Phil Willmott
19 Dec
New Shows 
A West End Tale of Tina Turner Announced
By Phil Willmott Monday, December 19 2016, 12:00
Shows about real life pop and rock artists which include their greatest hits have been big business on Broadway and in London for a decade or so now and are popular with audiences who know they'll hear songs they already love.
14 Dec
News
Two Alternative London Christmas Shows
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, December 14 2016, 14:47
If big commercial shows and mainstream Christmas entertainment isn't your thing, London Theatre still has plenty of "alternative" choices. Here's two which are worth your attention.
14 Dec
Reviews
Review: SHE LOVES ME at the Menier Chocolate Factory
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, December 14 2016, 11:34
As I got up from my seat at the interval the word I kept hearing around me as the audience filed out to the bar was "lovely" and that one word summation is a pretty good description of the Menier Chocolate Factory's Christmas Show.
It's a revival of a 1963 Broadway musical and the story of how two shop clerks who despise each other end up writing anonymous love letters to each other when one of them replies to the other's lonely heart ad in the paper.
12 Dec
Reviews
Review: LIVING WITH THE LIGHTS ON at The Young Vic
By Phil Willmott Monday, December 12 2016, 12:42
Alone on a brightly lit stage for an hour and fifteen minutes Mark Lockyer bravely relates his real-life, horrific descent into manic depression, which resulted in the attempted incineration of an entire building of vulnerable people. It’s the stuff of nightmares, even of horror films.
09 Dec
Reviews
Review: ONCE IN A LIFETIME at the Young Vic
By Phil Willmott Friday, December 9 2016, 07:12
One of the greatest books about theatre and theatre people ever written is Moss Hart’s autobiography ACT ONE. In it he hilariously and vividly charts the progress of his play ONCE IN A LIFETIME from conception to Broadway hit thanks to re-writes made in collaboration with another legend of 1930s and 40s theatre George S Kaufman. It’s intoxicating and persuasive in the book but unfortunately, on stage, by modern standards it’s neither funny as a satire of Hollywood’s Golden age or emotionally engaging as the story of three friends from vaudeville theatre who try their luck in the early talking picture Industry.
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