Thursday, April 5, 2012
It’s all a bit grim in turn-of-the-century Russia and Chekhov is the man to hammer this home. The peasants are revolting (almost) and the aristocracy is wasting away, squanderin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:50AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
The King’s Speech, currently playing at the Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End, is offering AYT readers discounted tickets to see the show. Normally £52.50, you can get tickets f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:15AMMonday, April 2, 2012
For a play about not very much, The King’s Speech is strangely compelling. There can’t be many people who haven’t seen the hugely successful film, but it’s worth noti…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22AMTuesday, March 27, 2012
The Poetry Society is offering A Younger Theatre’s readers FREE tickets to the SLAMbassadors showcase on Sunday 1 April. SLAMbassadors is the Poetry Society’s slam poetry competi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:09PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
I didn’t think the National’s production of One Man Two Guvnors could be bettered. I am delighted to say I was wrong: the new incarnation at the Haymarket surpasses the comic h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AMFriday, March 16, 2012
If you can get over the fact that you’re humming along with a serial killer, you’re in for a treat. Sondheim’s score is a killer and, as the bodies mount up, this show gets…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:18AMMonday, February 27, 2012
As nabokov arts prepares for its second Arts Club at BAC next weekend, Artistic Director Joe Murphy and Associate Producer Paul Jellis give Eleanor Turney a sneak preview of what you can exp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:53PMWednesday, February 22, 2012
“It’s urgent that state-subsidised theatres continue to stage work that is not going to find an audience.” That’s playwright Simon Stephens, quoted in this Guardian this …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:16AMSunday, February 19, 2012
Gleefully irreverent and joyfully anarchic, Filter’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream bursts onto the Lyric’s stage – literally. Hyemi Shin’s Lynbury Prize-winning set st…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:09PMFriday, February 17, 2012
Web Editor Eleanor Turney popped along to The Stage Events’ How to get seen by the right people, lead by John Byrne. Here, she reports back John Byrne, who writes the ‘Dear John…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:56AMSaturday, February 11, 2012
Sean Holmes tells Eleanor Turney about Filter Theatre's forthcoming production at the Lyric Hammersmith and unveils the planning, designing and complete chaos that goes on backstage.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:53AMMonday, February 6, 2012
Eleanor Turney chats to the director and writer of Theatre503's Mathematics of the Heart about finding the perfect equation of compromise and collaboration when working together on the show.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:57AMThursday, January 26, 2012
Who would have thought double homicide could be so, well, dull? In fairness, the murders are carried out off-stage, before the action of this play starts, but playwright Emily Mann has still…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:26AMWednesday, January 11, 2012
Atmospheric without ever quite becoming truly chilling, and engaging without being totally captivating, The Kreutzer Sonata is a macabre little tale of jealousy, fear and murder. The whole p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:49PMWednesday, December 28, 2011
It may have more dead babies than your average Christmas show, but Bristol Old Vic’s Coram Boy has all the other components of a knock-out. Coram Boy was first seen at the National in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:25AMMonday, December 19, 2011
When one starts a review by remarking on how amazing the set is, it is easy to assume that this is because the other aspects of the show were less satisfactory. Rest assured that this is not…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMSunday, December 11, 2011
Tell Tale Hearts' director Natasha Holmes talks to Eleanor Turney about developing new children's production The Snow Queen.
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:54PMThursday, December 8, 2011
In a land far, far away (well, Europe), NIE is waiting to tell you a story, using as many inventive and genuinely clever devices and verbal or theatrical tricks as they can cram into just …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Southwark Playhouse’s innovative and beautiful production of Howl’s Moving Castle is the first time that Diana Wynne-Jones’ novel has been brought to the stage. It i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:29AMThursday, December 1, 2011
If musical theatre is not your thing, then this big, in-your-face, unashamedly ridiculous show is not the one to change to your mind, but if you like a bit of razzle dazzle then this deliver…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:55AMSunday, November 27, 2011
The one complaint I can make about Matilda is that the songs are so darn catchy that I had to put up with weird looks on the tube home as I hummed along. Suffice to say that I should leave t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:55PMThursday, November 17, 2011
Burlesque is a clever and moving new musical from Adam Meggido (who also directs) and Roy Smiles, which deserves a rip-roaring production. While this one had its moments – of both brillian…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12AMThursday, November 10, 2011
This melancholy, macabre and throughly modern tale has lost none of its wit or bite as it journeys round the country. It has been tightened up since its stellar London run at Battersea Arts …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
I saw Akram Khan’s DESH at Sadler’s Wells a couple of weeks ago. I love Khan’s dance, but have had some issues with the last two pieces of his that I’ve seen (the oth…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMFriday, October 28, 2011
Halfway between the school play and a history lesson, this somewhat hit-and-miss production has community, and local stories, at its big, generous heart. South London-based London Bubble has…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AMWednesday, October 12, 2011
There is nothing funnier than other people’s suffering, so they say, and this bittersweet comedy from Steven Berkoff certainly capitalises on that. Following the mundane ups and downs …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:58AMMonday, October 10, 2011
Who would have thought that a sweet, gentle four-hander about a Christian youth group in a small village could be so moving, and so brilliant? Everyone’s been raving about Operation Gr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:20AMThursday, October 6, 2011
Akram Khan is, as ever, utterly virtuosic in his movement, commanding the huge, empty stage of Sadler’s Wells with energy, humanity and beauty. However, his collaborators for DESH, wit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:26AMWednesday, September 14, 2011
In typical Kneehigh style, The Wild Bride is exuberant, gruesome fun, bursting with good tunes and playful staging. However, for a show that describes itself as a “feminist fairytal…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:45AMSunday, September 11, 2011
Not many shows begin with a grinning Italian trying to milk members of the audience (never been gladder we didn’t sit on the front row), but this wry, witty, gentle show just wants to …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:38PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
FELA! is a bouncy, buoyant, corker of production that rather loses its way halfway through. The first half is an utter joy. Bill T Jones’ choreography does not flag for a second, the music…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10AM 
