The highly-celebrated annual festival of new musical theatre, MTFestUK 2021, will run from 17-29 May 2021 at London’s Turbine Theatre before embarking on a ‘digital’ tour from 31 May-4 July. The full list of venues and touring dates are as follows: The Turbine Theatre, Battersea (17-29 May) Norwich Theatre Royal, the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and […]
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Full album release for new British musical The Rhythmics
Leading independent theatre production companies Metta Theatre and Aria Entertainment have released the album for new feel-good musical The Rhythmics. Following on from the last month’s release of the single ‘Waiting To Begin’, the full, partially-Crowdfunded cast album is now available via Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Apple Music and other digital platforms. Recorded in lockdown […]
Metta and Aria to produce new British musical The Rhythmics
Leading independent theatre production companies Metta Theatre and Aria Entertainment are joining forces to produce new feel-good musical The Rhythmics. With a book and lyrics by Metta’s artistic director Poppy Burton-Morgan and music and lyrics by Stiles & Drewe prize-winner Ben Glasstone (Reanimator), The Rhythmics is one of three new British musicals already benefiting from […]
Arts Council aid for Metta Theatre’s new digital works
Metta Theatre has been granted emergency funds by Arts Council England to enable the award-winning company to continue developing three out of six of the new British musicals it announced in January this year. Originally scheduled to be showcased across the UK in the first half of 2020, the funding will be used exclusively to […]
Casts announced for MTFestUK at the Turbine Theatre
A number of West End stars have been lined up to appear in each of the new musicals chosen to feature in the programme for Paul Taylor-Mills’ MTFestUK at the Turbine Theatre next month. Running from 3-15 February 2020 at the newly opened venue on the banks of the Thames in Battersea, the second MTFestUK […]
Seann Miley Moore joins Clive Rowe in hip hop In the Willows
The X Factor’s Seann Miley Moore will join Olivier Award winner Clive Rowe, deaf street dancer Chris Fonseca and Let It Shine singer Matt Knight in a new hip hop musical re-working of the classic The Wind in the Willows from the award-winning Metta Theatre. Written and directed by Metta’s artistic director Poppy Burton-Morgan (Jungle […]
Clive Rowe to star in hip-hop In The Willows
Olivier Award winner Clive Rowe will star as Badger in a new hip-hop musical re-working of the classic The Wind in the Willows from the award-winning Metta Theatre. Written and directed by Metta’s artistic director Poppy Burton-Morgan (Jungle Book, UK and International tour), with music from award-winning composer Pippa Cleary (The Secret Diary of Adrian […]
