Thursday, April 30, 2015
You’d have to be some Victor Meldrew-Ebenezer Scrooge hybrid (or perhaps The Guardian’s prominent theatre critic) not to absolutely adore Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith. Sean Holm…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:53PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
The collective echoes of King Charles III and A View from the Bridge still reverberate strongly around the walls of Wyndham’s Theatre: American Buffalo certainly has a big stage to fill.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:01PMThursday, March 26, 2015
I love the Unicorn Theatre. It is a space that has finely mastered a skill. A skill that theatre for young people does not mean theatre dumbed down. It is a venue that assumes a prior knowle…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:03PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
I’m a little puzzled as to just why Harvey has been revived at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. It’s a sweet and gentle story, but it is also notable in its total lack of relevance or signif…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:34PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
As was possibly inevitably the case, a hell of a lot of questions were thrown at the audience at Walking the Tightrope: The tension between art and politics, questions that we may have heard…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AMFriday, January 9, 2015
“You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” The tumultuous relationship between screen icons Bette Davis and Joan Cra…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:51PMMonday, December 1, 2014
What’s Cheryl Cole’s new name? Cheryl Verwotsit? Fillisomething? You can always judge a panto on its pop culture references. And there’s plenty shoehorned into Sleeping Booty! at the L…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:31PMThursday, November 27, 2014
I’ve got to be honest – I’ve never heard of Emlyn Williams. I’m not quite sure whether that’s embarrassing or not. He’s described in the programme as R…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:17AMThursday, October 16, 2014
Just a hop, skip and a jump away from his bust on Adelaide Street, The Trials of Oscar Wilde at Trafalgar Studios is just that: an avid and vivid telling of one of London’s most famous and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:16PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Apart from last fortnight’s excellent outing to King Charles III, I rarely venture into the West End. I kind of know what I’m going to get. And if I was trying to convert a theatre newbi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:28PMFriday, September 12, 2014
What a time to be the Almeida Theatre. Under Rupert Goold, the north London powerhouse is impressively and consistently solid, either at its base in Islington or in its West End transfer. Mo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:01PMThursday, September 4, 2014
How much do people in England know about Scotland and the impending independence referendum? And how much do they actually care? Some questions for the marketing team at Theatre Royal Stratf…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:58PMFriday, August 1, 2014
Credit where credit’s due: we are told director Roz Hopkinson had only three days of rehearsal with Anne Zander and Bonnie Adair. And so sets the scene. We become a friendly and forgiving …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PMFriday, June 27, 2014
To enter Shoreditch Town Hall for Wedding is to enter the set of a Wes Anderson film. Its kitsch aesthetic (grand surroundings up-lit in soft pink) and kooky charm work to let in only a glim…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:32AMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Fashion Victim: The Musical is puerile, vacuous and tacky. The plot is wafer thin and there is no discernible meaning or message to speak of. The characters are two-dimensional and the scrip…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:26AMThursday, June 19, 2014
One of the fears around jazz music is that it will just go on and on. And on and on. And on. One of Café Society Swing’s few saving graces is that it manages to avoid this. Despite its nu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41PMThursday, May 22, 2014
Nostalgia is firmly ‘in’ at Theatre Royal Stratford East. We had its important Oh, What A Lovely War! lambasted by the Education Secretary in February (remember?), the concept of ‘Fun…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:17AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
It would be possible for an audience to leave content enough with having experienced the fizzling layer of warmth and humour that pins together Good People. Yet dig a little deeper, and you …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
I think what I love most about the Unicorn Theatre is that it is a venue that never patronises or mollycoddles its audience. It makes shows for children and young people, yes, but they alway…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:31PMFriday, March 21, 2014
There was a tangible prickle of excitement and expectation that filtered through the audience before Dame Angela Lansbury took to the stage – an audible murmur of the imminent and tantali…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:47PMSunday, March 16, 2014
Equality within football is in a sorry state. The ‘Kick Racism Out of Football’ campaign deserves plaudits for its work in dragging the game out of its shameful escapades in the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:40AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
I was meant to see Brand New Ancients when it was at the Young Vic in January. In the end I went to see a panto instead. The next day my friends were glowing in their praise of Kate Tempest�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:00AMThursday, March 6, 2014
I left the Bush Theatre tonight quite convinced that I hadn’t enjoyed what I’d seen. It wasn’t just We Are Proud To Present A Presentation About The Herero Of Namibia, Formerly Known A…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:50AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
“There is so much that none of you will understand about me or where I come from”, Johnny Byrne sneers. And he is absolutely right. I am so grateful that the unremittingly bleak …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:38PMMonday, March 3, 2014
All being well, the first equal marriages in Britain are due to take place on 29 March, the date of The Act’s final performance at Trafalgar Studios. I’m quite convinced that the pione…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Sometimes taking your seat as an audience member can be a bit of a turgid affair: the inevitable apologising as you crunch onto someone’s toe, or give your neighbour a sharp elbow to the r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:13PMSunday, January 26, 2014
I’ve always been meaning to check out The Black Cat Cabaret. It markets itself very well, conjuring up imagery relating to the very best (or worst, depending on how you look at it) of 1930…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:16AMThursday, January 23, 2014
Anyone remember Soho Cinders? It was in the Soho Theatre’s main space a couple of seasons ago. It was a subversive -musical- account of the classic Cinderella story. And I very much enjoye…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:06AMMonday, January 20, 2014
As Director Kirk Jameson’s own programme notes attest, even those bizarre creatures who claim that they ‘don’t do musical theatre’ would have to acknowledge the creative genius of, a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:39AMFriday, January 10, 2014
The present government aside, there’s been a spate of political farces recently: the decidedly bland Coalition, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho (more of a pastiche, admittedly), and the un…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:56PMWednesday, December 18, 2013
There’s been plenty said about Grammy Award winning Lady Rizo already. Plenty said about her smoky vocals, smoky eyes and smoky settings. Plenty said about her ability to combine wit, char…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:44AM 
