The Act 1 set for Nicholas Hytner’s stellar production of Don Carlo, now in its third revival at the Royal Opera House, looks a bit like a dollhouse designer’s rendering of a wintry fore…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AMPlenty of pretty sand swirls around the stage of the National Theatre in director-writer Yaël Farber’s new play Salomé. But that’s not enough to conceal the barebones skeleton of this …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMA confession: I find few immersive theatre experiences as unpleasant as those in which performers take notice of me: I don’t like being talked to or touched or sequestered in solitude or a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:12AMIf you haven’t been inside The Rose Playhouse, that other seventeenth century theatre on the South Bank, it’s well worth a visit. Unlike Shakespeare’s Globe, the Rose actually stands o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54PMMaybe it’s something in the water, but whichever side of the Atlantic you happen to be on, you can currently catch a new piece of theatre that dives behind the scenes of the legendary cosm…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36AMMusicals often go through many different reincarnations, even after they’ve made it big. Think of Candide or Cabaret or Merrily We Roll Along, shows that each received a full script overha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:54AMDave, a lonely actor cut from the original London production of Cats and now trapped in an endless monologue recounting that theatrical tragedy, would like to tell us about his unfunny upbri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:54PMResurrection scenes abound in the theatre of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the era we usually think of as Shakespearean. Think of Hermione’s statue coming to life in Th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:31PMOmnipresent in London this season, Ivo van Hove has emerged as one of contemporary western theatre’s most divisive figures. I found his recent Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre lazy and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PMShakespeare’s Twelfth Night is all over the place this year. The glorious production starring Tamsin Greig at the National Theatre closes in mid-May, only days before Emma Rice’s interpr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:31AMI can pinpoint the precise moment that the Rose Theatre’s new musical Junkyard comes to life. Halfway through the first act, idealistic teacher Rick (Calum Callaghan) has finally convinced…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31AMWhat do you do when you’re a ghost doomed to roam the moody corners of Duncan Sheik’s new musical Whisper House for all eternity? You can blow out candles and knock papers out of people�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMI had the fairly disorientating experience of seeing two performances back to back half an hour apart in the Leicester Square Theatre on Friday night: Shit-faced Shakespeare: Much Ado About …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:06AMOn the one hand, the pundits and prognosticators who decried the star casting of Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins in the English National Opera’s new production of Carousel were right: Boe …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AM“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink,” begins young Cassandra Mortmain in Dodie Smith’s much-beloved novel I Capture the Castle. Composer Steven Edis and librettist Teresa Howard,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:54PMAmong the knickknacks piled high in Mr. Pharaoh’s junkyard, there is a broken clock, frozen in time. And while this clock doesn’t stand out among the eclectic ingenuities surrounding it …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:36AM“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink,” begins young Cassandra Mortmain in Dodie Smith’s much-beloved novel I Capture the Castle. Composer Steven Edis and librettist Teresa Howard,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AMDirector Emily Louizou has found the perfect space for Tejas Verdes, Fermín Cabal’s 2004 collection of seven haunting monologues surrounding the disappearance, torture, and death of a you…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:54PM“You can stop rhyming right there,” the Greek god of wine and drama Dionysos commands his slave Xanthias mid-song in Stephen Sondheim’s musical adaptation of The Frogs, now making its …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:42PMThere’s a little something for everyone in the English National Opera’s revival of Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-winning production of Handel’s Partenope. If you’re in the mark…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:32PMThe ensemble of Althea Theatre’s One Last Thing (For Now) seems particularly good at listening. One character reads a letter aloud, or writes one, or sends a Skype message, and the rest of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42PMMusic has a mesmeric, perhaps demonic, power in Lizzie, the half-musical, half-rock concert at the Greenwich Theatre. Lizzie tells the story of 19th-century alleged axe murderer Lizzie Borde…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:32PMA nifty ornate clock presides over the stage at Princess Suffragette, the new historical play by Subika Anwar-Khan at London’s VAULT Festival. Instead of hours, the clock, which cast membe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12PMWhat takes place behind closed doors when two major historical figures meet? Motivating plays like Michael Frayn’s celebrated Copenhagen (the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg) a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:54PMWon’t someone please think of the men? Why one AYT critic took issue with the Telegraph’s Dominic Cavendish’s plea for women to steer clear of Shakespeare’s male roles. Like Dominic …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PMThe National Theatre’s promotional campaign for Simon Godwin’s new Twelfth Night has been all Tamsin Greig, all the time. The video trailer and the programme design devote themselves ent…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:48PMWhat is The Cherry Orchard? In 1903, Anton Chekhov responded vehemently to Stanislavski’s directorial interpretation of the play as a tragedy, asserting that, “what has emerged from me i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AMOh, to be young and on the run from the Corporation. That’s the plight of Moonshine, the thirteen-year-old heroine of Magic Maverick’s half term show for kids, Moonshine’s Entirely Nec…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:24AMThere is no shortage of pillars around the perimeter of the London Coliseum, but two more appeared onstage at the opening night of the English National Opera’s The Pirates of Penzance: a c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42AM“I don’t have dreams – I just want to be full,” the puppet sings, turning his pleading, extraordinarily expressive eyes towards the audience. He is Tarrare, “The Gentleman Glutton,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMThe young refugee turns to the audience, beseeching someone to help her, begging for someone to listen. When no one speaks on her behalf, she follows the bus driver, whose help she so desper…
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