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How important is recruiting for your company at this time? Is the 'hesitation' in today's economy causing you to place less emphasis on getting the right people for your organization? [...]

Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London Through Feb. 3 There's no people like show people? London's theater establishment obviously hopes the public thinks so as a fourth production about the acting profession [...]

Rickman, Duncan redefine classic roles in West End's classiest show Seventy years after 'Private Lives' was first produced, the ghost of Noel Coward no longer haunts the play. The author [...]

Get creative to keep your firm's top performers Think there's no need to worry about employee retention anymore? Fewer positions being filled is what you're reading everywhere, demand is down [...]

BILL HAGERTY on the week the papers went to war Long before the dust had settled over the rubble of the World Trade Center, the drivel began. The initial outstanding [...]

Lyric Theatre, London Through Dec. 22 Arriving in the wake of the Sept. 11 tragedies, this revival of an American classic might have ended up being considered as no more [...]

on how British journalism conveyed raw emotion The tabloid production executive was enjoying a day off and on his way to Sainsbury's when his mobile telephone trilled in his pocket. [...]

Most American of shows gets rapturous reception in world premiere It has been a long walk up the aisle for 'Peggy Sue Got Married.' Born as a Hollywood movie in [...]

BILL HAGERTY on how a bunch of unlikely bedfellows undermined Michael Portillo There are those who will consider the Sunday Telegraph's lead story claiming that Margaret Thatcher was supporting Michael [...]

BILL HAGERTY asks if Sunday Times readers have noticed that it is now an outsized tabloid In an issue of one of Britain's most successful newspapers, randomly selected, the modern [...]

BILL HAGERTY finds an ailing child kicking sand at its rivals The Independent on Sunday, the Oliver Twist of the national newspaper workhouse, has been through more changes than most [...]

BILL HAGERTY on the broadsheets' new love affair with sport They all laughed when the late Bill Shankly said: 'Some people think football is a matter of life and death [...]

BILL HAGERTY supports investigative journalism even when it just turns over twits The News of the World's Mazher Mahmood in fancy dress ought to be as conspicuous as Mr Blobby [...]

BILL HAGERTY praises the 'lovely nuts and gorgeous crackpots' of Fleet Street An Observer poll reveals that our national image of ourselves as a high-minded and confident race is starkly [...]

BILL HAGERTY on two newspapers to which hardly anybody now pays attention There is something terribly wrong at the Independent. It is not that it is a bad newspaper. It [...]

MEDIA Dame Rebekah Wade? Sir Piers Morgan? Not very likely, reports BILL HAGERTY How down in the dumps some of the Fourth Estate's finest must have felt over the New [...]

BILL HAGERTY on the decline of the female editor As she lies restless at night, pondering her future as editor of the Daily Express, Rosie Boycott may reflect that the [...]

MEDIA BILL HAGERTY tells the new proprietor how to turn the Express into a Big One I have never edited the Daily Express. At least, I don't think I have. [...]

BILL HAGERTY on how the Daily Mail's owners could make history and mischief Those familiar with the early Stars Wars movies will remember Chewbacca, the furry giant friend of Hans [...]

In the national newspapers, all's fair in love and war, except in love. When it comes to affairs of the heart, or even cases of good old-fashioned illicit nooky, there [...]

BILL HAGERTY finds murky secrets behind massaged circulation figures When he wrote: 'Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying [...]

These are gloomy times indeed for Mohamed Fayed. Despite his vigorous pursuit of both British nationality and ownership of a national newspaper, it was reported last weekend that the Foreign [...]

There hasn't been as much blood spilt in Scotland since Bannockburn. So violently have Martin Clarke at the Daily Record and Rebecca Hardy at the Scotsman wielded their broadswords that [...]

There are, as Disraeli did not say, three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and newspaper circulation figures. The Audit Bureau of Circulations report for last month shows that most [...]

It has been a bad week for Dr Spin. So sickly has he looked at times that it seemed the attentions of a physician of the non-spin variety might be [...]

There are journalists who are unable, or sometimes unwilling, to recognise a story even when it all but walks up, introduces itself and helps sharpen a pencil. These journalists are [...]

The resemblance is remarkable--the voice, especially, is almost identical, and Natasha Richardson looks and moves a lot like her mother. And in the reopening production of a revamped North London […]

Michael Grandage, in his first production as artistic director at the acclaimed Donmar Warehouse following the majestic reign of Sam Mendes, shows every sign of maintaining that venue's lofty reputation. […]

Dogs and Lampposts Richard Stott Metro Publishing, 384pp, £17.99 www.newstatesman.co.uk/bookshop The legend at the top of Richard Stott's weekly column in the Sunday Mirror used to read: 'his bite's as [...]

How did life treat Sonya Serebriakova and Andrey Prozorov, two all-time great losers, in the 20 years following their disappointments in, respectively, 'Uncle Vanya' and 'Three Sisters'? According to brilliant [...]

Sam Mendes dominated the London entertainment skyline like a giant fireworks display after the opening of his penultimate theater production at the renowned Donmar was followed 24 hours later by [...]

It is, as playwright John Kolvenbach has acknowledged, easier for off-Broadway writers to reach the theatrical big time by crossing the Atlantic both ways, rather than raking a cab to [...]

Despite turning London's most beautiful theatrical setting-the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park-into an artistic powerhouse and dispatching several recent productions on lucrative tours, Ian Talbot has yet to score [...]

LONDON -- An ecstatic first-night audience rose to pay homage to 'We Will Rock You,' a new musical written around the songs of the rock band Queen, as if Queen [...]

Having shipped a half-dozen of its peerless productions to Broadway -- 'Cabaret,' 'The Blue Room' and 'The Real Thing' among the hits -- the powerhouse Warehouse in London's Covent Garden [...]

Two related movie stars stole the acting honors on opening night of Peter Hall's patchy revival of Oscar Wilde's 'Lady Windermere's Fan.' But these were not the dynastic mother and [...]

LONDON -- An enchanted evening it might be, but Trevor Nunn's expansive, expensive revival of 'South Pacific' sometimes seems as though it might drag on into a very long night [...]

The popular view as to why 'No Man's Land' is the least revived of Harold Pinter's plays is that the original 1975 production, starring a brace of theatrical knights, Sirs [...]

It's impossible to make a dead duck fly. At least that was the conclusion by those recalling Hal Prince's original production of 'Pacific Overtures' in 1976 -- entire investment lost […]

During the first of three acts of 'The Master Builder,' Anthony Page's plodding production displays all the signs of being a touring production you wish had taken the bypass. Only […]

American playwright and screenwriter John Guare ('Six Degrees of Separation') has done a masterly job in fusing together Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 'The Front Page,' the greatest-ever play […]

In 1866, when Henril llbsen established his name overnight as a serious writer with the publication of his first epic narrative poem, it had the impact of 'a bomb exploding […]

Forget the enigmatic No, don't forget the enigmatic title. It can only be Franco Zeffirelli's omnipotence--and adapter Martin Sherman's whimsy--that dictated what once was known as 'Right You Are (If […]