Sunday, April 13, 2025
Royal Court, LiverpoolPlaying the feted Liverpool FC manager, Mullan leads a bustling new stage version of David Peace's 2013 novel
Moments before Red or Dead begins, we watch Peter Mullan w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2025
Octagon, BoltonSarah Brigham's new production is beautifully designed but struggles to capture the drama's claustrophobic tension
Before it got into the hands of readers, John Steinbeck's 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2025
Oldham Coliseum at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldhamafshan d'souza-lodhi's play, commissioned to celebrate the saved-from-closure Coliseum, fails to rise to the occasion
Seven months after th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2025
King's Arms, SalfordDavid Thacker's production of the Irish playwright's ambiguous play is over-emphatic in parts but transfixing in quieter moments
This is how it always goes for Frank Hard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2024
Royal Exchange, ManchesterJosh Seymour's production of the 90s musical about Viv Nicholson's big win, and how she spent it, leaves you feeling a bit short-changed
Just like that, £152,000…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2024
Everyman, LiverpoolThis 'rock'n'roll' panto is far from Grimm, but not in a good way
Somewhere within this show's knot of plot twists and tangles, you may find Rapunzel. While it is traditio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 17, 2024
53two, ManchesterIn a lively revival of this 2009 tussle between love and identity, its barbed verbal sparring overcomes the slightly dated sexual dynamics
How charged and potent words can b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 13, 2024
Royal Court, LiverpoolStaged in their hometown, the true story of one of the first all-female rock bands is told with low stakes, though the singing is great
Despite being one of the world's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2024
Satirical musicals are trending at this year's fringe, but there are plenty of intense one-person shows too, a knockout coming-of-age drama, and the unmissable return of Every Brilliant Thin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2024
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterThe streets could be meaner in this new stage adaptation, which is at its best when exploring the challenges of the immigrant experience
Sprays of liq…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2024
Royal Court, LiverpoolSet in a covent and a prison, Jonathan Harvey's knockabout new play is full of sledgehammer innuendo
Jonathan Harvey's new play could make even the least pious nun clu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 8, 2024
Stanley theatre; Toxteth Reservoir, LiverpoolDenis Lavant is remarkable as old man Krapp in Beckett's minor masterpiece, while Adrian Dunbar shrouds his short radio play in total darkness
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 9, 2021
Review: The System, The Original Theatre Company3.0Overall ScoreThe System is out to set a world record. The world record for "the longest, live single take with a steadicam." We're told abo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Today we're speaking to Evelyn Roberts, the mastermind behind a new Shakespeare festival in Manchester. It promises audiences some light relief and definitely no stuffyness. For all the dive…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, August 2, 2021
Review: Bottom's Dream and Twelfth Night, The GOAT Mcr 3.0Overall Score Manchester audiences don't have to travel back in time to Ancient Greece to see live theatre in an amphitheatre. The n…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 13, 2021
The writer of Anna X, which stars The Crown's Emma Corrin and Industry's Nabhaan Rizwan talks to us about moving from the Vault Festival to a major West End theatre and putting certain playw…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 27, 2021
Review: Outlier, Bristol Old Vic 3.0Overall Score Gigs may currently be off, but this co-production with Old Vic Ferment fuses their kinetic atmosphere and music-informed storytelling into a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AM[SHARE]Monday, June 7, 2021
Review: LIT, Nottingham Playhouse3.0Overall ScoreSomehow it's already June. For schoolkids, the summer holiday is near. A time when you might find love, fall out of love, find new friends an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 1, 2021
The temporary transfer of live to online theatre has changed the way many critics, like our own Matt Barton approaches and writes about it. Here, he considers whether we should be more lenie…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 9, 2021
Review: The Barn, The Turbine Theatre3.0Overall ScoreIf you're enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a member, with every penny going towards keeping AYT going and paying our v…
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Review: Money, Southwark Playhouse/ represent.theatre3.0Overall ScoreIf you're enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a member, with every penny going towards keeping AYT going …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oxford Playhouse3.0Overall ScoreIf you're enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a member, with every penny going towards keeping AYT going a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42AM[SHARE]Monday, March 8, 2021
Review: Stand Up 4 Women, Phoenix Arts Club3.0Overall ScoreIf you're enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a patreon with every penny going towards keeping paying AYT going and…
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2021
Review: Circles, Living Record Festival3.0Overall ScoreIf you're enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a patreon with every penny going towards keeping paying AYT going and pay…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:18AM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2020
In our latest interview, Matt Barton speaks to Michael Buffong, artistic director of Talawa, about their new digital series Tales from the Front Line, the future of theatre post-Covid, and T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2020
Review: Phoenix, English Touring Theatre4.0Overall ScoreAs the country endures a second lockdown, Mike Bartlett's audio drama revisits one of the biggest controversies of the first. His 17-m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2020
Review: PETRICHOR, ThickSkin Theatre3.0Overall ScoreOver lockdown we've become accustomed to watching theatre through computer screens, but ThickSkin's latest production asks its audience to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Review: Macbeth, Big Telly Theatre 2.0Overall Score This is perhaps the most definitive proof yet that 'The Scottish Play' is cursed. Zoom has been the repurposed vessel for theatre's desper…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 17, 2020
In our latest interview, Matt Barton interviews Georgia Leanne Harris, the artistic director of London's newest theatre. They talk about opening a theatre in a pandemic, and Harris's vision …
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