S&S Theatre Productions to bring radical new musical theatre to Off-West End & Off-Broadway stage

Dedicated to producing radical new musical theatre, the S&S Award is evolving into S&S Theatre Productions with a partnership between London-based Mercurius Theatre and doyen of new musical theatre writing in the States, Kent Nicholson.

When operating as an awarding body and recognising the best new unproduced musical of the year, founders Caroline Underwood and Warner Brown longed to encourage links between the UK musical writing scene and that of the US and one of the aims of the new company is to mount co-productions with Off-West End and Off-Broadway companies.  

Exciting developments are set to follow but even before the launch of the company, the team joined forces with Pearson Theatre Productions and Damien Tracey for the production of Stay Awake, Jake by Tim Gilvin, which livestreamed from Southwark Playhouse recently and previously won the 2014 S&S Award.

Warner Brown and Joshua Schmidt (the American composer of Adding Machin3 amongst others) plan to set a template for the transatlantic aims of S&S Theatre Productions by forming a UK/US collaboration to write the new company’s second show. This new, innovative musical will be co-produced with the UK’s Mercurius Theatre – whose artistic chief Jenny Eastop will direct – and the USA’s Kent Nicholson. 

The founders said: “Dates and a venue for the London leg of this will be announced just as soon as the world returns to some kind of normal. S&S Theatre Productions are all set to go.”

Underwood and Brown added that the company is also inviting approaches from potential investors.

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