Hot Lips and Cold War continues at the London Theatre Workshop until 24 February 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Hot Lips and Cold War is a new musical play by Lizzie Freeborn, performed at London Theatre Workshop’s new home in the heart of the City of London. The show has […]
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Ordinary Days – London Theatre Workshop
Ordinary Days continues at London Theatre Workshop until 17 June. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Streetlights, People! Productions brings Adam Gwon’s musical Ordinary Days to London Theatre Workshop. One of the Streetlights, People! goals is to create work that is ‘entertaining, relatable and thought provoking’, and in a time in which […]
Through the Mill at Southwark Playhouse – full casting details
The full cast has been announced for the Southwark Playhouse transfer of Through the Mill, Ray Rackham’s play about the tempestuous life of the legendary Judy Garland. The show, which was given its world premiere at the London Theatre Workshop in December last year, will play the Southwark Playhouse from 6 to 30 July. […]
Through the Mill transfers to Southwark Playhouse
Through the Mill, Ray Rackham’s play about the tempestuous life of the legendary Judy Garland, is to transfer to the Southwark Playhouse this summer. The show, which was given its world premiere at the London Theatre Workshop in December last year, will play the Southwark Playhouse from 6 to 30 July. Written by Rackham, the […]
New theatre company Jord&Co Productions launched
Royal Academy of Music graduate Jordan Li-Smith has launched a theatre company aimed at producing both new and rarely seen material on the London stage. With Li-Smith serving as artistic director, Jord&Co Productions is also promising to offer aspiring performers the chance to develop their theatre skills through an extensive workshop programme. The Wrexham-born musical […]
London Fringe – new musicals which made their mark in 2015
Paul Vale believes the London Fringe’s commitment to new musical theatre has reaped dividends in 2015. As 2015 draws to a close, it’s worth contemplating some of the new musicals which have made their mark on the Fringe over the year. Truth be told it’s been a bumper year, with projects that have occasionally proved […]
Through the Mill – London Theatre Workshop
Through the Mill continues at London Theatre Workshop, Fulham until 19 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Three different actresses play showbiz legend Judy Garland at three stages of her turbulent, drink-and-drug-fuelled, suicide-inclined career in Ray Rackham’s new play which has its world premiere this month at the bijou pub theatre he […]
Three Judy Garland roles cast in new play at the London Theatre Workshop
Helen Sheals, Belinda Wollaston and Lucy Penrose have been cast to play Judy Garland in three different stages of her life in Through the Mill, a new play featuring a hit list of Garland greatest standards, by Ray Rackham. Through the Mill will get its world premiere in a three-week season at London Theatre Workshop […]
Edges – London Theatre Workshop,
Edges continues at London Theatre Workshop, Fulham until 1 October, followed by one performance at St Paul’s Actors’ Church, London on 3 October. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have come a fair way since this slight, early effort, written a decade ago when they were undergraduates at the University […]
Parade – London Theatre Workshop
Parade continues at the London Theatre Workshop until 13 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Some of the most exciting theatre takes place on the London Fringe – and certainly the best value – so why even think of paying vast sums for some of the tat that gets into the West End when you can feast on […]
Pasek and Paul’s Edges at London Theatre Workshop is produced by Collabro’s Michael Auger
Michael Auger (one fifth of Collabro, Britain’s Got Talent winners 2014) has set up a brand new production company, Peak Productions, with the sole aim to spread the word of musical theatre and to give back to the industry which led to him, as part of Collabro, to become an international artist. Peak Productions believes in encouraging performers […]
New staging of Parade at London Theatre Workshop in September
For a strictly limited two-week run (1–13 September), a new revival of Jason Robert Brown’s Parade will play the intimate London Theatre Workshop with a cast of 13 actors in multiple roles. This ambitious new production stars Ross Barnes (Carousel, Opera North; Little Shop of Horrors, White Bear/Landor) as Leo Frank and Lily De-La-Haye as Lucille Frank. Daniel […]
Vote For Me: A Musical Debate – London Theatre Workshop
Vote For Me: A Musical Debate at London Theatre Workshop, Fulham, London continues until 23 May. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Having just marked crosses for the least uninspiring candidates in the general and local council elections, casting a vote for the third time in the day, even a make-believe one, turned out to be more a labour of […]
Apartment 40c – St James Studio
Apartment 40c continues at St James Studio, London until 12 April. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This Manhattan-set musical, written by two Brits, the co-artistic directors of London Theatre Workshop, Ray Rackham and Tom Lees, had decent reviews when it premiered at their Fulham HQ before Christmas but this is a bigger, better version. Expanded […]
UK premiere of Vote For Me: A Musical Debate at London Theatre Workshop – casting revealed
The London Theatre Workshop has announced the cast for the upcoming UK premiere of the musical comedy Vote For Me: A Musical Debate which runs at the venue in Fulham, west London this May, direct from a sell-out Off-Broadway run. Vote For Me is a musicalised Presidential debate where you pick the winner. Candidates dance and sing […]
New musical Yarico – Liberty Buckland and Alex Spinney head cast
Final casting and the full creative team have been revealed today for the world premiere of Yarico, an epic musical about forbidden love, betrayal and redemption, based on a true story that fired the world’s imagination and contributed to the social movement against the slave trade. Yarico, with book and lyrics by Carl Miller, music by James […]
Apartment 40C – London Theatre Workshop
Apartment 40C continues at the London Theatre Workshop, Fulham until 20 December. Anyone who recalls the sublime 1960 black and white Billy Wilder film The Apartment, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, doesn’t need reminding of how much drama, comedy and human emotion can be wrung out within just four walls. The compact and bijou […]
Jodie Kidd brings new musical Yarico to London Theatre Workshop
Bringing the story of Yarico, a powerful musical about forbidden love, betrayal and redemption, to the stage has been a ten-year labour of love for producers John Kidd and his daughter Jodie, the model and UK TV presenter. Yarico will get its world premiere at the new bijou theatre, London Theatre Workshop, in February 2015. The musical, based on a true story, […]
A Catered Affair – London Theatre Workshop
A Catered Affair continues at London Theatre Workshop, Fulham, until 20 June. Almost a year to the day since the Royal Academy of Music graduates introduced many of us to A Catered Affair comes the professional UK premiere of this thought-provoking piece at the go-ahead London Theatre Workshop. More a play with music than a musical, […]
Just Another Love Story – London Theatre Workshop
Just Another Love Story continues at the London Theatre Workshop, London, until 24 May. We have had a rash of Stephen Sondheim compilations, concerts and revues in London recently, one or two of which it is just as well the great man did not see. But he would be well pleased with an evening celebrating […]
Ordinary Days – London Theatre Workshop
Ordinary Days at the London Theatre Workshop, London, continues until 29 March. London Theatre Workshop, a new-kid-on-the-block 65-seater boutique theatre in the bowels of Fulham, launches with a chamber musical about New York life and the ‘ordinary days’ of four of its young inhabitants trying to find their way in that concrete jungle. Artistic director […]
