Saturday, December 20, 2014
It is scientifically proven that music is beneficial for young children’s development. The UK has various different pre-school activities for young ones stimulating their sense of rhythm, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:33AMTuesday, December 2, 2014
Creating pioneering theatre for a younger audience, Polka Theatre takes on the much loved story of the boy who never grows up, a story that has stayed with us for over 100 years and keeps in…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:45AMMonday, November 24, 2014
Known for his quirks and inventiveness, Peter Sellars transforms ENO into a visually mesmerising view on the gospel, seen from the perspective of Mary Magdalene, in the world staged premiere…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:47PMMonday, November 17, 2014
For a younger generation, opera is often thought to be stiff and too pompous, something removing itself from the bluntness and reality of life and staging grand performances only for a well-…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:21PMSunday, November 9, 2014
Reinventing the classics can open up some incredible theatrical choices. Relating to today’s world of city problems and mayhem, the works of the past can open up issues of our lives in the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:04AMMonday, November 3, 2014
Joining the remembrance of Britain at war, the World War II musical Girlfriends transforms the intimate space at the Union Theatre into a Bomber Command air base in Norfolk in the darkest da…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:04PMSunday, October 19, 2014
After Little Revolution interrogated ideas of community and how it divides us, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town moves into the Almeida after its successful run in New York, and examines the ever…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:33PMMonday, October 13, 2014
When approaching Shakespeare in the twenty-first century many choose to re-invent the classical plays, updating the setting to a post-modern world of chaos, smart-phones and Tinder. Relating…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:13AMSunday, September 21, 2014
It is such a rewarding experience going to the theatre with children. Tucked in the back on your own, being a 20-something in a small studio of what seems like a flood of kids can seem prett…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:19AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
What fascinates me about Arcola Theatre’s revival of Philip Ridley’s Ghost From A Perfect Place is the explosiveness of it: it’s never aggressive, but cleverly opens up the audience’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:56PMAs part of Deloitte Ignite ’14 at the Royal Opera House – a contemporary arts festival celebrating myth – the renowned dance company BalletBoyz return for another season of eclectic da…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:39PMThursday, September 11, 2014
In today’s society we don’t need to have children. Back in the days when we used to hit each other on the head with a stick, breeding was humanity’s way of survival. It is a universal …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:07AMSunday, September 7, 2014
Returning to New Diorama Theatre with their rep season of solo performances, The Faction’s Reptember is an exciting collection of re-imagined classics by some of the boldest and most thril…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:05AMSunday, August 31, 2014
Lazarus Theatre Company is known for its imaginative and visually stunning interpretations of classical texts, involving music and movement and a strong sense of ensemble. Returning to Trist…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:09AMWednesday, August 27, 2014
With an intimate dim-lit atmosphere in the cabaret-like St James Studio, writer and performer Benjamin Scheuer opens up his heart to the lucky handful of audience members, expressing a very …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:12PMTuesday, August 26, 2014
The Arcola has opened the doors to its annual Grimeborn Opera Festival, showing its great diversity and flavour in its programming but also that it’s a theatre that welcomes new work from …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:45PMSunday, August 10, 2014
The country is marking the centenary of WW1 this year with countless events and productions inspired by the outbreak of WW1 in 1914 and its consequences for our heritage, a generation lost …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:46AMWednesday, July 23, 2014
Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s screen play Shakespeare In Love took the public by storm, and even though critics weren’t exactly impressed (when are they ever) it harvested several Oscar…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00PMMonday, July 14, 2014
Following its sold-out run in 2013, The Events return to the Young Vic questioning how far our humanity and forgiveness can stretch. Exploring what it is that makes us human and how we const…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:03AMSome stories live in our hearts forever. Particularly great love stories – and always tragic ones, notably – stay with us, haunt us and somehow make us believe in the better in mankind, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:52AMMonday, July 7, 2014
It has been said by many theatre-practitioners (and most recently by David Wood in an interview with Lyn Gardner) that creating theatre for younger audiences is not only one of the most rewa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:23AMTheatre at its best should be thought-provoking but with tones of lightness making it a mix of enjoyment and heartache, stimulating both the mind and soul. In the financial crisis it seems t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:01AMForbidden Broadway, the cult off-Broadway musical revue, has hit Menier Chocolate Factory and is ready to spice up the world of musical theatre with saucy, on-point slaps to old as well as n…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:51AMSunday, June 29, 2014
What is so powerful about Greek mythology is that its worldly themes have survived a myriad of generations. What was a re-telling of the human condition, meant to entertain and move its rece…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:36PMMonday, June 23, 2014
One of the treasures of the London theatre scene is when summer finally shows its face and the open air season begins. There is a charming sense of community when one is sharing a theatrical…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:30PMMonday, June 16, 2014
Oscar Wilde’s provocative tale of the innocent Dorian Gray’s transformation from virtue into a life of hedonism is often retold on stage and is a wonderful play of vanity, sex and the co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:29PMMonday, June 9, 2014
Terry Gilliam, member of cult comedy team Monty Python, is renowned for his anarchic style, vivid imagination, and his use of surreal imagery in his storytelling. With his successful directi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10PMWednesday, June 4, 2014
When the Globe opened the doors for foreign companies performing Shakespeare in their native language with Globe to Globe in 2012, they opened up Shakespeare’s beloved texts to new possib…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:59PMSunday, June 1, 2014
John Burgess’ new production Between Us at the Arcola Theatre mixes stand-up and thought-provoking monologues, questioning inequality and how we are living our lives today. Not easy to dig…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AMThursday, May 29, 2014
With technology booming in the creative world, the argument is that some things should be left to blossom on its own, without high-tech interference. Some say a simple set and natural stagin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Così Fan Tutte, Mozart’s dark comic opera, tells the story of love, fidelity and desire in a new production at the ENO by the exciting theatre company Improbable. Exploring 1950s Coney Is…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:08PM 
