Bill Murray’s creation of Phil Connors, an egotistical and contemptuous TV weatherman who finds himself trapped in a time-loop whilst conducting an outside broadcast in Punxsutawney, a Pennsylvania backwater, achieved instant cult status when the original film of “Groundhog Day” was released in 1993. The backwater and its unsophisticated inhabitants, whose singular notoriety stems from the antics of a ground-dwelling rodent, (which legend tells can predict the weather depending on whether it spies its own shadow on February 2nd), is the focus of short-lived annual interest, but viewed with undisguised derision by our anti-hero.
West End Theatre News and Reviews
19 Sep
Reviews 
Review: GROUNDHOG DAY at The Old Vic
By Stuart King Monday, September 19 2016, 14:12
19 Sep
Reviews
Review: THE ENTERTAINER at Garrick Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, September 19 2016, 14:04
Kenneth Branagh ends his season of plays at The Garrick with John Osborne’s 1957 commentary on post-war Britain’s parlous and weakened state, highlighted by the military and diplomatic inadequacies revealed in the government’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis, presaging the collapse of the British Empire.
16 Sep
Reviews 
Review: BRIEFS at London Wonderground
By Stacey Tyler Friday, September 16 2016, 17:13
Back in London for its 4th season BRIEFS is a not for the faint hearted. In the words of our brilliantly bonkers host, this show ‘celebrates the freak’; and what a celebration it is.
As we enter The Spiegeltent in Wonderland at The Southbank, Ru Pauls ‘Sissy that walk’ is blasting through the speakers and we are transported into the wonderful world of cabaret. With the scantily clad waiters, dim lighting and revellers ready for a good time, everyone is waiting on tenterhooks for the show to begin. As the lights snap off, a single spot follows our host, Shivannah, work his way through the already adoring crowd.
16 Sep
Reviews
Review: THE ALCHEMIST at RSC Barbican
By Stuart King Friday, September 16 2016, 16:10
A resourceful manservant is left in charge of his master’s London home during an outbreak of plague and during his absence, falls-in with a pair of confidence tricksters. The resultant bargain struck between the three, provides the basis for Ben Johnson’s seminal 1610 work The Alchemist which is currently being presented in the main house of the Barbican, by the RSC.
12 Sep
News 
DEAD FUNNY returns to the West End with a top TV comedy cast
By Phil Willmott Monday, September 12 2016, 08:54
When we hear the phrase “classic comedy” in relation to theatre it usually conjures up the work of authors writing a century or more ago. An exception to the rule is Terry Johnson, still very much alive, whose productions as a director or playwright have won him nine British Theatre awards including the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 1994 and 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play 1995 and two Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
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