Review: YOURS UNFAITHFULLY, Jermyn Street Theatre
Written almost a century ago and premiering in London for the first time, Yours Unfaithfully has the acquired taste of a fine vintage wine. The piece is typically English with typically un-English values.
Photos: First Look at THE LITTLE PRINCE at Taunton Brewhouse
Get a first look at award-winning theatre company Metta Theatre and the team at Taunton Brewhouse's brand-new circus musical extravaganza The Little Prince, playing at the Somerset venue from 6 - 30 December, with a press night on 7 December, and a Ukrainian captioned performance on 28 December.
WATCH: THE MINOTAUR Releases 'Singing Our Song' Music Video - Cast EP Out Now
Metta Theatre released a cast EP and music video for The Minotaur. Get a first listen and look here! P Burton-Morgan and Felix Hagan reunite on a musical based on the Greek myth of The Minotaur - as a metaphor for fossil-fuel induced climate collapse and the inspiring power of community coming together to rise above denial, greed and devastation.
VIDEO: Metta Theatre Releases Season Two of Musical Drama CELLS
Metta Theatre – one of the UK's leading production companies devoted to British musical theatre – are pleased to announce the release of second season of filmed musical drama CELLS today, Monday 21 March, a year after the first season was released in 2021, in partnership with Royal & Derngate Northampton, The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and the Taunton Brewhouse.
Metta Theatre Announces Updates to 2022 Lineup
The release of second season of filmed musical drama CELLS on 21 March, a year after the first season was released in 2021, in partnership with Royal & Derngate Northampton, The Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and the Taunton Brewhouse, and a Christmas season of THE LITTLE PRINCE, opening at the Taunton Brewhouse this Christmas.
BWW Review: THE TEMPEST, Jermyn Street Theatre
Oh, how life changes in 20 months. Not quite two years, not quite one and a half. In March 2020, artistic director of Jermyn Street Theatre Tom Littler teamed up with Michael Pennington to deliver Shakespeare’s swansong. That production played for six performances before closing down due to the “unprecedented times” we’re still dealing with. It was this critic’s last show before theatres closed down and everything changed.
CELLS To Be Released Episodically From Metta Theatre
Metta Theatre – one of the UK's leading production companies devoted to British musical theatre – is pleased to announce the release of a film of a brand-new musical, CELLS, written, developed and recorded entirely during lockdown by the award-winning writer/director P Burton-Morgan and composer Ben Glasstone.
Guest Blog: P Burton-Morgan Talks IN THE WILLOWS and New Musicals Amidst Tricky Times
Earlier this month, writer and director P Burton-Morgan's Metta Theatre, in conjunction with Perfect Pitch, released the studio cast EP of their hip hop musical In the Willows, adapted from Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in the Willows. Long devoted to new British musical theatre, Burton-Morgan explains more about keeping busy during the pandemic with this project, and others, in a guest blog.
Metta Theatre Announces Facebook Live Series METTA GREEN TEA
Metta Theatre – one of the UK's leading production companies devoted to British musical theatre – has announced an intensification of the company's focus on climate crisis and sustainability issues, with the launch of environmental consultancy Metta Green, at the same time as the release of the album for their brand-new climate crisis musical HouseFire.