By Phil Willmott Friday, March 11 2016, 10:08
It’s interesting how London Theatre goes through trends. Last year everyone was doing Greek drama this year there’s a rash of venues staging classics with women in Shakespeare roles written for men.
Tamsin Greig will play Malvolio in the National Theatre's forthcoming production of TWELFTH NIGHT.
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 11 2016, 09:57
Great news from the Charing Cross Theatre where my friends, the director Thom Southerland and producer Danielle Tarento are to helm a new season of musical theatre.
They kick off with a re-staging of their highly acclaimed production of TITANIC, originally seen at the Southwark Playhouse in 2013, revived with great success in Canada and long tipped for a central London run.
By Phil Willmott Friday, March 4 2016, 13:14
If anyone tells you that the West End is dumbing down point them in the direction of the Wyndham’s Theatre which is about to play host to a revival of the National Theatre's production of PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS.
It’s not a musical, it’s a serious and entertaining new play and such is the appetite for quality drama in London’s theatreland that the run has had to be extended. It’s now booking until 18 June 2016.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, March 3 2016, 21:29
Who’d have thought that this season’s smash hit musical would be a show that’s nearly half a century old!
GUYS AND DOLLS which many people, including me, consider one of the greatest musicals ever written, has been constantly revived all over the world in major, community and school productions ever since its Broadway première in 1950.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, March 3 2016, 13:27
Satire and sketch comedy was a vital part of West End theatre in the 1960’s but we don’t see a great deal of it these days so I was surprised to hear that veteran director Max Stafford-Clark still regards it as “a pungent corrective to political pomposity and ambition.”
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