Tuesday, 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 05:08PMMonday, May 19, 2014
Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved tragedies, a play that reveals a very true image of the human condition with jealousy, passion and betrayal. Othello is a victim of his own tem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:47PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
“Through song and through dance, the human being manifests his belonging to a superior community; he has unlearnt to walk and to speak and, by dancing, he is on the point of taking a fligh…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:35AMMonday, May 5, 2014
As Thebans, a new opera by Julian Anderson, has its world première at the London Coliseum, ENO proves its commitment to the future of opera and nurturing new work and talent, bringing Sopho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:45PMOpera is an exceptional art form – to speak five languages fluently, master your lung capacity as well as a professional freediver and be able to produce a sound that can break glass, but …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:22AMSaturday, April 19, 2014
Last summer Iris Theatre conquered Covent Garden as their smash hit production of Alice in Wonderland enchanted and entertained audiences in the hidden grounds of St. Paul’s Church. Going …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:02AMThursday, April 17, 2014
In September 2013 the Globe held auditions for their Globe Young Players, a new initiative aimed at giving new young talent a once in a lifetime opportunity to train with the theatre’s pro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14AMSunday, April 13, 2014
All children want their parents to be there for them, to care for them and protect them. But when a parent is deployed and leaves for military service, the balance is disrupted and it’s ha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:45PMWith Elizabeth II’s reign coming to an end in the foreseeable future, tension over the future of the throne raises questions – not only of how Charles will succeed her and if he in fact …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:38PMFriday, March 28, 2014
What is incredible about dance productions is the realisation that words are not always necessary and that so much is expressed through our body language. A three-hour story can be told thro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:28AMSunday, March 16, 2014
Inspired by Finnegans Wake, the book by Irish writer James Joyce that is more like a stream-of-consciousness linguistic experiment than prose, Riverrun explores the novel’s ‘voice of the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:16AMWednesday, March 12, 2014
The ancient story of the wildest and most passionate woman in theatre is a hard one to produce – how does an actress justify Medea’s revenge on Jason by killing her own children? How do …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:58PMMonday, March 10, 2014
It’s rare finding a simple piece of new writing that doesn’t rely on bombarding effects and clever use of space and props to compete with the money and bling put into West End shows. But…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:30AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Having a ‘round’ birthday is terrifying – it marks a new era, a new part of your life and forces you to reflect on things past. Turning 10, you are suddenly approaching the chaotic tee…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Realising you aren’t 20 anymore, that you will never be young again, and that you are hitting the big 4-0 is something most people will describe as a nightmare. A reminder that the age you…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:41PMSunday, February 2, 2014
Imagine you found out you were pregnant with a grizzly bear. This might trigger a stream of emotions: first of all shock and horror, as you wonder how a real live bear can grow inside a huma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:28PMSunday, January 5, 2014
“All children, except one, grow up.” The story of Peter Pan has become a childhood treasure: an adventure we embark on as children, then pass on to our own children and our children’s …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:36PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Growing up in the twenty-first century we are taught to be accepting, to be non-judgemental, and open to any culture, sexuality, religion and choice of lifestyle that surrounds us. Parallel …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:36AMThursday, November 21, 2013
This autumn, the English National Opera (ENO) revives its hugely successful Satyagraha, a contemporary opera by Philip Glass which broke box office records back in 2007 and was critically ac…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:29PMMonday, November 4, 2013
Children’s theatre is blooming at the moment. With Lyn Gardner’s brilliant piece for the Guardian on why children’s theatre matters and panto season upon us, the bar is set high for c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:36AMFriday, November 1, 2013
London really is a city full of multicultural events and artistic possibilities, and if you are even remotely interested in the arts there will most definitely be something you like, whether…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:32AMThursday, October 17, 2013
Russian playwright Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for his criticism of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and later forced into exile after publishing novels exposing Stalin’s prison…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:39AMTuesday, October 8, 2013
The Lyric Theatre in Soho has shown a special love for ‘concert-shows’ since the opening of Thriller Live in 2006, celebrating the music of Michael Jackson without a specific sto…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:16PMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Sometimes life is just too hard. It really is. When we are drowning in work, bills and taxes, your flatmates have stolen the last of the milk and another disastrous relationship is coming to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:38PMStamford Hill, North London, is home to Europe’s largest Hasidic Jewish community. Being strictly orthodox, culture clashes with the non-Jewish population are perhaps inevitable, and in th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:31AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
It is hard to entertain children these days. Growing up in a multi-technology world with a billion apps substituting real life events, children’s concentration spans are as short as a walk…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:45AMI think anyone who’s ever acted would agree to some extent that treading the boards is terrifying. Liberating and amazing, yes, but terrifying. Add to that not knowing any of your lin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMSunday, September 15, 2013
American playwright Susan Glaspell’s last play Springs Eternal sets off Sam Walters last season as Artistic Director at Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, and is very appropriate in a time w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:45AMFriday, August 30, 2013
Growing up, we are fed society’s morals and its expectations of us and our future. We know the standard pattern – school, A-levels, uni, career, babies – but life doesn’t always go a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:59PMThursday, August 22, 2013
The London bombings in 2005 left the country shocked and in mourning, following the death of 52 commuters in the busy morning rush hour. Losing a loved one is always extremely difficult and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:22AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Fringe festivals are known to display a variety of new writing, but there are also some hidden classics in the repertoire. This is highlighted by Lazarus Theatre’s the Tragedy of Mariam at…
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