Phil Willmott
18 Mar
Reviews 
Review: THE PAINKILLER at the Garrick Theatre
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 18 2016, 09:41
Kenneth Branagh is certainly giving us a range of productions as part of his year long residency at the Garrick Theatre. We've had Shakespeare, Rattigan, new writing and now a farce.
How good a time you'll have at this latest offering, THE PAINKILLER, will depend on your sense of humour.
17 Mar
Reviews
Review: MISS ATOMIC BOMB at St James Theatre
By Phil Willmott Thursday, March 17 2016, 15:32
Miss Atomic Bomb is glamorous, funny and thoroughly wicked. Ignore the doom merchants, of which there have been plenty. The night after the press night, which I couldn't make and seems to have gone badly, the show was firing on all cylinders.
14 Mar
Reviews
Review: THE CAUSE at Jermyn Street Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, March 14 2016, 10:15
I love the little quirks of history that define us as the product of chaos rather than some grand scheme, so I've long been fascinated by the almost farcical circumstances surrounding the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, the event that precipitated the bloody muddle of the First World War.
Unbeknownst to each other two terrorist groups set out to assassinate him on that fateful day. One was organised by experienced Serbian militia but manned by incompetent students, the other incongruously consisted of young artists from Hungary. Although perhaps not that incongruously because a failed art student led the Nazi’s into the Second World War fighting allied forces led by an amateur painter.
11 Mar
News
Get ready for gender bending Shakespeare
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 11 2016, 10:08
It’s interesting how London Theatre goes through trends. Last year everyone was doing Greek drama this year there’s a rash of venues staging classics with women in Shakespeare roles written for men.
Tamsin Greig will play Malvolio in the National Theatre's forthcoming production of TWELFTH NIGHT.
11 Mar
News
A new regime brings musicals to the Charing Cross Theatre
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 11 2016, 09:57
Great news from the Charing Cross Theatre where my friends, the director Thom Southerland and producer Danielle Tarento are to helm a new season of musical theatre.
They kick off with a re-staging of their highly acclaimed production of TITANIC, originally seen at the Southwark Playhouse in 2013, revived with great success in Canada and long tipped for a central London run.
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