Following the cancellation of this year’s VAULT Festival, Jude Taylor’s Is He Musical? will receive its world premiere as both live stage and live stream performances as part of LGBTQ+ History Month. Inspired by the true stories of queer friends who lived, loved and partied across 1930s London, the musical comedy will premiere as a […]
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Gus Gowland’s Subway available to stream on major music platforms
Subway, the new musical short from the award-winning creator of the musical Pieces of String, Gus Gowland, is now streaming across all major music platforms. Starring award-winning actors Nicholas McLean (Best Supporting Actor at The Black British Theatre Awards 2020 for Wicked) and Jack Reitman (Best Actor at 2020 Off-West End Award for Thrill Me), […]
Public Domain – Southwark Playhouse
Public Domain was broadcast via live-stream from Southwark Playhouse, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Public Domain has had its first outing, live-streamed from Southwark Playhouse. Writers Francesca Forristal (book, lyrics) and Jordan Paul Clarke (music/lyrics/orchestrations) were hard at work a year ago on a show about searching for authentic forms of connection […]
Wilf Goes Wild team creates free educational content for schoolkids
The creators of child-friendly animated musical Wilf Goes Wild are releasing a series of free educational and interactive resources to help youngsters while schools are closed. Written by Sarah Middleton (SHEWOLVES, Pinocchio, Nottingham Playhouse) and Josh Sneesby (Grammy nominated for Amélie The Musical) and directed by Matt Powell (on hope: a digital song cycle), the […]
Gus Gowland new musical short available to watch
Subway, a new musical short from the award-winning creator of the musical Pieces of String, Gus Gowland is now available to download. Featuring award-winning actors Nicholas McLean (Best Supporting Actor at The Black British Theatre Awards 2020 for Wicked) and Jack Reitman (Best Actor at 2020 Off-West End Award for Thrill Me), the love story […]
Ordinary Days – Top Note Arts
Ordinary Days is streaming until 22 November 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A production of this show by Streetlights, People! Productions was shortlisted for Musical Theatre Review’s inaugural Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017 and I first saw it then. The show, with music and lyrics by Adam […]
New Brit show Make Me Infamous debuts as full cast radio theatre production
New British musical comedy Make Me Infamous has launched with a full cast radio theatre production. The latest from writer Jude Taylor, the comic-book tale of a young writer, scheming supervillains and bungling superheroes, produced remotely during lockdown will make its debut as a two-hour radio musical. The Radio Theatre Musical is directed by Ben […]
New topical musical Snowflake to launch with visual EP
Actor/writer Lewis Cornay will premiere his new musical Snowflake today (6 August 2020) with an innovative visual EP featuring songs from the show. Presented by MP Theatricals, the 15-minute video EP which was created by Cornay and producer/video director Matt Powell will launch the millennial-themed musical on the company’s YouTube channel at 6pm on 6 […]
Casting for MTPRIDE’s Queered announced
Casting has been announced for the launch event of MTPRIDE – the online music festival celebrating Pride past, present and future through performances of musical theatre stars from the LGBTQ+ community. Queered will feature West End performers Waylon Jacobs (Hamilton), Michael Mather (Soho Cinders), Evie Rose Lane (Footloose) and Roshani Abbey (Bring It On) along […]
West End stars add their voices to On Hope: A Digital Song Cycle
A host of musical theatre stars are among the cast of over 100 performers due to make a contribution to the inspirational on hope: a digital song cycle which will be live streamed in the coming weeks. Performers from hit shows including Bat Out of Hell, Les Misérables, Six and Wicked will make their contributions […]
International line-up of songwriters for On Hope song cycle being streamed to The Other Palace
Over 60 songwriters from across the world have answered the call to submit an original song to be part of an inspirational digital song cycle. Presented by MP Theatricals in collaboration with The Other Palace, on hope: a digital song cycle will be streamed live on The Other Palace’s YouTube channel broadcasting on 29 April […]
On Hope digital song cycle project launched
Songwriters are being invited to submit an original song to be part of a digital song cycle created to offer a creative outlet for musical theatre practitioners during these difficult times. Entitled On Hope, the project has been instigated by producer and director Matt Powell and writer, dramaturg and former executive director of Mercury Musical […]
