By Phil Willmott Friday, September 2 2016, 00:02
There are exciting rumours about the autumn season at Trafalgar studios with more details available soon. Here’s what we know so far!
The line up looks set to include BURIED CHILD, Sam Shepard’s gleefully gothic tale of dysfunctional rural American life.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, September 1 2016, 15:10
I'm very excited to here at the Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of the classic British musical HALF A SIXPENCE is transferring to the West End.
It was a big hit in the West End and on Broadway in the 1960s and there was a popular film starring Tommy Steele but it’s always been a financial disaster when it’s been revived since. Regional tours and a big revival at West Yorkshire playhouse just didn’t attract an audience.
By Davor Golub Thursday, September 1 2016, 14:11
How does one even attempt to review HAMILTON? In the United States the show has become a theatrical phenomenon unlike any I have experienced in my forty years of theatergoing. It has won 11 Tony Awards including Best Musical, the Pulitzer Prize, has hundreds of teens attending its weekly Ham4Ham concert outside the theatre’s stage door and can command thousands of dollars per ticket for a prime orchestra seat.
By Stacey Tyler Thursday, September 1 2016, 13:55
FOUND111 is a beautifully intimate pop up theatre in the centre of London’s West End and is the perfect venue for the London Premiere of Unfaithful, a relatively new play by Owen McCafferty, which was first commissioned at The Traverse Theatre in 2014.
By Phil Willmott Monday, August 29 2016, 13:50
There’s a scene just before the interval of this harrowing, sometimes hilarious always illuminating play about conflict in the Congo which sums us just how complex the situation looks from a liberal western perspective.
A girl has been raped at gun point by rebel soldiers who have also forced her father to take part. A not uncommon experience in a country whose rebel fighters regularly use rape as a weapon. She lies shivering under a blanket and a waster aid worker urges a hysterical western observer to control her emotions and to only speak in a whisper.
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