Ticket Tue 20 Nov, AT 07:26

Rylance's glorious star turn in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Richard III make for a sublime double bill

Royal Opera House revives Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore

Hot Ticket Mon 19 Nov, AT 07:33

Laurent Pelly's Fellini-esque version of Donizetti's comic opera is a 'sparkling success'

Billie Piper 'thrillingly good' in National Theatre's The Effect

Hot Ticket Thu 15 Nov, AT 07:32

Piper wows critics in new play on love, drugs and neuroscience from 'Enron' writer Lucy Prebble

Cate Blanchett

Surreal thing: Cate Blanchett wins best actress nomination

One-Minute Read Tue 13 Nov, AT 14:30

Youth, smaller venues and a Hollywood star dominate the Evening Standard Theatre Awards shortlist

Frances De La Tour shines in Alan Bennett's witty 'People'

Hot Ticket Mon 12 Nov, AT 07:39

History Boys writer back with a 'mordantly funny' take on the English heritage industry

Anna Friel shines in Chekhov's heartbreaking Uncle Vanya

Hot Ticket Tue 6 Nov, AT 07:31

Ken Stott falls for an exceptionally alluring Friel in Chekhov's melancholy masterpiece

Maggie Smith as Violet, the dowager countess of Grantham

Downton dramas: Maggie Smith heart scare, Lady Edith heckled

First Post Sun 4 Nov, AT 12:20

Dame Maggie taken to hospital, while Sir Peter Hall upstages Laura Carmichael on West End debut

Dominic West, Laura Donnelly in The River

Dominic West 'compelling' in Jez Butterworth's The River

Hot Ticket Wed 31 Oct, AT 07:09

Star of The Wire in spellbinding new play from the writer of Jerusalem

Oliver Cromwell (55 Days at Hampstead Theatre)

Cromwell's 55 Days: tale of England's only military coup

Hot Ticket Mon 29 Oct, AT 07:49

Mark Gatiss and Douglas Henshall retell power struggle between Charles I and Cromwell

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