Phil Willmott
30 Mar
Casts 
New cast members join Aladdin and Harry Potter and The Cursed Child
By Phil Willmott Thursday, March 30 2017, 17:30
Two major West End productions have announced cast changes over the last few days.
I'm delighted to hear Jamie Glover will be taking over the lead role at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
29 Mar
New Shows
Move quickly to get tickets for the West End transfer of Andrew Scott’s HAMLET
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, March 29 2017, 16:12
It's no surprise that the Almeida Theatre is to transfer their smash hit production of Hamlet to the West End, starring Andrew Scott and Juliet Stephenson and directed by Robert Ike.
Ecstatically received by critics and those audiences who were able to get tickets for the premiere at the small Islington venue, it's fantastic that more people will be able to see it in the West End.
27 Mar
News
Saigon stumbles on Broadway whilst Paris soars in the West End
By Phil Willmott Monday, March 27 2017, 10:59
Often visitors from New York will ask me what theatre I'd recommend they see whilst in the U.K. And, honestly, that's quite a difficult question to answer. So many hit shows have either already been seen in New York or are about transfer there.
This cross-fertilisation began in the late 1980s, a strange decade in the history of New York musicals when they weren't producing anything of note whilst the British were dominating the world with Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals like Cats and Phantom of the Opera and mega hits also produced by Cameron Macintosh including Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, both of which earned their reputations in the West End before taking American Theatre by storm.
26 Mar
News
London Box Office Critic and Choreographer, Thomas Michael Voss, dies of Cancer
By Phil Willmott Sunday, March 26 2017, 18:12
It is with great sadness that I have to report the sudden death from cancer of London Box Office critic at the age of 42.
He regularly reported for us especially on new dance productions enriching our coverage of London Theatre.
22 Mar
News
Sir Ian McKellen to star in a fringe theatre fundraiser
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, March 22 2017, 11:51
When enterprising young theatre maker Jez Bond had the opportunity to build a smart new theatre behind Finsbury Park tube station he knew he'd need a lot of influential friends.
It's been extraordinary how successful he's been in involving all sorts of people from the industry, right from the beginning when may of us were invited to presentations of the plans and even site visits during the building process.
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