Phil Willmott
25 Sep
News 
Is There a New Gary Barlow Musical Heading for the West End?
By Phil Willmott Friday, September 25 2015, 09:53
The lead singer of long established boy band TAKE THAT hasn’t had a lot of luck with musical theatre so far. A jukebox show which he wasn’t involved with but which featured many of his songs was a tepid affair and his score for the Broadway musical FINDING NEVERLAND didn’t find favour with the New York critics and audiences have dwindled.
This next project sounds like a sure fire winner though.
24 Sep
Reviews
Review of The White Feather at the Union Theatre
By Phil Willmott Thursday, September 24 2015, 16:36
Musicals, of course, are what powers London’s West End and make it the multimillion pound industry that it is but until recently not enough attention was being paid to creating new ones and we were completely dependent on importing the latest Broadway hits.
Ironically enough this has been a reversal of how things were in the eighties and nineties when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Macintosh created shows in London and exported them to New York.
24 Sep
News
50th anniversary revival of Harold Pinter’s seriously creepy play, THE HOMECOMING
By Phil Willmott Thursday, September 24 2015, 15:50
Gemma Chan and John Simm lead the cast of the 50th anniversary revival of Harold Pinter’s seriously creepy play, THE HOMECOMING.
Since the Whitehall Theatre, once home to now unfashionable sex farces, was turned into the Trafalgar Studios no one’s been quite sure what to do with it.
It’s an awkward sized and shaped venue that doesn’t quite have enough capacity to make runs of commercial theatre a viable business proposition.
22 Sep
New Shows
Glenn Close is back on The Boulevard!
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, September 22 2015, 22:32
If there’s one thing better than enjoying the score of a classic musical it’s hearing it played live by a big orchestra. Throw a major star into the mix and the combination is irresistible.
That’s what happened last year when Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel dazzled London in a semi-staged production of Sondheim’s SWEENEY TODD for English National Opera (ENO) at the London Coliseum on St Martin’s Lane.
21 Sep
Reviews
Review: Jane Eyre at the National Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, September 21 2015, 07:27
Whilst the nineteenth century yielded few great plays it certainly provided a feast of fine novelists and Charlotte Bronte’s JANE EYRE has remained a firm favourite down the generations.
It’s been adapted for the stage and screen many, many times but few directors have had the opportunity Bristol’s Old Vic Theatre gave to rising star director, Sally Cookson.
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