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The 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards: a glittering night with the brightest stars of London theatre

Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Mendes, Ian McKellen... the glamour quotient was off the scale

Evening Standard

Sir Elton John, Nicole Scherzinger, Ruth Wilson and Sir Sam Mendes star at Evening Standard Theatre Awards

Nicole Scherzinger shared her delight at winning in our starry celebration of the London stage

Evening Standard

OPINION - Ian McKellen's thrilling new show is just the kind of innovation the Evening Standard Theatre Awards celebrate

Our annual celebration of theatre is packed with fresh takes and new stories

Evening Standard

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The week in theatre: Death of England: Closing Time; Sunset Boulevard – review

The fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the drama as Norma Desmond

The Guardian - UK

Nicole Scherzinger: Sunset Boulevard ‘truly changed my life’

In Jamie Lloyd’s production of the 1993 musical, Scherzinger plays Norma Desmond, a delusional silent movie star discarded by Hollywood amid the arrival of talking pictures

Evening Standard

Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre review: Ready for her close up? Nicole Scherzinger smashes it

It’s a physically and emotionally exposing performance in a tour de force of a show

Evening Standard

Sunset Boulevard review – Nicole Scherzinger dazzles in Jamie Lloyd’s radical rework

Lloyd brings hipster edginess, style and unpredictability to this revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical – though it’s more surface-level than penetrating closeup

The Guardian - UK

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Nicole Scherzinger: ‘One of my favourite British things is the roasts. Last Sunday I had two’

The Honolulu-born singer on playing Norma Desmond in the West End, the heartbreak of the Hawaiian wildfires, and the roots of her work ethic

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Effect; Makeshifts and Realities – reviews

Jamie Lloyd galvanises Lucy Prebble’s drama about two patients who on a drug trial, while a trilogy of pre-first world war playlets captures a forgotten world

The Guardian - UK

The Effect review – Lucy Prebble’s intense and intoxicating encounter

A love affair between two participants in a drug trial is staged by Jamie Lloyd with a stellar cast including Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell

The Guardian - UK

The Effect at National Theatre: a mind-bending experience

Jamie Lloyd’s production is a 100-minute emotional arc

Evening Standard

‘Succession was like coming home’: Lucy Prebble on life inside TV’s greatest show

The Enron playwright felt her career was floundering when the call came from Jesse Armstrong’s acclaimed series and changed everything. She talks about why writing is a lonely calling, and the problem with ‘grandparent-pleasing’ theatre

The Guardian - UK

Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?

After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates

The Guardian - UK

Finding non-football comparisons for all 32 NFL starting quarterbacks

Jarrett Bailey gives all 32 starting quarterbacks a non-football comparison.

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Nicole Scherzinger to star in new West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard

The new show will be directed by Jamie Lloyd and play at the Savoy Theatre for 16 weeks from September

The Independent UK

Jessica Chastain returns to theater with 'A Doll's House'

Jessica Chastain counts her performance as Nora in the current Broadway revival of “A Doll’s House” to be one of the “hardest things” she has ever done

Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘A Doll’s House’ on Broadway with Jessica Chastain and Michael Patrick Thornton: It’s all in your head

NEW YORK — Experiencing the fascinating new revival of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” which reduces the iconic proto-feminist drama to its barest thematic essentials, is not unlike listening to a podcast. For anyone interested in Broadway trends, here is a remarkable example of how the rise of Audible and…

The Guardian - US

A Doll’s House review – Jessica Chastain captivates in minimalist revival

The Oscar winner makes for an exceptional Nora in a visually muted yet emotionally effective remount of Ibsen’s classic drama

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James McAvoy, Best Actor at ES Theatre Awards 2022: ‘Theatre is changing for the better’

He won the award for his standout role in Cyrano de Bergerac, whose director Jamie Lloyd called him, ‘Quite simply the greatest actor of our generation’

Tribune News Service

Jessica Chastain returning to Broadway for updated version of ‘A Doll’s House’

NEW YORK — Oscar winner Jessica Chastain’s return to Broadway will breathe new life into an old classic.

Evening Standard

The Halloween franchise: how to watch all 13 Michael Myers films in order

It’s not quite as straightforward as it may seem

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a non-party political issue’: banning the weedkiller glyphosate

The WHO declared it a probable human carcinogen in 2015 and 70-80 UK councils have turned to chemical-free options

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Seagull; The Southbury Child; Richard III

The action’s all in the detail in Jamie Lloyd’s spellbound Chekhov; Alex Jennings excels as a vicar refusing to find the common touch; and Richard III falls short of its health warning

Evening Standard

The Seagull at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London review: Emilia Clarke is charismatic in her West End debut

Game of Thrones star is far from the only reason to grab a ticket

The Guardian - UK

The Seagull review – woodchip-walled Chekhov is hypnotic

Emilia Clarke and Indira Varma star in Jamie Lloyd’s stripped-back West End production which asks probing questions about performance

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