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Musical Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Course summary

This unique Masters will enhance your critical understanding of musical theatre as a popular entertainment genre.

  • This programme will help you to sharpen your practical skills as a creative artist. On a practical level, it will assist you in working as a freelance writer, composer or producer of musical theatre.
  • The MA focuses on the dramaturgy of the musical as a key factor in the future development of the genre.
  • Expert professionals are regularly employed as visiting tutors, to maintain direct links with the industry.
  • You follow one of the two pathways as either:
Producer Writer or composer
  • You undertake an analytic case study of a musical or production, a placement project and dissertation (producers), and a creative project involving either book and lyrics or music for a short original musical (writers and composers).

Modules

You will choose between one of two pathways on the programme – the Producers pathway, or Writers and Composers pathway. Producers Pathway On the Producers pathway, you'll study the following compulsory modules. Case study (Producers) Production workshop Genre Study You'll also take a 30 credit contextual option module from a list approved annually by the department. Writers and composers Pathway On the Writer and Composers pathway, you'll study the following compulsory modules. Case study (Writers and composers) Creative workshop Genre Study You'll also take a 30 credit contextual option module from a list approved annually by the department. *Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.

Entry requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level. We accept a wide range of international qualifications. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Unless otherwise stated the annual fee for part-time programmes is half the full-time fee quoted.

Sponsorship information

AHRC

Musical Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS