Phil Willmott
18 Sep
Reviews 
Review: FOOTLOOSE at the Peacock Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, September 18 2017, 09:55
It’s always a pleasure to sit amidst an appreciative audience enjoying an uncomplicated fun night of theatre and that was certainly my experience at the Peacock this week where a touring production of the beloved movie musical ended its travels with a London run.
I must confess I’ve never seen the film on which it’s based but it’s the small town story of how a party loving teen, dates the ministers daughter, persuades him to overturn a ban on social dancing and... no, actually that’s it.
12 Sep
New Shows
Strictly Ballroom Dances its way into the West End
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, September 12 2017, 07:26
Ballroom Dancing fans and those who love a good Cinderella story will be delighted to hear that the stage version of much loved movie musical Strictly Ballroom is coming to the West End after it's National tour.
07 Sep
News
Berlin Cabaret comes to the West End.... and Wimbledon
By Phil Willmott Thursday, September 7 2017, 10:58
With the musical of Cabaret preparing to go back on tour why not satisfy your inner Sally Bowles and check out what's described as "Berlin's best burlesque act" when it stops off for one night at the rather glamorous cabaret room in the Hippodrome Casino just off Leicester Square.
01 Sep
News
Make a Date for Some Critically Acclaimed, Free, Open-Air Theatre, this Weekend
By Phil Willmott Friday, September 1 2017, 16:09
If you fancy some free, critically acclaimed open-air theatre over the next couple of days why not catch one of the last performances of my production of The Odyssey, a re-imagining of one of the world's greatest adventure stories.
Ancient Greece's epic text is presented as a thrilling open-air theatre experience played out in The Scoop amphitheatre overlooking Tower Bridge - and it's completely free.
31 Aug
Reviews
Review: LIONS AND TIGERS at The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe
By Phil Willmott Thursday, August 31 2017, 10:23
To mark the 70th anniversary of India’s independence the Globe theatre have commissioned playwright Tanika Gupta to dramatise key events in the lead up to the partition of what was formerly British India. As a central focus Gupta adapts her family history concerning her grandfather’s brother Dinesh, a Bengali revolutionary (or terrorist and would-be martyr depending on your perspective) drawing upon his letters written during imprisonment.
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