Phil Willmott
25 Feb
News 
The West Ends new Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a revelation
By Phil Willmott Saturday, February 25 2017, 10:03
Tonight it was my privilege to watch the great actors Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill take their first stab at performing Edward Albee's masterpiece of marital disfunction , WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF in front of a London audience.
24 Feb
Reviews
Review: THE WILD PARTY at The Other Palace
By Phil Willmott Friday, February 24 2017, 18:09
This production of musical WILD PARTY is an extraordinary achievement by Paul Taylor Mills, an ambitious young producer and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s choice to Artistic Direct The Other Palace (formally the St James Theatre) which is to become a home for new and recent musicals.
20 Feb
News
Happy 800th performance to Showstoppers
By Phil Willmott Monday, February 20 2017, 23:35
On this site, a year or so ago I got very effusive about SHOWSTOPPERS, the group who improvised a different full length new musical at every single performance based on suggestions of subject, style and content from the audience.
19 Feb
News
Edward Fox brings poetry to the West End
By Phil Willmott Sunday, February 19 2017, 10:28
This one sounds like a classy if old fashioned evening.
Whilst Damian Lewis takes a week off from performing at the Haymarket Theatre due to prior commitments the 80 year old film, TV and stage star Edward Fox will return to the West End in a one man play about the former Poet Laureate John Betjeman.
17 Feb
News
Annie Returns to the West End
By Phil Willmott Friday, February 17 2017, 12:40
With Charlie and his Chocolate factory recently leaving the West End for Broadway it seems right that ANNIE, the archetype Broadway kids show will be revived in London to help fill demand for family shows.
Not that there's any shortage of productions competing for your family's money. Once they were few and far between but now most theatres present a daytime kids show, installed to be performed on top of the set for the evening show.
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