Thursday, May 26, 2016
For a city with fewer than half a million residents, Bristol is home to a huge number of theatre venues, companies and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, May 9, 2016
When an architect stands in a theatre’s newly refurbished foyer – champagne chilling and expectant press waiting – and announces that “there’s
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This month, Jenny Sealey will direct a production called A Different Romeo and Juliet, with an entirely disabled cast. This may not
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Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro both feature a loveable rogue called Figaro. Welsh National Opera has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, December 21, 2015
For David Evans, theatre is about creating something out of nothing. “One of the most exciting things is when you walk on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMFriday, October 30, 2015
The man who made Glyndebourne.
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“There is all this talent,” says choreographer Hofesh Shechter, “and what are we doing with it?”. Well, in Shechter’s case, more than
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMFriday, January 23, 2015
January and February are AYT Career Central months with guest blogs and features from arts professionals. Our debut guest blog is from Eleanor Turney, Editor of The Space I started as Int…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:05AMWednesday, December 24, 2014
If you’re not feeling quite Christmassy enough yet, get yourself – and any small people in your life – down to the Tobacco Factory. With a jolly evil baddie, incompetent side-kicks, tr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:13AMFriday, October 31, 2014
Jake and I are delighted to announce that we have appointed Laura Stevens as the new Editor of A Younger Theatre. She will be taking over from me from Monday 3rd November, and can be reached…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMFriday, October 10, 2014
Peter Brook Awards: Incoming Festival We’re delighted to announce that the Incoming Festival co-curated by A Younger Theatre and New Diorama, has been invited to present a new Peter Br…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:20AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
When Act One lasts nearly two hours and the right people still aren’t married, one could be forgiven for spending the interval pondering how many more laments, double-crossings, betrayals,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:47AMMonday, September 29, 2014
After four-and-a-half years as Editor of A Younger Theatre, I’ll be stepping down in November. I’ve been freelance for the past three years, which has made it possible to fit i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:41AMMonday, September 22, 2014
DJ has just completed a Diploma in Performance Making for adults with learning disabilities at Central School of Speech and Drama. He talks here about what makes him tick as a performer, and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:44AMThursday, September 11, 2014
A week ago, Breeders – a new comedy I’ve commissioned, developed and produced – had its first ever performance at the St. James Theatre. As the lights faded to black, writer Ben O…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:52AMThursday, June 26, 2014
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels couldn’t be cheesier if it tried, but if you can get past that then it’s a fun, old-fashioned evening of excellent musical entertainment. Despite not havi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:43AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
In the flickering candlelight of the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse, Derek Walcott’s epic poem is brought to mesmerising life. Masterful performances from Jospeh Marcell and Jade Anouka make…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:48AMThursday, May 8, 2014
Following the death of her son, Mary finally gets her chance to speak in Deborah Warner’s powerful staging of Colm Toibin’s book. The incomparable Fiona Shaw gives voice to Mary …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:20AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
“Really emotional and quite magical,” says Director Peter Glanville about Skitterbang Island, an opera for very young children, collaboratively put together by Polka Theatre and the Litt…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:33AMSunday, April 20, 2014
“If you could hold on to one memory for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?” This is the question at the heart of Dissolve. Awkward City’s latest production jour…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:19AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Dear film folk, I’ve never studied filmmaking. I barely know which end of a camera to do a selfie into. But being an actor who is in need of footage for a showreel, I read A LOT of casting…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:31AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory usually does, well, Shakespeare, so to tackle Tom Stoppard’s contemporary play (first performed in 1993) as part of this year’s season is a bit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:01AMThursday, March 20, 2014
A mixed bill is always going to have highs and lows, and although Kings of the Dance does have the odd less-successful moment, on the whole it is a triumph. Featuring Roberto Bolle, Marcelo …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:02AMFriday, February 21, 2014
Putting a four-and-a-half-hour, two-part adaptation of Jane Eyre on the main stage at Bristol Old Vic is a brave thing to do. Seeing both of them in one day is a bit of a slog (although not …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:29AMSaturday, February 8, 2014
Glass House is not an easy play to write about. In its presentation at the Albany, Cardboard Citizens uses forum theatre techniques to explore Kate Tempest’s story of a fractured famil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:07PMSochi 2014 is theatre-as-activism done to a very high standard. Tess Berry-Hart’s verbatim play takes interviews she conducted with Russian LGBT people and edits the results into a co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:29AMFriday, January 31, 2014
NEW WOLSEY YOUNG ASSOCIATES, THE WARDROBE ENSEMBLE AND KILL THE BEAST HEADLINE THE FIRST INCOMING FESTIVAL A Younger Theatre and New Diorama are delighted to announce the companies that will…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:49AMThursday, December 19, 2013
When the staff in the cloak room are humming the songs before you even get into the theatre, you know you’re in for a good show. Daniel Evans’s production of Oliver! is bursting …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:32AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Emerging theatre artists are being offered a chance to develop their work and to perform it as part of a Souk Festival in a new initiative from pop-up theatre company Theatre Delicatessen. S…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:27AMSaturday, December 14, 2013
The Duck House can’t decide if it wants to be a satire, a farce, or both, and is consequently frustrating. Ben Miller is fun as Labour MP Robert Houston, who is planning to defect to t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:53AMSunday, December 8, 2013
My nine-year-old companion enjoyed Alice in Wonderland rather more than I did, but with one of the Polka’s child-centric shows that is as it should be. I found the acting style very ch…
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