Phil Willmott
13 Aug
News 
Cameron Macintosh Announces New Plans for your Favourite West End Venues
By Phil Willmott Monday, August 13 2018, 09:41
Cameron Mackintosh is not only the producer of some of London and New York’s longest running mega-hits of the past 30 years, including PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and LES MIS, but they’ve made him wealthy enough to buy the very theatres where they’re performed. After the restoration of the Victoria Palace Theatre ahead of the opening of Hamilton, he’s announced Wyndham's, Noël Coward, Gielgud, the Novello and the Queen's Theatre will also undergo improvement.
10 Aug
Casts
The West End has Two New Leading Men
By Phil Willmott Friday, August 10 2018, 12:58
Producers are always looking for ways to refresh long running shows and the most tried and tested method is to cast performers who have public profile. Following this tradition two of the biggest shows in the West End at the moment PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and STRICTLY BALLROOM have announced newcomers to their cast who you may already have heard of.
01 Aug
Reviews
Review: FOR REASONS THAT REMAIN UNCLEAR at The Kings Head
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, August 1 2018, 16:10
In 1968 American playwright Mart Crowley secured his place in theatre and LGBT history with his ground breaking work THE BOYS IN THE BAND, the world’s first commercially successful play with openly gay characters. In this seminal work a group of men gather for a party and drink a lot, and say viscous things to each other (as we sometimes do). This is a later play, from 1993.
28 Jul
Reviews
Review: EXIT THE KING at The National Theatre
By Phil Willmott Saturday, July 28 2018, 11:46
Frustrating though it definitely becomes I think this is exactly the kind of play the National Theatre should be producing amidst their recent hit and miss new writing and box-office certs like FOLLIES and AMADEUS.
26 Jul
Casts
The Sexy Secret of Chicago’s Success
By Phil Willmott Thursday, July 26 2018, 10:58
New stars have just been announced for the West End musical Chicago.
The producers remind us “The show currently stars new wave pop star (Spandau Ballet) and Eastenders regular Martin Kemp as the razzle dazzling lawyer Billy Flynn. He will be in the London production until 1 September 2018.
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