Phil Willmott
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.
02 Mar
News
John Hurt to Play Kenneth Branagh's Father at the Garrick
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, March 2 2016, 22:31
Actor / Director Kenneth Branagh’s PLAYS AT THE GARRICK season has really revitalised serious play going in the West End with a series of star led productions at the Garrick Theatre.
Audiences have already enjoyed Zoe Wanamaker, Judy Dench and Adrian Lester playing lead roles in great plays and it has now been announced that TV, Theatre and movie star John Hurt will join Kenneth Branagh as the father and son at the heart of John Osborne’s vintage eulogy for the death of Music Hall, THE ENTERTAINER.
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