By Andrew Bewley Wednesday, October 12 2016, 16:23
Bringing Lillian Hellmann’s favourite play, The Autumn Garden, to the London stage for the first time, Anthony Bigg's production is a delight.
Wonderfully subtle in its observation of Love and all its pitfalls (regret being the main focus) and beautifully slow paced.
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, October 12 2016, 15:54
I really enjoyed the current revival of THE DRESSER last night, Ronald Harwood’s melancholy comic tragedy about a back stage wardrobe assistant coaxing and bullying an ageing actor through a production of King Lear during a WW2 bombing raid. Through this situation Harwood explores the futility we all feel from time to time using theatre life as a metaphor for existence.
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 10 2016, 15:01
The actor Rufus Sewell has been very busy recently and you can currently enjoy two superb pieces of TV acting by him. He is impossibly handsome and utterly terrifying in the Amazon Prime hit, THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, as a Nazi Officer and impossibly handsome and adorably kind in ITV’s VICTORIA in which he plays Queen Victoria’s first love, Lord Marlborough.
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 10 2016, 11:06
Sad news that after nine years the West End must say goodbye to the popular musical, JERSEY BOYS.
I was first aware of it in NYC and when it opened and it was impossible to get a ticket. In New York the title has a powerful resonance as everyone is aware of their near neighbour, New Jersey, the setting for much of the story. When it opened in the West End I thought the title might mystify people as when we think of Jersey we think of the pleasant isle just off our coast that’s a favourite, if genteel, holiday destination!
By Stacey Tyler Wednesday, October 5 2016, 15:36
The idea of using a murder ballad as the basis of a musical is an unusual concept and I was interested in how this was going to to work on stage within the musical theatre format. My preconception was that although murder ballads make great 4-minute songs, how is this going to work as a 90 minute musical? I need not have worried, we are clearly told at the beginning that the story will simply follow the format of these obsessive songs, and ‘in all great murder ballads, when songs of love-gone-wrong are sung, blood must be spilled, but by who?’ So as the love story begins, I know how it must end.
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