Mr. Nick Curtis - Writer for hire

Sally Field, Michael Caine, Mickey Mouse - the film books on offer for Christmas 6/12/18
Evening Standard
"It's about the malleability of truth" - writer Alexander Bodin Saphir on the 'miracle' wartime rescue of Denmark's Jews 29/12/18
Observer
London's best theatre bars - 6/12/18
ES magazine
Oh no EU Don't - the big Brexit panto, 12/12/18
Evening Standard (illustration: Paul Dallimore)
A winner's tale - Sophie Okonedo on her Evening Standard Best Actress Award, race, class and family life 6/12/18
ES magazine (pictures: Josh Shinner)
Quiz of the Year 2018 21/12/18
Evening Standard (illustration: Gerald Scarfe)

Feature: "It's about the malleability of truth" - writer Alexander Bodin Saphir on the 'miracle' wartime rescue of Denmark's Jews 29/12/19

Feature: Quiz of the Year, 2018 - 21/12/18

Evening Standard (illustration: Gerald Scarfe)

#175 - "Tight, taut, keen-edged" - theatre review, Sweat, 20/12/18

Donmar Warehouse

Feature: "Oh no EU Don't" - the great Brexit panto, 12/12/18

Evening Standard (illustration: Paul Dallimore)

#174 - "Gives Chekhov a shaking" - theatre review, Uncle Vanya, 11/12/18

Hampstead Theatre

Feature: My London - Rosalie Craig, 6/12/18

Feature: London's Best Theatre Bars 6/12/18

Feature: The Showman - Cameron Mackintosh's life in musicals 6/12/18

#173 - "Innovative or irritating?" - Theatre review, The Tell-Tale Heart, 13/12/18

National Theatre, Dorfman

Feature: A winner's tale - Sophie Okonedo on her Evening Standard Award, race, class and family life 6/12/18

ES magazine (pictures: Josh Shinner)

Feature: Sally Field, Michael Caine and Mickey Mouse - this Christmas's film books 6/12/18

Evening Standard

#172 - "Dynamic, alchemical" - theatre review, True West 05/12/18

Vaudeville Theatre

Feature: The (paper) Crown - the Royal Christmas at Sandringham imagined 4/12/18

Evening Standard (illustration: Paul Dallimore)

Feature: Why London is the best place in London to spend Christmas 29/11/18

Evening Standard (illustration: Joe McLaren)

#171 - Inventive, invigorating, daft - theatre review, Hadestown 2/11/18

National Theatre, Olivier

Feature: "The show we all need right now" - the brilliant musical Come from Away tells how one small town reacted to 9/11 25/11/18

Feature: "Unfortunately, migrant caravan all dressed VERY badly..." - Mrs Trump's Diary, part four 22/11/18

Evening Standard (pic: Getty)

Feature: "Chat is the new rock 'n' roll" 19/11/18

Evening Standard

Feature: "There are no limits" - Sophie Okonedo on her Evening Standard award, love, life and cycling 20/11/18

Evening Standard (pic: Dave Benett)

#170 - "Simply charming" - concert review, Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra 17/11/18

Feature: "I don't like feeling underestimated" - indie queen Zoe Kazan on acting, writing and having a baby with partner Paul Dano 16/11/18

ES magazine (pictures: Anya Holdstock)

#169 - "Domestic intimacy and a strong supernatural tang" - theatre review, Macbeth 14/11/18

Evening Standard

Feature: Deal, or No Deal - the great Brexit Quiz 15/11/18

Evening Standard (pic: Jeremy Selwyn)

Feature: A voice that can knock down walls - Sharon D Clarke on Caroline, or Change 14/11/18

Evening Standard (pic: Alastair Muir)

#168 - "A superb central performance by Threlfall" - theatre review, Don Quixote 13/11/18

Garrick Theatre

#167 - "Are we hitting peak Pinter" - theatre review, Pinter Three 12/11/18

Harold Pinter Theatre

Feature: "The next thing I write is going to be set NOW" - Laura Wade on her Austen adaptation and Home, I'm Darling 11/11/18

Observer (pic by Linda Nylind)

Feature: "It's not a farewell tour - I'm saying hello" - Ian McKellen on his 80th birthday plans 9/11/18

Evening Standard

Feature: "My digital twin is a transparent human figure with colour-coded organs" - Babylon's health check tested 8/11/18

Evening Standard

#166 - "Wilfully absurd" - theatre review, A Very Very Very Dark Matter 6/11/18

#165 - "Rackety but timely" - theatre review, White Teeth 5/11/18

#164 - "Probably necessary but difficult" - theatre review, Ear for Eye 31/10/11

Royal Court Theatre

#163 - "Maisie Williams is better than the material" - theatre review, I and You 30/10/18

Hampstead Theatre

#162 - "Angular limbs and angry genitals" - art review, Klimt/Schiele 31/10/18

Feature: "I don't see the point in doing things if they don't terrify you" - Tamsin Greig on Pinter, comedy, and growing up "in poverty, really" 31/10/18

Evening Standard

#161 - "Radical reworking makes the play live afresh" - The Wild Duck 30/10/18

Almeida Theatre

Feature: "My last year was a feminist war cry" - Elizabeth Debicki on Steve McQueen's Widows, The Night Manager, and being "daggy" 20/10/18

Stella Magazine

#160 - "Beguilement gives way to exasperation" - theatre review, Wise Children 19/10/18

#159 - "Acute, witty, sometimes savage, often warm" - theatre review, Stories 17/10/18

National Theatre, Dorfman

#158 - "Rosalie Craig again proves herself a star" - theatre review, Company, 17/10/18

Gielgud Theatre

#157 - "This had to be staged, even if it doesn't quite work" - theatre review, Measure for Measure 15/10/18

Donmar Warehouse

#156 - As far away from a hurried Eggs Benedict as you could get- review, Jamavar's Royal Brunch 15/10/18

Jamavar Mayfair

Feature: Why I mourn the likely closure of West End cheap eats stalwart Gaby's 12/10/18

Evening Standard

Feature: "Tacky cushions and a mixed bag of experts" - TV review, ITV's Royal Wedding 12/10/18

Evening Standard

#155 - "Grown-up, challenging, necessary" - theatre review, The Height of the Storm 12/10/18

Wyndham's Theatre

Feature: "Energetically disgusting" - book review, Kill 'Em All, 11/10/18

Evening Standard

#154 -"Promising indeed" - theatre review, Twelfth NIght, 11/10/18

#153 - "Sketchy and unfinished" - theatre review, I'm Not Standing 10/10/18

National Theatre, Lyttelton

Feature: "I'll probably have an existential breakdown in my 40s" - Tom Glynn Carney on taking The Ferryman to New York 02/10/18

Evening Standard

Feature: New kids on the block - the young talents you need to know 27/09/18

Feature: "There they were - six lionesses" - travel, Tanzania safari 19/09/18

Feature: "A jewel of a place" - hotel review, Zawadi, Zanzibar

Feature: "Beautifully designed and located but needs love" - hotel review, White Sand, Zanzibar,

Feature: "Everyone is sexually frustrated, ha ha" - playwright Nick Payne on Wanderlust 03/09/18

Evening Standard

#152 - "A milestone worth saluting" - theatre review, Pinter 1 and Pinter 2 01/10/18

Harold Pinter theatre

#151 - "Stately, detailed, intriguing" - theatre review, Antony and Cleopatra 27/09/18

National Theatre

Feature: "Women are the new men" - Rosalie Craig interview 18/09/18

Evening Standard

Feature: Rising star Sheila Atim on race, height and swapping science for the stage 12/09/18

#150 - "gloriously, beautifully, involvingly naturalistc" - theatre review, The Humans 11/09/2018

#149 - "The score is subtler than the action" - theatre review, Love's Labour's Lost 30/08/18

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

#148 - "As richly evocative as its source material" - theatre review, Toast 27/08/18

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe

#147 - "Stark, striking images of oppression" - theatre review, Silence 27/08/18

Pleasance at EICC, Edinburgh Fringe

Feature: "We need to watch our backs" - Playwright Byrony Lavery Q&A 26/08/18

Feature: Revenge of the Nerds: why sci-fi fans were right all along - my Evening Standard column 23/08/18

Evening Standard

Feature: “Two nightmares haunted my childhood: my father killing himself or my parents getting a divorce" - William Miller on life among the literati as Jonathan Miller's son - 27/08/18

The Times (pictures by Jooney Woodward)

Feature: "I have zero filter" - Ayda Field on X Factor, motherhood and being Mrs Robbie Williams 26/08/18

Stella Magazine, Sunday Telegraph

Feature: "Beyond the pail" - Notting Hill's new seafood restaurant Bucket reviewed, 23/08/18

Feature: How Leonard Bernstein would have reacted to the West Side Story prom race row (not my Radio Times interview with daughter Jamie Bernstein, but a Times write-off) 07/08/18

#146 - "A flimsy delight" - theatre review, Little Shop of Horrors 14/08/18

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Feature: Gregg Wallace on dealing with anxiety and low self-esteem 13/08/18

Feature: Playwright Enda Walsh on opera, Bowie and being "brutally sad" - 10/08/18

#145 - "High expectations come up short" - theatre review, Othello 02/08/18

Shakespeare's Globe

#144 - "More enjoyable than believable" - theatre review - Home, I'm Darling 01/08/18

National Theatre

#143 - "Stunning in its simplicity" - theatre review, The Lehman Trilogy 01/08/18

National Theatre

Feature: The stand-up whose father sold Russia - Olga Koch 01/08/18

The Times (pictures by Gary Morrisroe)

#142 - "Lit up by McKellen's relish of the words and emotions" - theatre review, King Lear 27/07/18

Duke of York's Theatre

#141 - "Tough going farce-cum-satire" - theatre review, Exit the King 26/07/18

National Theatre

Feature: How hothouse London has changed since the heatwave of 1976 - 25/06/17

Evening Standard (pic: Ken Towner)

Feature: "Graphic novels deserve literary prizes" - 25/07/18

Evening Standard (pic: PA)

Feature: What's it like to have a private theatre performance in your home? 20/07/18

Daily Telegraph

#140 - Wilfully exasperating and stupid" - theatre review, Pity - 20/07/18

#139 - "Moving but never hits the heights" - theatre review, A Monster Calls 19/07/18

#138 - "Radical, urgent, but somewhat rushed" - theatre review, Allelujah! 19/07/18

#137 - "Trump's chopper took off overhead" - theatre review, As You Like It 13/07/18

Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park

Feature: "Donald, it is FINNISH!" - inside Melania Trump's diary (as imagined by @nickcurtis) 18/07/18

Evening Standard (pic: Reuters)

Feature: "I pulled my groin" - Sacha Dhawan on Alan Bennett, being a 'Manc' Marvel villain, and not being Indian enough - 18/07/18

Evening Standard (pictures: Daniel Hambury/@stellapicsltd

Feature: Mel and Phil - who won the battle of the spouses in the Trump/May summit? 12/07/18

Daily Telegraph

Feature: "A terrible husband and father as well as a genius" - book review, Albert Einstein Speaking by RJ Gadney 12/07/18

Evening Standard

Feature: "Capital cities need vibrant cultural lives" - the South Bank Centre's first female boss, Elaine Bedell 11/07/18

Evening Standard

Feature: "Americans go bonkers in their own way" - Tina Brown on Trump, Weinstein and hwo celebrity culture went sour 05/07/18

Feature: Battle of the heatwaves - 1976 vs 2018 08/07/18

Sunday Telegraph

#136 - "Layers atrocity on absurdity" - theatre review, The Lieutenant of Inishmore 05/07/18

Noel Coward Theatre

#135 - "Delightfully unusual" - theatre review, Fun Home, 05/07/18

#135 - "An angry shout of a play" - theatre review, The Jungle 06/07/18

Playhouse Theatre

Feature: The Marchioness reinventing Longleat's kitchens - and the aristocracy 21/06/18

The Times (pictures by Millie Pilkington)

#134 - "Hardcore but absolutely worth it" - theatre review, Imperium 03/07/18

Gielgud Theatre

Feature: "A #Metoo prequel with bolted-on journalistic observations" - Caitlin Moran's How to be Famous reviewed 28/06/18

Evening Standard (picture: Getty)

Feature: So, do I need testosterone injections...? 24/06/18

Daily Mail (pictures: Ki Price)

Feature: "My advice to other disabled people? Go for it!" - Sarah Gordy on acting, Down's Syndrome, and the play she inspired 21/06/18

Evening Standard (picture: Snooty Fox)

#133 - "directed with verve and fibre" - theatre review, The Two Noble Kinsmen

Shakespeare's Globe

#132 - "Puckish, playful, quirky" - exhibition review, Edward Bawden 31/05/18

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Feature: My exes are my friends - Elizabeth Hurley on ageing, having her son as her stylist, and her nephew's stabbing - 20/05/18

Stella Magazine (picture by Alan Gelati)

#131 - "A curate's oeuf" - theatre review, Tartuffe 31/05/18

Haymarket Theatre Royal

#130 - "Her tinfoil zeppelin is a thing of buoyant beauty" - exhibition review, Lee Bul: Crashing 31/05/18

Hayward Gallery

Feature: Ronni Ancona and Alistair McGowan, imperson... 14/05/18

Daily Telegraph (p[ictures by Paul Grover)

#129 - "A decisive and intriguing start to Michelle Terry's tenure" - theatre review, As You Like It/Hamlet 18/05/18

Shakespeare's Globe

#128 - "A great, pugnacious powerhouse of a performance" - theatre review, Red 18/05/18

Wyndham's Theatre

Feature: Could a sleep divorce save your marriage? 14/05/18

#127 - "A potent sense of loss and suppressed needs" - theatre review, Nightfall 11/05/18

Feature: The real story behind Patrick Melrose 10/05/18

Evening Standard

#126 - "It is young Fox's evening" - theatre review, An Ideal Husband 09/05/18

Vaudeville Theatre

Feature: Floating homeowner - how one woman got on the property ladder 08/05/18

The Times (pictures by Circe Hamilton)

#125 - "Chewy, nuanced performances" - theatre review, Mood Music 04/05/18

Feature: Jo Whiley on family, the BBC and equal pay 29/04/18

Stella Magazine (picture by Gabby Laurent)

#124 - "A devastating expression of grief" - theatre review, Nine Night 03/05/18

National Theatre

Feature: Mrs Trump's Diaries (part 2) 26/04/18

Evening Standard

Feature: The Trump-Macron bromance analysed 25/04/18

Daily Telegraph (pictures: Jim Bourg/Reuters)

#123 - "Pandemonium" - theatre review, Absolute Hell 27/04/18

National Theatre

#122 - "Inspired grilled artichokes" - restaurant review, Jose Pizarro 27/04/18

#121 - "A difficult work I could engage with endlessly" - theatre review, The Writer 24/04/18

Almeida Theatre

#120 - "A must-see" - art review, Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece 24/04/18

Feature: "Not a lifestyle brand, but a way of living" - how Soho House took over the world 23/04/18

Evening Standard

#119 - "Daft but brilliant" - Theatre review, An Evening of Meat 19/04/18

Feature: "I'm playing a lot of dodgy blokes" - Ben Chapiln on Hollywood, sexual politics, and his Old Vic debut - 17/04/18

Evening Standard (pictures by Daniel Hambury)

#118 - "Ravishing and provoking in equal measure" - art review, Rationalism on Set 18/04/18

Estorick Collection

Feature: "I find something very shocking and subversive in Agatha Christie" - Sarah Phelps on her TV adaptation of Ordeal by Innocence 13/04/18

Evening Standard

Feature: Jessie Buckley on love, male power and red hair 12/04/18

The Times (pictures by Chris McAndrew)

#117 - "Eccentricity is definitely the keyword" - theatre review, The Moderate Soprano 13/04/18

Feature: "I still have the scars" - Ella Purnell opens up about self-harm, growing up on camera, and being a Chanel ambassador 12/04/18

ES Magazine (pictures by Vanina Sorrenti)

Feature: "Beneath the affectionate portrait of simple, honest folk are murkier undercurrents" - Jeffrey Lewis's Bealport reviewed 05/04/18

Evening Standard

#116 - "Rackety, enjoyable, real life as light ent" - theatre review, Quiz, 11/04/18

Noel Coward Theatre

Feature: "A seven-hour play about love is what we need right now" - Kyle Soller on The Inheritance 10/04/18

Evening Standard (pictures by Matt Writtle)

Feature: HIGNFY lad or Only Connect Brainbox - which quiz tribe fits you? 06/04/18

Evening Standard

#115 - "La-sir-blah-sir" - Theatre review, The Way of the World 06/04/18

Donmar Warehouse

#114 - "Playful, touching, baggily brilliant" - theatre review, The Inheritance 29/03/18

#113 - "Fascinating material, insufficiently dramatised" - The Great Wave 23/03/18

National Theatre, Dorfman

Feature: "An odd, compelling hybrid of a memoir" - Viv Albertine's To Throw Away Unopened - 22/03/18

Evening Standard (pictures: Getty Images)

Feature: "I'm usually the quirky, funny one" - Patsy Ferran on her star-making performance in Summer and Smoke - 20/03/18

Daily Telegraph (pictures by Marc Brenner)

Feature: The Physicist as rock star - on the late Stephen Hawking - 15/03/18

Evening Standard (but here from the Belfast Telegraph)

Feature: "I have hope" - Arinze Kene on Misty and the life of a black artist - 10/03/18

Observer (pictures by Tristram Kenton)

Feature: Francisco Cantu on life as a US border guard 26/02/18

#112 - "Shows a cruel writer to his very best advantage" - theatre review, Summer and Smoke 08/03/18

Almeida Theatre

#111 - "Rich, affecting, arresting" - theatre review, Fanny and Alexander 02/03/18

#110 - "A hot mess, just like the original" - theatre review, Jubilee 01/03/18

Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

Feature: Cressida Bonas on acting, family and Harry (not that one) 01/03/18

The Times (pictures by Chris McAndrew)

#109 - "Great physical precision and emotional truth" - Theatre review, Girls & Boys, 27/02/18

Royal Court Theatre

#108 - "lovely and loving" - theatre review, The York Realist 23/02/18

Donmar Warehouse

#107 - "Clumsy and ungiving" - Theatre review, Frozen, 22/02/18

Theatre Royal Haymarket

Feature: "Ed Sheeran had four helpings ot sausages" - Jessie Ware on motherhood, music and running a foodie podcast with her mum 15/02/18

The Times (picture: Ollie Grove)

#106 - "A whimper, not a bang" - theatre review, The Captive Queen, 14/02/18

Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe

Feature: Marines, masculinity and me - Matt Young on life in the corps

The Times (Pic: Michael Hanson)

#105 - "Lesley Manville gives Mary Tyrone a lambent intensity" - theatre review, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Wyndham's Theatre

#104 - "Hayley Atwell - all raptor smirks and does-not-compute tics" - theatre review, Dry Powder

Hampstead Theatre

#103 - restaurant review, Mookrata

Above Shuang Shuang, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6LU

#102 - "Sheer direct force" - Theatre review, Julius Caesar 01/02/2018

Feature: Mrs Trump's Diary- the inside of Melania's head imagined 02/02/18

Evening Standard

Feature: Trauma star Jade Anouka on gender, ethnicity, and the poetry of South London 01/02/18

Evening Standard (pictures by Matt Writtle)

#101 - "Recreated and rejuvenated" - restaurant review, Joe Allen 25/01/2018

2 Burleigh St WC2E 7PX

#100 - "Delicate interactions to savour" - theatre review, John, 25/01/2018

National Theatre, Dorfman

#99 - "Stylish, menacing, funny" - theatre review, The Birthday Party 24/01/2018

Harold Pinter Theatre

#98 - "Exquisitely tooled but stiff" - theatre review, Lady Windermere's Fan 23/01/2018

Vaudeville Theatre

Feature: "Who is this Davros guy" - Trump's first visit to the WEF imagined 22/01/2018

Evening Standard (illustration: Paul Dallimore)

Feature: Why Vauxhall is too good for Trump 12/01/2018

Evening Standard

Feature: "A national treasure in stealth mode" - Samantha Spiro on Oscar Wilde and the world her daughters will inherit 11/01/2018

Evening Standard (picture by Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures)

Feature: "It's where you'd take people you want to sleep with" - the return of Kettner's - 12/01/2018

Evening Standard

Feature: "I have an itchy brain" - Stephen Mangan on Pinter, producing and parenting 2/01/2018

Evening Standard (pictures: Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures)

Feature: "You're only 40 once" - Erin O'Connor on age, image, family and "extreme elongation" 30/12/2017

The Times (pic: Camera Press)

#97 - "What a let-down. ONLY JOKING!!!" Theatre review, Hamilton, 22/12/2017

Victoria Palace Theatre

#96 - "Poots and Norton lift a slightly overwrought psychodrama" - theatre review, Belleville, 22/12/2017

Donmar Warehouse

#95 - "Richly atmospheric but needs cutting" - theatre review, The Grinning Man 21/12/17

Trafalgar Studios

#94 - "Urgent, sprawling, necessary" - theatre review, The Jungle 19/12/17

Feature: From Moggmania to Markle - the Quiz of the Year 18/12/17

Evening Standard (illustration by Paul Dallimore)

Feature: Snow, Tory Rebels and Youthquake - the week's news digested by Gerald Scarfe and me 15/12/2017

Evening Standard

#93 - "Arch, awkward homage to a TV classic" - theatre review, The Twilight Zone 15/12/2017

Almeida Theatre

Feature: Ding Dong Merrily Your Highness - Meghan's Christmas with the Queen imagined 14/12/2017

Feature: Take Two - my longer Glenda Jackson interview for the Standard Theatre Awards 14/12/2017

Feature: Tom Fletcher on McFly, musicals and acting with his missus 13/07/2017

Evening Standard

Feature: Rebel with a Cause - Chef Tom Sellers, 06/12/17

Feature: "I haven't seen a play for 25 years" - Glenda Jackson on gender, politics and her Evening Standard best actress award 05/12/17

Evening Standard (picture: Dave Benett)

#92 - "It belongs to the bellowing, spraying Ifans" - theatre review, A Christmas Carol 05/12/2017

Feature: "I thought, leave theatre to the people who know what they're doing" - Imogen Poots on Belleville 30/11/2017

Evening Standard (picture by Matt Writtle)

Feature: Celebrities and other animals - this year's Christmas biography roundup 30/11/2017

Evening Standard

Feature: "I'm happy to be a dirty, filthy, secret pleasure" - James Blunt 25/11/2017

#91 - "Clever, witty, slightly too pleased with itself" - theatre review, The Secret Theatre, 23/11/17

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Feature: The next generation - this year's nominees for the Evening Standard's Emerging Talent Theatre Award 23/11/17

Evening Standard (picture: Alamy)

#90 - "Good-hearted, but there's not enough at stake", theatre review, Everybody's Talking About Jamie 22/11/17

Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue

Feature: "Unaccountable power is the root of all evil" - playwright Anders Lustgarten 22/11/17

Evening Standard (picture: Ella Sadika/Shakespeare's Globe)

Feature: "I'm an embarrassment - get me in there". The people we'd REALLY like to see in the jungle 22/11/17

Evening Standard (illustration by Paul Dallimore)

#89 - "Wonderful and necessary" - theatre review, The Suppliant Women 20/11/17

Feature: Ben Whishaw on Paddington, coming out and why he hates marmalade 18/11/17

Feature: Chef Nobu on food, life, and being "married" to de Niro 16/11/17

The Times (picture: Getty)

#88 - "Thrilling, dazzling, pleased with itself" - theatre review, Network 13/11/17

National Theatre

#87 - "A pleasure to see, and hear" - theatre review, Glengarry Glen Ross, 12/11/17

Playhouse Theatre

Feature: Fifty years of Gilbert & George 08/11/17

ES Magazine (photographs by Tobias Lewis Thomas)

Feature: Top Trumps - can you pass the presidential quiz, a year after the election 8/11/2017

Evening Standard (illlustration by Paul Dallimore)

Feature: "How did it happen?" - Volker Kutscher on Sky's adaptation of his interwar Berlin novels - 5/11/2017

Radio Times (Pictures: Sky)

Feature: "What's not to like" - my interview with Ken Bruce 31/10/17

#86 - "Go now" - restaurant review, Rochelle Canteen

#85 - "Exquisitely crafted, exquisitely excruciating" - theatre review, Beginning 02/11/2017

National Theatre, Dorfman

#84 - "Very sweet, bordering on sickly" - theatre review, Romantics Anonymous

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

#83 - "A swaggering start" - theatre review, Young Marx

#82 - "Ambitious, thoughtful but slightly forced" - theatre review, Albion, 31/10/17

Almeida Theatre

#81 - "The fish tank doesn't help" - theatre review, The Lady from the Sea, 24/10/2017

Donmar Warehouse

#80 - "Preposterous and absurdly enjoyable" - theatre review, Venus in Fur 18/10/2017

Theatre Royal Haymarket

Feature: "Remember, you can't drown from waterboarding" - a belated posting for my scary encounter with ex-SAS man Chris Ryan 10/10/17

The Times (pictures by James Clarke)

#79 - "Humane but needs more focus" - Theatre review, A Woman of No Importance 17/10/17

Vaudeville Theatre

Feature: Beijing vs Shanghai - a tale of two cities 16/10/17

Evening Standard

Feature: Wilde about Oscar - Eve Best on A Woman of No Importance 16/10/17

Evening Standard (Pictures by Vicki Couchman)

Feature: Why 50 is the new 21, birthday-wise 14/10/17

Telegraph (Picture: Instagram)

Feature: How hot chef Nuno Mendes made Portuguese food cool 12/10/17

The Times (pictures by Katie Wilson)

#78 - "Fundamentally slight" - theatre review, Heisenberg 13/10/17

Wyndham's Theatre

#77 - "Hilarious theatrical gold" - theatre review, Young Frankenstein 12/10/17

Garrick Theatre

Feature: Nick, Nick - Hytner and Starr on the new Bridge Theatre 10/10/17

Evening Standard (picture by Helen Maybanks)

#76 - "Like listening to poetry during a firework display" - theatre review, Wings 11/10/17

#75 - "Defeating" - theatre review, Victory Condition 10/10/17

Royal Court Theatre

Feature: It's all Greek - millionaire restaurateur Peter Waney's new venture 05/10/17

The Times (pictures by Chris McAndrews)

#74 - "An expression of a futuristic dystopia?", dance review, Autobiography 05/10/17

#73 - "Explosive denouement can't arrive soon enough" - theatre review, B 04/10/17

#72 - "Funny and sad, complicated and flawed" - theatre review, Labour of Love 04/10/17

Noel Coward Theatre

Feature: Pacy, well-researched, leaden - first review of Dan Brown's Origin 02/10/17

Evening Standard

Feature: The Seven signs you're becoming grumpy old man 01/10/17

Sunday Telegraph

Feature: Scarfe's Week - Merkel's pain and Labour gains 30/09/17

Evening Standard

#71 "I lost myself in it" - dance review, Debut, Acosta Danza 29/09/17

Feature: Hugh Hefner - the Victor Frankenstein of smut? 28/09/17

Evening Standard

Feature: Red Letter Days - the A-Z of the Labour Party Conference 27/09/17

Evening Standard (pictures: Reuters)

#70 - "An opportunity myth-ed" - theatre review, Boudica 27/09/17

Shakespeare's Globe

Feature: From Storm Boris to Korean dick-swinging - Scarfe's week (his image, my words)

Evening Standard

#69 - "Extraordinary physical and emotional precision" - Oslo review - 22/09/17

National Theatre

#68 - "Subverts America's lascivious cannibalisation of its showbiz past" - Follies review - 22/09/17

National Theatre

Feature: Scarfe Ace - cartoonist Gerald on politics, cruelty and drinking Special Brew with Roger Waters 20/09/17

Evening Standard (pictures by Daniel Hambury)

Feature: Robert Webb on his eye-poppingly honest memoir of masculinity 20/09/17

Feature: "I haven't had a facelift... I had my ears enlarged." - Martin Clunes 09/09/17

The Times (pictures by Neale Haynes)

#67 - "Lively, warm, slightly too good to be true" - theatre review, Lions and Tigers 06/09/17

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

#66 - "Featherlight, nuanced, textured, idiosyncratic" - theatre review, Against 06/09/17

Almeida Theatre

#65 - "Doh, of course it should be done al fresco"- theatre review, King Lear 01/09/17

Shakespeare's Globe

Feature: "The hardest thing I've ever done" - Toby Stephens on Oslo, fatherhood, and his famous family - 31/08/17

Evening Standard (pictures: Brinkhoff-Moegenburg)

#65 - "Simple, rough theatre, deftly directed but given a kicking" (1/2) - theatre review, Knives in Hens, 30/08/17

Donmar Warehouse

#64 - "Simple, rough theatre, deftly directed but given a kicking" (2/2) - theatre review, Knives in Hens, 30/08/17

Donmar Warehouse

Feature: Quiz: Which trolley type are you? - 30/08/2017

Evening Standard

Feature: "There's no glory in brutality" - Gina McKee on Boudica - 30/08/17

Evening Standard (pictures by Daniel Hambury)

Feature: Jollity on tap - Tui's new Mediterranean cruise - 23/08/17

Feature: "it only takes four muscles to punch someone in the face" - why it's positive to be negative - 29/08/17

Evening Standard (illus: Uninspirational)

Feature: "If I don't get a Michelin star I'll f***ing shoot myself" - Chris Denney of 108 Garage - 23/08/17

Evening Standard (pictures by Adrian Lourie)

Feature: "We are conscious of the fantastic legacy dad had" - the Wogan boys' Homeslice venture - 17/08/2017

The Times (pictures by Katie Wilson

Feature: Five sharp takes on Trump's America with a sci-fi twist - Tom Rachman's Basket of Deplorables 17/08/17

Evening Standard

Feature: "I'm baggy and old" - Dominic Cooper 12/08/17

The Times (pictures by Chris McAndrew)

Feature: "Laughter goes as deep as weeping" - director Yael Farber on Knives in Hens 10/08/17

Evening Standard (pictures by Daniel Hambury)

#63 - "It'd be gimmicky if everything were not both beautiful and delicious" - restaurant review, Magpie 08/08/17

#62 - "A beady role that Stockard Channing can and does play effortlessly" - theatre review, Apologia 08/08/17

Trafalgar Studios

Feature: On being a man at 26 and (almost) 52 04/08/17

Evening Standard (pictures by Daniel Hambury)

#61 - "Chips, shagging, burglary and sick" - theatre review, Road, 03/08/17

Royal Court Theatre

#60 - "Shouty, dense, intriguing" - theatre review, Mosquitoes, 03/08/2017

National Theatre, Dorfman

Feature: Bluffer's Guide to summer's best books 31/07/17

Evening Standard

Feature: Arlene Phillips - "I've always been affected by tragedies" 29/07/2017

The Times (pictures by Chris McAndrew)

Feature: John Gordon Sinclair - I want people to get a "big old slap in the face" when they read my new thriller - 28/07/2017

#59 - "Brilliant, intuitive, deeply affecting" - theatre review, Girl from the North Country, 28/07/2017

#58 - "This show goes up to 11" - theatre review, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 27/07/2017

Feature: Can Michelle Terry save Shakespeare's Globe? 25/07/2017

Evening Standard

#57 - "Exquisite comic timing and wrenching sadness" - theatre review, Much Ado About Nothing, 27/07/2017

Shakespeare's Globe

Feature: "The worst thing I did" - Jessica Ennis-Hill on pregnancy, marriage, and childhood scrapes - 22/07/2017

~The Times (pictures: Getty)

#56 - "Culinary alchemy at work" - restaurant review, Rigo, 27/07/2017

277 New King's Rd SW6 4RD

Feature: Cabinet of Thrones - how Westminster echoes Westeros 18/07/2017

Evening Standard

#55 - "Rough magic battles hi-tech" - theatre review, The Tempest

Barbican Theatre

#54 - "Those outside the metropolitan bubble would find it exasperating" - theatre review, Committee 16/07/2017

Donmar Warehouse

#53 - "Stagey and lacklustre" - Theatre review, Queen Anne 16/07/2017

Theatre Royal, Haymarket

Feature: How morally unacceptable is your lifestyle? 12/07/2017

Evening Standard

#52 - "Short and savagely blunt" - theatre review, Bodies, 14/07/2017

Royal Court Theatre

Feature: Slow boat through a microcosm of contemporary China - cruising the Yangtze's Three Gorges 13/07/2017

Feature: "It's a Paul thing" - clashing with Bake Off's speed-freak silverback 08/07/2017

#51 - "Crackles with sex, threat and conflicted loyalties" - The Ferryman - 29/06/2017

Gielgud Theatre

Feature: Joanna Lumley on opera, the garden bridge, and what she'd do as Prime Minister 29/06/2017

Evening Standard (pictures by Daniel Hambury)

#50 - Bravo Audra: Poor Billie - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill - 28/06/2017

Wyndham's Theatre

Feature: Pidgin to Magpie - James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy - 15/06/2017 (missed this one's appearance so posting it late)

The Times (pictures by Nathan Pask)

Feature: "I'm not censorious about porn but I draw the line at kissing" - me (and five others) on the boundaries of infidelity - 28/06/2017

Telegraph (pictures by Showtime)

#49 - "The Fleet Street Faustus" - Ink - 27/06/2017

Almeida Theatre

Feature: The Year Glasto went Red - 26/06/2017

Evening Standard (illustration by Paul Dallimore)

Feature: "I don't know what rock 'n' roll is" - Jo Whiley - 24/06/2017

The Times (picture by Ray Burminston)

Feature: "I'm interested in telling female stories" - Marianne Elliott - 22/06/2017

Evening Standard

#48 - "Galvanisingly surprising" - Gloria - 21/06/2017

Hampstead Theatre

#47 - "Knockabout and perfect for a summer evening" - Tristan and Yseult

Shakespeare's Globe

Feature: More than a Muse - RIP Anita Pallenberg

Evening Standard (picture: Larry Ellis/Express/Getty Images)

#46 - "Achingly sad and technically brilliant" - Anatomy of a Suicide

Royal Court Theatre

Feature: A Tale of Two Premiers - some jokes on the May/Macron meeting

Evening Standard (illustration by Paul Dallimore)

Feature: "I went on Tinder and it was hilarious" - Will Young

The Times (pictures by Michael Leckie)

Feature: Life in the People's Republic of Kensington (with jokes)

Evening Standard (illustration by Paul Dallimore)

#45 - "Boyega's descent is transfixing" - Woyzeck

#44 - "Timely celebration of science over dumb belief" - Galileo

#43 - "Standout beans and rum baba" - Westerns Laundry

34 Drayton Park, N5 1PB

Feature: "Make 'em laugh twice, cry once, and get the hell off" - the perfect best man's speech

Feature: "I haven't got the stamina I had at 30" - Alan Titchmarsh

The Times (pictures by Chris McAndrew)

#42 - "Unroadworthy comic vehicle" - Lettice and Lovage

Menier Chocolate Factory

#41 - Chips with everything - celebrating London's historic cheap eateries

Rock and Soul Plaice, Endell St

#40 - "Sprawling, over-the-top brio" - Angels in America

National Theatre, Lyttelton

Feature: "I really did almost despair of humanity" - Andrew Norfolk on the story behind Rotherham child abuse drama Three Girls

Feature: Can you teach equality to boys?

The Times (pictures by Alun Callender

#39 - "Great nosh" - Monty's Deli

227-229 Hoxton Street

Feature: Stand tall, Poppy - the elder model Delevingne goes into acting

ES Magazine (pictures by Benjamin Mallek)

#38 - "Brutally funny, focused and provoking" - Consent

National Theatre, Dorfman

Feature: From Pret to Itsu - Julian Metcalfe

The Times (pictures by Katie Wilson)

#37 - "Episodic, ritualistic, slow" - Salome

National Theatre, Olivier

Feature: "My leg was bending the wrong way and in the wrong place" - Charley Boorman's road to recovery

Feature: "My 20s were really wild..." - Jaime Winstone

The Times (pictures by Zac Frackelton)

Feature: Hello Sailor - how The Crown made Prince Philip His Royal Hotness

Evening Standard

Feature: Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough

Evening Standard

#36 - "Superb and timely" - The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Donmar Warehouse

Feature: "We need to keep looking back on history and not make the same mistakes" - Sharon D Clarke Q&A (phot0s by Tristram Kenton)

#35 - "Bracingly disconcerting" - The Treatment

Almeida Theatre

#34 - "Tiresomely overblown goth-emo-clown reading" - Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's Globe

#33 - "Opulent, decadent, ravishing, brilliant"

Feature: How to survive the Electiopocalypse

Evening Standard

Feature: "I didn't think I'd be this lucky" - Rachael Stirling

Daily Telegraph

Feature: "I was diagnosed with autism at 45" - Laura James

The Times (pictures by Jooney Woodward)

#32 - "Agreeable but lacks conviction" - The Philanthropist

Trafalgar Studios

Feature: "Legs-it for the lads" - male politicians objectified

Evening Standard

#31 - "Do gallerists plan colourful exhibitions for the Spring?" - Howard Hodgkin Portraits/Eduardo Paolozzi

National Portrait Gallery/whitechapel Gallery

#30 - "Beautifully planned, engrossing" - The Japanese House: Architecture and Life After 1945

Barbican Art Gallery

#29 - "An Utter Delight" - An American in Paris

Dominion Theatre

#28 - "Treats women like Kleenex" - Don Juan in Soho

Wyndham's Theatre

Feature: Can Science Survive in a post-truth world - Professor Brian Cox

Telegraph (pictures by Andrew Crowley)

Feature: It's very touchy and very smelly - Tim Webb of Oily Cart Theatre

#27 - "Simply Overwhelming" - Ten Days, Six Nights (BMW Live) and Wolfgang Tillmans

#26 - Arguably the most exciting show in town - The Kid Stays in the Picture

Royal Court Theatre

Feature: "London has been here before and it will rally and rebound"

Evening Standard

Feature: Simple Artistry from a Master Chef - Monica Galetti's first restaurant Mere

Evening Standard (pictures by Matt Writtle)

Feature: In a nanny state? - My spoof of the Brexit-Britain Mary Poppins sequel

Evening Standard (illustration by Paul Dallimore)

Feature: "People started screaming" - the Costa Concordia pianist

The Times (Pictures by Michael Leckie)

#25 - "Angry or obliquely sad" - The American Dream: Pop to the Present

Feature: "The sky lights up with a ball of fire" - Lindsey Ferrentino Q&A

Feature: Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on the sharing economy and glazed pink biscuits

Daily Telegraph

#24 - "Clumsily engineered and overblown" - Seventeen

Lyric Hammersmith

Feature: Suck it up snowflake - how populist-correct are you?

#23 - "Cloth-eared, clod-hopping but essential" - My Country; a work in progress

National Theatre

Feature: Talking beef with Mr Meat

Feature: How London's 'agonisingly cool' shared office went global

Evening Standard

#22 - "Extraordinary tale of influence, affection and shifting artistic tides" - Michelangelo & Sebastiano

National Gallery

#21 - "Exuberant, panto-style polemic" - The Miser

Garrick Theatre

#20 - "Tragicomic psychodrama goes up to 11" - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Harold Pinter Theatre

Feature: Time to repeal Obamawear - the male, sartorial midlife crisis

#19 - Limehouse:

Donmar Warehouse

#18 - "Machine gunned by bon mots as sweet at bonbons" - Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead, starring Daniel Radcliffe

Feature: How to lose 8lb in nine days

Daily Mail (pictures by Ki Price/emulsion London)

# 17 - Othello: revisionist, sometimes potent, sometimes downright silly

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe

#16 - "Clever and compassionate" - Ugly Lies the Bone

National Theatre, Lyttelton

#15 - 221b or not 221b? Andrew Scott's Hamlet

Almeida Theatre

Feature: So, just how microaggressive are you really?

Evening Standard

Feature: "I thought I was an idiot - I still do." Helen Mirren

The Times (photos by Flavien Prioreu for Prince's Trust and L'Oreal Paris's All Worth it Programme)

#14 - Cut back, dirtied down, alternate realities: A Midsummer Night's Dream

#13 - A sweet and finely comically calibrated Twelfth Night

National Theatre, Olivier

#12 - The Wild Party and America After the Fall (and the links between them)

The Other Palace/The Royal Academy

#11 - Review: See Me Now

Interview: Mary Beard - "Feminist play? Get real, sunshine."

Evening Standard (Pictures by Daniel Hambury)

Interview: Lucy Worsley - "My lisp seems to enrage people"

The Times (pictures by Olivia Beasley)

Terra Incognita - Here Be Dragons

Tower Bridge Bascule Chambers (aka the most dramatic space in London...)

Feature: The model pair making raw cake for the fash pack

The Times (pictures courtesy of the Hardihood)

Interview: Leanne Cope - a Brit Ballerina in An American in Paris

Evening Standard (picture by Matthew Murphy)

Feature: I wish I could... drink like a girl

London's oldest picture palace

Regent St Cinema

Interview: Sofie Grabol - Figure of Fortitude (pictures by Zac Frackelton

Interview: Orlando von Einsiedel - "The message of compassion that the White Helmets live and breathe is so important.”

The Times (pictures by Chris McAndrew)

The Archeology of Crossrail (ho hum) and the new Canary Wharf (ooh!)

Museum of London/Canary Wharf Station

The Glass Menagerie (2/5)

Duke of York's Theatre

Feature: The Rolling Stepsons' burger gamble

The Times (pictures by Katie Wilson)

Revolution - Russian Art 1917-1932

Royal Academy of Arts

David Hockney - a retrospective riot of joy at Tate Britain

Feature: Andrew Marr - My stroke improved my marriage

Radio Times (in Guardian write-off; can't find full interview online so you'll have to buy the mag)

Feature: Denise Gough - No Angel

Feature: "A daft idea pulled of with considerable with and brio"

Evening Standard

The White Devil: Review

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe

Feature: Is the office whip-round leaving you out of pocket?

Feature: Frances Ruffelle - dancing on the edge

Evening Standard

Feature: The £1 Meal Man speaks (and cooks for me)

Feature: Traipsing After the Trumps - Theresa does Washington (or, satire tries to keep up with reality...)

Feature: Can the tummy doctor’s diet make your husband less grumpy?

Feature: Will cooking on a salt slab make the perfect steak?

Evening Standard

Comus - a Masque in Honour of Chastity

Shakespeare’s Globe

Interview: Natascha McElhone: ‘I hope Designated Survivor explores my character’

Evening Standard

Interview: Alan Davies: 'Frustration and rage and feelings of inadequacy give me my best material'

Interview: Rufus Norris on the National Theatre's new season

Evening Standard

The Savoy Hotel

All the angels: Handel and the first Messiah

Shakespeare's Globe

Interview: Kate Beckinsale makes a triumphant return to London with Love and Friendship

Evening Standard

Interview: Sam Neill’s double life - as a vigneron

Interview: Heston Blumenthal talks about winning back his Michelin stars

Feature: If the over-50s abandon cities then it's bad for everyone

Feature: Insider's guide to Broadway