Phil Willmott
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.
04 Mar
New Shows
The National Theatre bring their latest hit to the West End
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 4 2016, 13:14
If anyone tells you that the West End is dumbing down point them in the direction of the Wyndham’s Theatre which is about to play host to a revival of the National Theatre's production of PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS.
It’s not a musical, it’s a serious and entertaining new play and such is the appetite for quality drama in London’s theatreland that the run has had to be extended. It’s now booking until 18 June 2016.
03 Mar
New Shows
Meet the New Guys and Dolls
By Phil Willmott Thursday, March 3 2016, 21:29
Who’d have thought that this season’s smash hit musical would be a show that’s nearly half a century old!
GUYS AND DOLLS which many people, including me, consider one of the greatest musicals ever written, has been constantly revived all over the world in major, community and school productions ever since its Broadway première in 1950.
03 Mar
New Shows
Political Satire Returns to the West End
By Phil Willmott Thursday, March 3 2016, 13:27
Satire and sketch comedy was a vital part of West End theatre in the 1960’s but we don’t see a great deal of it these days so I was surprised to hear that veteran director Max Stafford-Clark still regards it as “a pungent corrective to political pomposity and ambition.”
03 Mar
News
Game of Thrones Star, Kit Harington is the West End's Doctor
By Phil Willmott Thursday, March 3 2016, 09:47
Like so many people I’m a massive fan of the fantasy TV saga GAME OF THRONES so when it was announced that one of the show’s biggest stars, Kit Harington, who plays the central character Jon Snow, was to appear in the title role of DR FAUSTUS I knew there’d be a stampede at the box office.
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