Whatsonstage.com Sponsors MTM:UK Awards

Popular theatre website, Whatsonstage.com, has signed up as a sponsor for this year's MTM:UK Awards along with Korean organisation OD Musical.

Whatsonstage.com’s Terri Paddock, who will also be presenting at the MTM: UK Awards ceremony, said: “We’ve long been fans of the work that Musical Theatre Matters does year-round in fostering the careers of up-and-coming musical theatre practitioners. And we were especially keen to get more involved in their exciting activities at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. We are delighted to come on board as a sponsor.” 

Chris Grady, founding chair of Musical Theatre Matters, said: "I was delighted to have an impromptu meeting with Whatsonstage.com and find that we seemed to have a perfect fit. Whatsonstage.com wanted to draw even more of their customer base into participation of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and we at MTM:UK wanted to find the best way to champion our third year of the Musical Theatre awards, which are about uncovering the next generation of writers, producers, and theatre companies who may play in major theatres across the UK in years to come. What better then to have Whatsonstage.com as a sponsor of the 2009 Awards and for Terri Paddock to join our independent judging panel?”

In addition to the MTM: UK Awards, Whatsonstage.com has signed up to help promote a free cabaret series at the Musical Theatre @ George Square, running nightly at 10pm throughout the festival, and a late-night University Challenge-style musical theatre quiz, for which readers of Whatsonstage.com will be invited to help generate the questions that will get the student-contestants reaching for their buzzers.

For more information on this year's awards, please click here.