Stay Awake, Jake – Cast Recording is available on Spotify Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stay Awake, Jake is Tim Gilvin’s one-hander road musical that, with Norman Bowman in the lead role, won the 2014 S&S Award for Best Unproduced Musical. It has since gone on to be staged with much acclaim, first […]
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S&S Theatre Productions set to bring radical new musical theatre to the Off-West End & Off-Broadway stage
The S&S Award is turning producer to become S&S Theatre Productions, dedicated to producing radical new musical theatre with partnerships between the UK and the USA. Joining forces with London-based, multiple Offie-nominated Mercurius Theatre and Kent Nicholson, doyen of new musical theatre writing in the States, the new company has already hit the ground running […]
Bursts of brilliance from the year theatre stopped
We could have been born with a love of television or comic books or 1930s radio plays. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad. But no, Dionysus, god of theatre, took one look at us and decreed: “On top of the worldwide suffering and loss from Coronavirus, you are to spend the 2020 pandemic almost […]
Five Questions With: Ahmed Hamad
Actor AHMED HAMAD takes centre stage in the new production of Tim Gilvin’s Stay Awake, Jake which continues to be streamed via Southwark Playhouse until 28 February 2021. Ahmed (Rent, Hope Mill Theatre, The Boy In The Dress, Royal Shakespeare Company) followed up his recent recording of the show’s album (being released soon!) by taking […]
Southwark Playhouse announces encore screenings of new musicals Fiver, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake
The critically-acclaimed live-stream productions of new British musicals FIVER, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake have been made available for an extra two weeks in response to high public demand. First seen as part of a mini-season of musical livestreams from The Little Theatre space at Southwark Playhouse late last year, the encore streaming of […]
Ahmed Hamad will play the title role in live-streamed Stay Awake, Jake
Ahmed Hamad will take centre stage in a new production of Tim Gilvin’s Stay Awake, Jake which will be live-streamed from the Southwark Playhouse this month. Hamad (Rent, Hope Mill Theatre, The Boy In The Dress, Royal Shakespeare Company) will follow up his recent recording of the show’s album, by taking on the title role […]
Three new musicals to be livestreamed from Southwark Playhouse
In December The Little theatre space at Southwark Playhouse will stop becoming a bar and host a mini-season of three musical live streams: The Fabulist Fox Sister on 4 and 5 December 2020, Public Domain on 11 and 12 December and Stay Awake, Jake on 18 and 19 December. All tickets for the livestreams are […]
Southwark Playhouse run for Hope Mill’s Aspects of Love plus new musicals Stay Awake, Jake & Benjamin Button feature in 2019 season
Hope Mill Theatre’s hit version of Aspects of Love, and the world premiere of a musical based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, will be among the Southwark Playhouse’s final productions to play the Playhouse’s current London site. Due to take up residence in two purpose-built new theatre spaces in late […]
Exclusive – The S&S Award for new writing – exciting changes ahead
Following four years with Mercury Musical Developments, the prestigious S&S Award (celebrating new musical theatre) is branching out. After various proposals from independent producers, the prize is incorporating several changes from 2016 onwards. The S&S Award will: – be produced independently and entrants will not need to be members of any particular organisation. Watch out for a […]
Stay Awake, Jake – Vault Festival
Stay Awake, Jake continues at the Vault Festival, London until 7 February. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Composer/lyricist Tim Gilvin has developed and honed his one-act, one-man musical into a captivating journey that, with the help of a top-class performer (and some uncomfortable seating) keeps you on the edge of your seat. Stay Awake, […]
Vault Festival – S&S Award winner Stay Awake, Jake features in line-up
An eclectic mix of music, comedy and drama has been lined up for this year’s Vault Festival at the distinctive subterranean arts venue in London’s Waterloo. The festival programme which runs from 27 January until 6 March includes the 2014 S&S Award-winning, one-man musical Stay Awake, Jake by Tim Gilvin. Featuring Jamie Muscato (Dogfight, Bend it […]
