Saturday, August 8, 2015
Off-beat. Dissonant. Silences in staccato. The Ghost Sonata at the Rose Playhouse, Bankside is a production that certainly captures the aura of odd, disquieting mystery that pervades the 190…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:34PMThursday, July 30, 2015
In her last world tour as a dancer, Sylvie Guillem celebrates the end of 39 years of dancing in Life in Progress, a performance that concludes her professional stage credits that range from …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:49AMThursday, June 25, 2015
It is rare that a piece of theatre convinces you to love it in the first 10 seconds. Maybe I am guilty of impulsive decisions, but the Royal Court Theatre’s production of Constellations at…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:22PMFriday, May 8, 2015
Centre stage and bathed in a faint blue glow are the two rows of car seats that make up the interior of a Bluebird Nissan, the taxi owned by Jimmy MacNeil (played by Malcolm Freeman). Surrou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:57PMSaturday, April 11, 2015
At a running time of just 90 minutes, director Benjamin Blyth’s production of Shakespeare’s King Lear does an impressive job of staging a play that usually runs for about three hours. Wi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:45AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
The Union Theatre’s production of Whistle Down the Wind is surely one of the more unique and atmospheric performances of this musical. Adapted by Russell Labey and Richard Taylor, and base…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20PMThursday, January 22, 2015
The Lounge, nestled beneath the foyer of the Leicester Square Theatre, is a remarkably appropriate place to stage a production of The Waiting Room. Thanks to the dimly lit interior and the r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMMonday, September 29, 2014
Letters? Hand-written notes? Even a thank you card? It’s not hard to see that a good old handwritten letter is a rare occurrence these days. As I take my seat in the Soho Theatre I tr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:57PMFriday, September 19, 2014
“Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd” is an opening line that has been heard a lot recently, especially in the wake of the 2012 West End revival of Sondheim’s celebrated musical. Now, with…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:30PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
Before embarking on a national tour, The Globe brings a reworking of its 2013 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the Rose Theatre for just three days. In this lively, entertaining…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:21PMThursday, August 7, 2014
Written by the award-winning Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Edges is a coming-of-age musical that deals with the classic questions life as a young adult poses, and the struggles of four young f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:06PMFriday, April 25, 2014
Translations, written in 1980 by Brian Friel, is a play that fuses the power of language and communication against a backdrop of 1833 rural Ireland. Under James Grieve’s direction of the m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:05PMSunday, February 9, 2014
We live in a world so dependent on electricity that we’ve all found ourselves, at some point or other, wondering what would happen if it all just… stopped. Beth (Emma Pallant) and Fr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:18PMThursday, December 12, 2013
When Christmas lights and cold weather descend on Richmond Theatre it can mean only one thing: pantomime time. This year it’s the well-loved Peter Pan, reimagined in the swashbuckling glor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45AMSunday, November 10, 2013
An ethereal blue light greets you as you walk into the Ovalhouse theatre. In the pool of darkness, a single table and two chairs are illuminated. It’s almost cinematic. The atmosphere is d…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:48PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Eight new plays by eight different writers, The Tell 8 is a collection of plays ranging from a therapy session in a dystopian society to an exploration of language during the 2011 referendum…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:12PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
The outcasts, the forgotten, the unsung… aren’t we always drawn to root for the underdog? Divas Unsung for one-night-only is the grand rekindling of long lost musical theatre gems sung …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:19PM 
