Tag Archives: Ray Rackham

Conductor: Freddie Tapner Reviewer: Scott Matthewman Earlier this year, Overtures Piano Bar opened regularly following a 2018 pop-up version, named after the famed New York bar Marie’s Crisis, was so successful. The format is simple: a pianist with a large musical theatre repertoire plays show tunes and the audience sings along. Since opening, the Marble Arch venue has gained popularity ...

Writer: Don Cotter Director: Ray Rackham Reviewer: Stephen Bates Mods on their Italian scooters are congregating on Brighton seafront, near to the house shared by gay couple Freddie and Ted. It is August 1966 and Radio Caroline can be heard on their portable wireless, but then Freddie switches channels to the BBC Home Service, which is broadcasting The Ruffian on ...

Writer and director: Steve Brown Reviewer: Stephen Bates   Hollywood studios are usually keen to point out that no animals are harmed during the shooting of their films, but harming children could be another matter. Steve Brown's searing drama is a reminder that, for every Jodie Foster or Christian Bale who makes the transition from child to adult stardom, there is a...well, no ...

A new Ticket lottery, aimed solely at 18-25 year olds, is launched today [9 June 2016]. The Through the Mill Ticket Lottery will enable young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 a chance to win two top price seats for each performance of Through the Mill,Ray Rackham’s play charting the life and career of actress and singer Judy ...

Book and Lyrics: Ray Rackham Music: Tom Lees Director: Ray Rackham Reviewer: Scott Matthewman Although set in New York City, new musical Apartment 40C is a wholly British production. Created by Ray Rackham and Tom Lees, joint artistic directors of Fulham’s London Theatre Workshop, the musical was first work-shopped and produced at LTW in 2014, and is now enjoying a ...

Writer: Harvey Fierstein Music and Lyrics: John Bucchino Director: Ray Rackham Reviewer: Stephen Bates Given its wafer-thin storyline, it comes as a surprise to find that Harvey Fierstein’s book for this musical is based upon a film and television play for which writing credits went to heavyweights Gore Vidal and Paddy Chayefsky. A young couple announce that they plan a ...

Director: Ray Rackham Reviewer:Andy Moseley If songs from a band’s entire career can be crafted into musicals it makes sense that the opposite should apply, and songs from musicals can be crafted into something resembling an album. This is one way of looking at London Theatre Workshop’s celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s Love Songs. The risks are that the finished product ...

Music &Lyrics: Adam Gwon Director: Ray Rackham Reviewer: Christopher Hong The opening production of the first season programme for the newly established London Theatre Workshop in Fulhambrings the chamber musical Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon. As the title suggests, it is set on a day when four people’s lives change due to some chance occurrence. The set scattered with New ...