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Sunday, June 20, 2021

Civic life is under assault – theatres can play a vital role in restoring it | Dan Hutton by Dan Hutton

Drama instigates debate and changes lives. With venues open again, this is a chance to build a truly civic theatre culture Theatre may not seem like a natural place to go in order to underst…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM
Monday, August 7, 2017

Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here by Dan Hutton

A performative preview: the members of Barrel Organ explore debt, friendship and grief ahead of their Edinburgh Fringe show. The post Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here appeared first on E…

SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:15AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Art First, Profit Second by Dan Hutton

(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Survive | Thrive} blog salon, curated by Caridad Svich.)  Financial models supporting the creation and diss…

SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:50PM
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Feature: The HopeFull Rep season – “taking the bull by the horns” by Dan Hutton

Repertory theatre is back in fashion. With the Secret Theatre ensemble working through a number of shows at the Lyric and the Royal Court producing its own six-play season last year, it seem…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:30AM
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Edinburgh feature: Ellie Stamp – “there’s nothing wrong with you – it’s because you’re human” by Dan Hutton

“You’re a very good leader and you’re very good at listening to others”. Ellie Stamp has just met me, but she tells me this ‘fact’ based purely on the numbers of my birthday. It …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42AM
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Feature: Edinburgh preview – The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Dan Hutton

Phrases which Little Soldier uses to describe its work emphasises a crossover between humour and drama: “Life imitates art in the most tragic way” (Pakita); “Funny yet touching” (Yo…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:31AM
Monday, July 28, 2014

Feature: Mark Ravenhill and Secret Theatre by Dan Hutton

“They can be quite unnerving,” Mark Ravenhill says of the Secret Theatre company, suggesting that their 12 months of working together has given way to a kind of openness he hasn’t com…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:45AM
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Latitude review: Void Story, Forced Entertainment by Dan Hutton

Five years on from its première, Void Story is still during the rounds and continues to delight audiences. It’s a strange but beautiful mix of live graphic novel, post-apocalyptic nov…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20AM

Latitude review: Frisky and Mannish, Just Too Much by Dan Hutton

In the past, the shows of pop deconstructionists Frisky and Mannish have mixed styles and genres in order to demonstrate the basic history and rules of popular music, and have even considere…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09AM

Latitude review: Light, Theatre Ad Infinitum by Dan Hutton

Theatre Ad Infinitum is a company which constantly reinvents itself; two years ago, Translunar Paradise told a heartbreaking story of two people in love using masks and music, whilst 2013&#…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:07AM

Latitude Review: Sixth Sense, Luke Jermay by Dan Hutton

Magic cards on the table: I 100% do not believe in psychics or fortune-tellers. Being a rationalist, I refuse to believe that the human mind has any ability whatsoever to reach out to anoth…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:59AM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Feature: Latitude preview – the RSC by Dan Hutton

Were you to make a list of acts who may play music festivals, the Royal Shakespeare Company would not necessarily be a name which featured highly. You’d probably be right in thinking that,…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:02AM
Friday, May 2, 2014

Feature: Revisiting ‘Grounded’ – blending the personal and the political by Dan Hutton

To say Grounded took last year’s Edinburgh Fringe by storm may be a bit of an understatement. For about a week, George Brant’s play about an American pilot who finds herself sat behind a…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:41AM
Monday, March 31, 2014

Feature: Theatre at the Science Museum – Very loud bangs? Check. by Dan Hutton

It’s not often you get handed a pair of ear defenders when walking into a rehearsal room; they are ordinarily ‘safe’ spaces with an air of creative calm, cultivated in order to provide…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:11AM
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Book review: The Complete Brecht Toolkit by Stephen Unwin by Dan Hutton

Although it’s a cliche, there’s a lot of truth to the old adage that, as Stephen Unwin says in his new book, “Brecht is often sloppily taught”. Many teachers of his plays and theorie…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:19AM
Friday, February 14, 2014

Feature: Spotlight on Tidy Carnage – “Do we count as the exotic?” by Dan Hutton

Considering the snobbery with which many people and media outlets in England discuss the concept of Scottish independence, it’s unsurprising that many of our neighbours in the north are lo…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48AM
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Feature: Spotlight on Jeremy Kingston by Dan Hutton

Many interviews begin with a bit of history and finish by looking forward to the future. When chatting to critic Jeremy Kingston, however, we decided to start by looking ahead and work our w…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:48AM
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Book review: Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism and Love by Dan Hutton

The subtitle of Nicholas Ridout’s Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism and Love, and its central argument – “that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:18AM
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Feature: Kieran Hurley – “we are trying to push at the limits of what we can do in a theatre” by Dan Hutton

About halfway through our conversation, Kieran Hurley tells me a brilliant and quietly moving anecdote about The Bloody Great Border Ballad, a show which Northern Stages ran nightly at its E…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:44AM
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Book Review: Theatre-making by Duska Radosavljević by Dan Hutton

The title of Duska Radosavljević’s Theatre-making would, you’d expect, refer to professionals who actively do the making, creating works of art for others to experience. And it …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:53AM
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Donal O’Kelly’s Brace – Skeffy by Dan Hutton

(2/5) I now properly “get” that word-of-mouth is the most important tool for selling a show in Edinburgh. Though Donal O’Kelly’s Brace – Skeffy was awarded a Fringe First last …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:28PM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Oh My Irma by Dan Hutton

(3/5) Young women committing acts of violence on small animals seems to have become a bit of a running motif throughout this year’s festival. After the grotesque ending of Phoebe Waller-Br…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57PM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Repertory Theatre by Dan Hutton

(3/5) CONTAINS SPOILERS. After a successful run at last year’s festival, Elephant and the Mouse has returned with Repertory Theatre, its bizarre, absurdist Hamlet-inspired two-man farce. I…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:41PM
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Bread and the Beer by Dan Hutton

(4/5) I haven’t seen anything on the publicity for Tristan Bernays’s The Bread and the Beer that suggests this is a piece attempting to understand English identity, but in the context o…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:41AM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: London Road, Sea Point by Dan Hutton

(3/5) London Road is a street in the now-affluent Cape Town suburb of Sea Point. But it wasn’t always that way. It was once seen as a dangerous area due to absent landlords and a high …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27AM
Monday, August 12, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Tales of Magical Realism by Dan Hutton

(3/5) There are only really four long lasting visual images in Sven Werner’s Tales of Magical Realism, all with kinetic parts: a train compartment with trees rushing past the window; a rai…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:54PM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: League of St George by Dan Hutton

(3/5) There is no shortage of ‘nation’ plays at this year’s Fringe. Most that I’m aware of, however, discuss the notion of an independent Scotland and its identity, sidestepping the …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:47PM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Thunderbards by Dan Hutton

(3/5) We tell stories to keep ourselves going. To make us laugh, to make us cry, and to remind us that we’re human. Storytelling forms the crux of Thunderbards, a two-man comedy sketch sho…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PM
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Family Tree by Dan Hutton

(3/5) Bella Loudon’s Family Tree is at its best when it is undergoing an experiment in form, exploring the representation of different versions of reality on stage as ghosts of the mind ha…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:12PM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Breaking News by Dan Hutton

(3/5) We live in a world, so they say, far too full of information. As we all try to come to terms with the biggest shift in knowledge dissemination since the invention of the printing press…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:34PM

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Miles and Coltrane Blue (.) by Dan Hutton

(3/5) Miles Davis and John Coltrane are names which tower above others. At the height of their powers, these two men shifted the musical landscape on an almost weekly basis, constantly tryin…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:43AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards