Phil Willmott
02 Sep
New Shows 
An Exciting Autumn Line up at Trafalgar Studios
By Phil Willmott Friday, September 2 2016, 00:02
There are exciting rumours about the autumn season at Trafalgar studios with more details available soon. Here’s what we know so far!
The line up looks set to include BURIED CHILD, Sam Shepard’s gleefully gothic tale of dysfunctional rural American life.
01 Sep
News
Half a Sixpence comes to London
By Phil Willmott Thursday, September 1 2016, 15:10
I'm very excited to here at the Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of the classic British musical HALF A SIXPENCE is transferring to the West End.
It was a big hit in the West End and on Broadway in the 1960s and there was a popular film starring Tommy Steele but it’s always been a financial disaster when it’s been revived since. Regional tours and a big revival at West Yorkshire playhouse just didn’t attract an audience.
29 Aug
Reviews
Review: THEY DRINK IT IN THE CONGO at the Almeida Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, August 29 2016, 13:50
There’s a scene just before the interval of this harrowing, sometimes hilarious always illuminating play about conflict in the Congo which sums us just how complex the situation looks from a liberal western perspective.
A girl has been raped at gun point by rebel soldiers who have also forced her father to take part. A not uncommon experience in a country whose rebel fighters regularly use rape as a weapon. She lies shivering under a blanket and a waster aid worker urges a hysterical western observer to control her emotions and to only speak in a whisper.
29 Aug
New Shows
A Classy Theatrical Travesty Comes to London
By Phil Willmott Monday, August 29 2016, 07:03
If you enjoy a knotty intellectual work out from an evening in the theatre then you can be very excited by the announcement that the Menier Chocolate Factory will be reviving TRAVESTIES by Tom Stoppard. Previous Menier productions have ended up in the West End and on Broadway and the calibre of those involved in this revival suggest this latest show will do the same.
28 Aug
News
Vincent and Flavia Tango back into the West End, for one last time
By Phil Willmott Sunday, August 28 2016, 11:35
A big problem faced by TV celebrities is how to make best use of their fame when the on screen work dries up.
Two people who have made a great job of building on public adulation to branch out in their careers are Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace. They were hugely popular dancers in early seasons of STRICTLY COME DANCING and since leaving the show they have created three popular stage shows.
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