Friday, April 19, 2019
Review: Three Sisters, Almeida Theatre 4.0stars Fresh from the smouldering success of Summer and Smoke, Rebecca Frecknall reignites Anton Chekhov’s 1901 classic at the Almeida Theatre. Bes…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:51AMThursday, April 18, 2019
Review: Unsung, King's Head Theatre4.0starsHistory is haunted by the silent voices of unsung women, their voices, stories and achievements overlooked due to the frustratingly simple yet damn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:25AMMonday, March 18, 2019
Review: Richard III, Alexandra Palace3.0starsFor its first play to be staged in 80 years, the Alexandra Palace Theatre houses Shakespeare’s Richard III, a Headlong production directed by J…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMSaturday, March 2, 2019
Review: The Pirates of Penzance, Wilton’s Music Hall 4.0stars Sasha Regan’s all-male cast triumphantly returns from touring Australia to once again commandeer Wilton’s Music Hall, a fu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMSunday, February 24, 2019
Review: Comrade Egg and the Chicken of Tomorrow, VAULT Festival 3.0Overall Score One of VAULT Festival’s dingier performance spaces, the Cavern, is warmed by the conspiratorial presence of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:05AMSaturday, February 16, 2019
Review: Landscape (1989), VAULT Festival2.0starsBen Kulvichit and Clara Potter-Sweet of Emergency Chorus are the creators and performers of the company’s second show as a New Diorama Gradu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AMMonday, February 11, 2019
Review: Greyscale, VAULT Festival5.0Overall ScoreOf all the men accused during the #MeToo movement, Aziz Ansari saddened me the most. I had been a fan of his work, especially the freshness a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:04AMSaturday, February 9, 2019
Review: Pinter Seven, Harold Pinter Theatre 4.0Overall Score Through an earlier press release, I lately learned of Harold Pinter’s close relationship with Danny Dyer, to whom he was appare…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:32AMSaturday, January 26, 2019
Review: Katie and Pip, VAULT Festival3.0starsI turn up to watch Katie and Pip (part of the VAULT Festival 2019) panting even more than the play’s canine star, having raced around the under…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:54AMSaturday, December 15, 2018
The Tell-Tale Heart is one of gothic virtuoso Edgar Allan Poe’s best known and best loved stories. Poe’s masterclass in the grotesque is re-imagined here by Anthony Nielson, in his first…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
A State of Mind is a one-woman verbatim piece about mental health that directly recounts the stories and lived experiences of a self-proclaimed rather “wonky” middle-aged woman named Bil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:12PMFriday, November 30, 2018
Jonathan Miller’s 2009 production of Puccini’s La Bohème returns to the London Coliseum, revived by director Natascha Metherell to mark the fortieth anniversary of Miller’s directoria…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:32AMThursday, November 22, 2018
“What if I told you that the origins of all magic, of all ritual, since the beginning of time was menstrual? Would you believe me?” So begins this theatrical extravaganza of Dr Carnesky …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AMSunday, November 11, 2018
Oxford-based production company Creation Theatre bring their adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum to Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre. Combining immersive binaural sound des…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36AMSaturday, October 27, 2018
The RSC’s production of Macbeth, directed by Polly Findlay, takes up its London residency at the Barbican, bringing the famed brutalism of the theatre right onto the stage itself. But this…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMThe National Youth Theatre’s revival of Evan Placey’s 2015 commission exploring the grey area of consent law and morality showcases some seriously formidable young acting talent. I would…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMThursday, October 18, 2018
The Styx, former ambulance depot turned bar and performance space, current home of Theatre N16 and venue for Say My Name is soon to meet its fate. Last week they resignedly tweeted “we…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:12PMSaturday, October 13, 2018
Upon entering the Watford Palace Theatre (after a surprising quick journey from Euston) I am utterly charmed by the sand bags, air raid warnings and women in vintage army uniforms dotted abo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
A confession: I am not sure whether I actually like Pinter. The last production I saw – Ian Rickson’s star-studded staging of The Birthday Party earlier this year – left me cold, t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24AMSunday, September 30, 2018
Simon Godwin delivers a great big fuck-off Shakespeare at the National, and it’s everything you’d expect it to be. Antony and Cleopatra is perhaps the most notoriously difficult of Shake…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:12PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Theatre N16, which recently took over the performance space of the aptly named ‘Styx’, located in the far reaches of North-East London, is a bare concrete space which provides a stark an…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AMFriday, September 14, 2018
It’s India in the 1940s and teenaged Jyoti is not permitted to choose whether or not she marries, only to whom, and even then, it’s a miserly selection. As she rearranges the polaroid ph…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:06AMFriday, September 7, 2018
Child stars are generally perceived to go down one of two routes. There are notorious train wrecks à la Macaulay
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PMThursday, August 23, 2018
★★ I suppose that if you were to meet any given person in the middle of ‘one of the worst
The post Review: Camden Fringe Festival, Secondhand Stories, Lion and Unicorn Theatre appeared…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:48AMSaturday, August 18, 2018
I’d forgotten how much I like pub theatres. Aside from making me feel like I’m at the Edinburgh Fringe even
The post Review: Medicine, The Hope Theatre appeared first on A Younger Theatr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:18AMMonday, August 13, 2018
When a person goes missing, what happens to those left behind? In Spiral, writer Abigail Hood sets out to explore the
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:12PM 
