By Phil Willmott Friday, November 4 2016, 15:37
The Menier Chocolate Factory's new production of Tom Stoppard's TRAVESTIES broke their box office records by selling out ahead of its first preview.
If you missed out on tickets there’ll be another chance to see it when it transfers to the West End in February next year with TV star Tom Hollander reprising his role as Henry Carr, a minor British diplomat in Zurich in 1917 who encounters a surreal mob of fictional and real life characters.
By Phil Willmott Friday, November 4 2016, 14:57
The full casting has been announced for BAT OUT OF HELL heading to the London Coliseum next June and I'm very excited about the line up.
The casting is daring and imaginative and it’s going to introduce a lot of people to some hot new talent.
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, November 2 2016, 07:21
It's always difficult to review plays by Conor McPherson because it's a shame to give too much away.
On the whole they're slow burn slices of naturalism in which usually socially dysfunctional people, or at least those at the bottom of the heap, let slip seemingly innocuous information which builds into something more sinister.
By Thomas Michael Voss Monday, October 31 2016, 08:21
Dance Company Modern Table, led by choreographer Kim Jae-Duk, closed this year’s London Festival of Korean Music with a sublime piece of art; a concoction of music, contemporary dance and song interwoven as smoothly as silk that led us on a journey deep into our soul, exploring the old and new and reassessing the past as reflected by the the future.
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 31 2016, 08:15
Some acclaimed plays don’t stand the test of time but whenever I see a production of Peter Shaffer’s play AMADEUS it becomes harder and harder to dispute its masterpiece status.
The story begins with the old, crazy, suicidal and largely forgotten composer Salieri crying out to confess the murder of his one time rival, Mozart.
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