Phil Willmott
06 Dec
Reviews 
Review: PETER PAN at The National Theatre
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, December 6 2016, 13:04
The story of a puckish, eternal child, Peter Pan, who lures three Edwardian kids to fly away to a fantasy adventure on an island is so ubiquitously a part of the British Christmas that London even has PETER PAN GOES WRONG at the Apollo Theatre which pastiches it.
25 Nov
News
Enjoy a Broadway Christmas for one night in London
By Phil Willmott Friday, November 25 2016, 15:26
For a a year or so now Freddie Tapner's 32-strong London Musical Theatre Orchestra have met in private to play through some of the great musical theatre scores for their own pleasure.
Recently they made their first public appearance when they presented a concert staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's STATE FAIR at the Cadogan Hall.
25 Nov
New Shows
Carousel follows Sweeney and Boulevard to English National Opera
By Phil Willmott Friday, November 25 2016, 14:57
The enterprising producers begin this years critically acclaimed production of SUNSET BOULEVARD starring Glenn Close and the previous years mega-revival of SWEENEY TODD have just announced that their next collaboration with English National Opera at the Coliseum will be CAROUSEL. This revival of the much loved Rodgers and Hammerstein classic from 1945 will star Alfie Boe and Catherine Jenkins.
22 Nov
Reviews
Review: HALF A SIXPENCE at the Noel Coward Theatre
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, November 22 2016, 11:47
They say the simple pleasures in life are the sweetest and it's certainly true of this revival of a lovely, heartwarming and unpretentious musical from a time when writers and composers simply aspired to make an audience smile and to send them home humming a song from the show.
The very slight plot is based on a novel by H.G Wells in which a shop boy, Arthur Kipps, inherits a fortune, and as a result chooses to marry outside his class before fate intervenes and all works out more satisfactorily. The message that money doesn't bring contentment is always popular for audiences living through tough times.
18 Nov
News
An undisputed theatrical masterpiece returns to the West End
By Phil Willmott Friday, November 18 2016, 20:28
Theatre is transitory. It's there and then it's gone.
Although there have been landmark productions which are widely regarded as having redefined the art form we usually have to take the word of those who were there.
However if you head to the Playhouse Theatre at the moment you can discover one of the most influential productions of the last 50 years, in the latest of many revivals, which demonstrates how striking it still is.
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