Phil Willmott
23 Apr
News 
Producer Mark Sands tells us why his forthcoming production of THIS ISLAND'S MINE at The Kings Head Theatre means so much to him
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, April 23 2019, 14:35
In 1988, Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company toured their production of Philip Osment’s THIS ISLAND’S MINE to the Hornpipe Arts Centre in my hometown of Portsmouth. I was 19 and it was the first time I had ever seen a piece of ‘gay theatre’.
22 Apr
New Shows
Discover Theatre 503 and the Company Putting Women’s Voices “Centre Stage”
By Phil Willmott Monday, April 22 2019, 10:19
If you love London Theatre in all its variety, size, shape and form there’s always plenty explore beyond the bright lights of the West End.
One venue you might like to check out is Theatre 503 in Battersea, South London, particularly if you’re interested in new writing.
22 Apr
News
The Greenwich+Docklands International Festival Announce an Extraordinary line up of Free Summer Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, April 22 2019, 10:06
The Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) announced a full season of work providing Londoners with a feast of outdoor theatre and performing arts, performed across a multitude of sites, in two of the capital’s poorest boroughs which none-the-less are also home to individuals and corporations with enormous wealth. And for the first time it will also include the mighty City of London itself.
18 Apr
News
An Intriguing New Musical and its Classy Cast is Announced for Soho Theatre
By Phil Willmott Thursday, April 18 2019, 15:02
A great modern musical can engage the mind even as it captures our hearts and stirs our emotions. RENT, the much loved musical from the AIDS crisis is a very good example and HAMILTON has entertained as well as teaching a generation of young Broadway and West End theatre goers about America’s founding fathers.
12 Apr
Reviews
Second Look: EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE at the Apollo Theatre
By Phil Willmott Friday, April 12 2019, 09:49
Back in November 2017 I reported that this high-spirited musical was the “perfect way to lift the gloom with a reminder of decent British humanity that celebrates the individual spirit”.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Layton Williams as Jamie, Hayley Tamaddon as Miss Hedge & class
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