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 11:44AMYou would have to be a very miserly grouch indeed not to be enchanted by Candide. This is a raucous, bawdy, energetic, but most importantly fun production: an intelligent and witty critiq…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:27AMIt’s almost inevitable that a pantomime housed in the Leicester Square Theatre downstairs space, and called Dick! Comes Again: Bigger, Longer, Harder, would be free of that pesky subtlety…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:58AMLittle did Lee Harvey Oswald know that 50 years later his mug shot would still be one of those prolific criminal images, so resonant in pop culture, political and social history, conspiracy …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:28PMIt’s a bit of a risk to rely almost solely on an old fat-backed TV to keep an audience sustained. Valentina Ceschi’s gamble just about pays off in this sweet and mellow retelling of the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:01AMThree very distinct pieces of contemporary dance were presented to the Sadler’s Wells crowd this evening. What linked them was the impressive level of skill and verve employed in each, as …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:41AMThe last time I went to the Arcola was for one of those uber-cool east London club nights. Zoe Ford’s production of Titus Andronicus was more similar to my last visit that one may first th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:49AMIt’s been almost a year since I last saw Clout Theatre perform, again at Battersea Arts Centre, in its truly excellent How A Man Crumbled. I had never heard of Clout before this, and I qui…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:09AMThe Wrong Crowd aims to address, as they put it, “a hunger for real, tangible theatricality”. It employs and relies upon a heightened sense of the carnivalesque, of exaggerated g…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:46AMI’ve never really been all that enthralled by Shakespeare’s comedies. Give me a meaty King Lear or Macbeth any day, dripping with blood and venom, than the lighter stuff, which I’ve al…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:11AMI have a terrible confession to make. I arrived late to the Press Night for Hysteria at the Hampstead Theatre. And more fool me, because Terry Johnson’s production zips along merrily, prov…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:14PMAnd so it came to be that, on a muggy and uncomfortable late summer evening, the Finborough fell foul to the elements, as an audience of just thirteen braced the heat to take in Robert Price…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:59AM“If you remember the sixties, you weren’t there” is an often quoted line, as 60’s Britain, with ‘Swinging London’ in particular, receives the usual rose-tinted and sentim…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:37AMPuccini’s Tosca is 114 years old, and is originally set at a time of an Italy divided, facing the onslaught of a Napoleonic invasion. Yet its themes, as expressed by this production’s po…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AMAlexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride premiered at the Royal Court in 2008. Five years on, and with Equal Marriage finally trudging its way through the statute books, and with horrific scenes of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:11AMConnections at the National Theatre is undoubtedly a great and useful idea. With the risk of ‘drama’ becoming a dirty word within secondary schools, and the future of youth theatres far …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:58PMIt is hard not to be slightly envious of Valentijn Dhaenens. Dhaenens, with his sinister charm and understated charisma, takes to the space like a soul possessed in his eighty-minute solo to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:04PMHard Feelings was first performed in 1982, before more than meriting its transfer to the Bush Theatre a year later. What makes this so striking is that Doug Lucie’s play still feels so rel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:42AMIn life and in office, Margaret Hilda Thatcher was the inspiration behind much theatre, often that of revolt or opposition, yet also a form of theatre that chimed with her neo-liberal princi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:56AMIt seems that you can always rely on Rufus Norris to create a piece of theatre pulsating with soulful melancholy that wears its heart most deliberately on its sleeve. Just like other recent …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:57AMDisgraced is a hugely academic and content-heavy piece. At times it feels a little like a university seminar, as concepts and theories as far-ranging as Orientalism, Cultural Appropriation, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:10PMEvery so often, perhaps once in a generation, an actor can seem to have been born to play a role. Sir Laurence Olivier as Richard III, for instance. In The Hothouse, on now at Trafalgar Stud…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33PMIt took me a while to warm to Maria Friedman’s production of Merrily We Roll Along. At first I didn’t quite get it. I was bemused rather than enthralled, as song after song appeared to f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:14PM“It smells of hairspray and farts”, snarled the man next to me in the, admittedly airless, basement of the Leicester Square Theatre. This tells you all you need to know about the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:50PMYoung theatrical talent is a very delicate thing. Up-and-coming writers, directors and performers need to be nurtured, supported and encouraged by those who have already cut their teeth in t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:37AMRodney Ackland’s Before The Party, a play about a family painfully attempting to maintain their veneer of upper-middle class respectability, was a real hit when it debuted at St. Martin’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMWhilst I may never have heard the name Charles Castronovo before last night, the Italian-American tenor is famous in the world of opera, and so it is a real coup for the intimate King’s He…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:25AMThere are many off-West End venues that do their upmost to support and nurture up-and-coming theatrical and artistic talent. See the work of the Young Vic or Unicorn theatres, or Battersea A…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22AMBeing a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a very prestigious thing indeed. The seemingly endless roll-call of talent that has graduated from Silk Street and gone on to ma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:02AMI recently wrote an article entitled In Defence of The Arts, in which I set out to deconstruct the fundamentally flawed logic behind the idea that cutting back arts funding would be a “…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:05AMOld Saw at the Little Angel Theatre as part of Firsts Festival
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