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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Review: Hamlet, Almeida Theatre by Hattie Pierce

Robert Icke’s Hamlet, at Almeida Theatre, has been eagerly anticipated, particularly since the announcement that Andrew Scott would be playing the lead. Icke’s productions of Oresteia an…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AM
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Review: The Long Trick, VAULT Festival by Hattie Pierce

In Marietta Kirkbride’s new play The Long Trick, Tristan lives aboard a boat on the Helford river in Cornwall, and reluctantly robs second homes to support himself and his teenage daughter…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PM

Review: Earthling, VAULT Festival by Hattie Pierce

Gemma Arrowsmith’s comedy sketch show Earthling is a series of sketches which present the best and the worst of humanity to an objective alien observer. Arrowsmith is fixated by the events…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PM
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Review: The Texas Tax Man, VAULT Festival by Hattie Pierce

Luke Courtier’s latest show, The Texas Tax Man, is a meta-theatrical comedy about freelancers and the shame of missing the self-assessment tax deadline. Two shy, thoughtful cowboys set out…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PM
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Review: Anyone Can Whistle, Union Theatre by Hattie Pierce

The Union Theatre’s decision to put on a rendition of Anyone Can Whistle is exciting: it is a lesser known Sondheim musical which has never enjoyed much fame or success.  It is a strangel…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:54AM
Monday, January 23, 2017

Review: Assisted Suicide – The Musical, Southbank Centre by Hattie Pierce

Liz Carr, actor and prominent disability rights activist (D-list celebrity, in her own words), brought the enormous and tangled issue of euthanasia to the stage in Assisted Suicide: The Musi…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:12AM
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Review: Dr. Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman, Soho Theatre by Hattie Pierce

Marisa Carnesky and her group of Menstruants have created a fantastically provocative and hilarious show which seeks to undo the taboos surrounding menstruation. This group of eight daring p…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:06PM
Friday, December 23, 2016

Review: In A Pickle, artsdepot by Hattie Pierce

In A Pickle was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and originally performed as part of The World Shakespeare Festival in 2012. It is a totally immersive show designed for 3-5 year…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AM
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Review: The Three Musketeers, Pleasance Theatre by Hattie Pierce

Cyphers’ production of The Three Musketeers sets itself the ambitious task of reducing the whole of Alexander Dumas’ dense and action-driven story into a comedy stage production, using j…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24AM
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Review: Mad Meg, Blue Elephant Theatre by Hattie Pierce

Mad Meg is a fine piece bringing together music and dance to tell a simple but very memorable tale, as the finale to the Blue Elephant Theatre’s ELEFEET Dance Festival. The piece is devise…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PM
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Review: Trainspotting, The Vaults by Hattie Pierce

In Your Face Theatre’s returning production of Trainspotting is first and foremost a show, rather than a piece of theatre. Having moved into a bigger venue at The Vaults on its return to L…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:36AM
Monday, November 7, 2016

Review: The Acedian Pirates, Theatre 503 by Hattie Pierce

Set in the top of a lighthouse in an unfamiliar past or future dystopia, The Acedian Pirates explores the morality and logic of war through the story of a failing occupation. This play knits…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06PM

Review: Rubber Ring, Pleasance Theatre by Hattie Pierce

From Velvet Trumpet comes James McDermott’s debut piece, Rubber Ring:  a one man show about growing up gay in a rural Norfolk village. McDermott writes and performs in this open account o…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AM
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Review: Acorn, The Courtyard Theatre by Hattie Pierce

Maud Dromgoole’s new work Acorn is a highly intelligent play in all aspects. It is a two-hander which uses the myths of Persephone and Eurydice to tell a contemporary story about female st…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:19PM
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Review: Party Trap, Shoreditch Town Hall by Hattie Pierce

Ross Sutherland’s first drama Party Trap is an entirely palindromic play (title included) in which every line in the first half of the play is repeated in reverse in the second. Out of the…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:12PM
Friday, September 9, 2016

Review: The Mission, Greenwich Theatre by Hattie Pierce

The use of physical theatre in this production is its main strength and certainly hints at the great potential this young company have. Marrying this physical theatre with a science-based st…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:26AM
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Review: The Inevitable Heartbreak of Gavin Plimsole, Greenwich Theatre by Hattie Pierce

In this inventive and ambitious piece of theatre, SharkLegs pulls off an impressive feat by making an interactive adventure story both touching and very, very silly. Gavin Plimsole finds out…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:10PM
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Review: Cats, Selfies and the Scattered Mind of the Incurable Dreamer, The Space by Hattie Pierce

Cats, Selfies and the Scattered Mind of the Incurable Dreamer is a verbal collage; a comedic piece of internet verbatim which is also a loosely coherent narrative about two strangers connect…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:09PM
Monday, August 22, 2016

Review: Sally’s Alright, Etcetera Theatre by Hattie Pierce

Sarah Tattersall has written and produced a strong debut show in Sally’s Alright. It’s an engaging mix of a show, in which Tattersall plays a 20-something ‘washed-up woman’, now clea…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:16AM
Monday, August 15, 2016

Review: Thunderstorm, London Coliseum by Hattie Pierce

Thunderstorm’s busy opening night at the London Coliseum marked the opening of The Shanghai Season. Shanghai Opera’s Thunderstorm was developed as an opera from the play of the same …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:21PM
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Review: Fury, Soho Theatre by Hattie Pierce

Fury is playing as part of the ‘Who Runs The World? Girls’ Autumn Season at the Soho Theatre, and it starts off the run on an exceptionally high note. Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s newest pla…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:57PM
Friday, July 8, 2016

Review: Valiant, So and So Arts Club by Hattie Pierce

David Hare said of verbatim theatre, that it “does what journalism fails to do”. Lanna Joffrey’s verbatim play Valiant, which is playing as part of the Women in War Festival, brings to…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:03AM
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Review: Grey Man, Theatre503 by Hattie Pierce

Lulu Raczka’s brilliant double monologue Grey Man, playing at Theatre503 this week, was developed out of a one-hander first performed as part of the Shakespeare In Shoreditch festival in A…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15PM
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Review: The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse by Hattie Pierce

The constancy of Marc and Bella Chagall’s love for one another from the moment they met until Bella’s death was a consistent influence on Marc Chagall’s work. Their love also provides…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PM
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Review: This Much, Soho Theatre by Hattie Pierce

This Much (Or an Act of Violence Against the Institution of Marriage) is a richly detailed and astutely written piece about the difficulty of being certain of what we want from our relations…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:45AM

Review: Rapture, Etcetera Theatre by Hattie Pierce

Lisa McMullin’s latest work Rapture raises challenging questions about the value of individuals’ lives in a world where continuing to sustain them all is the high price of civilisation b…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:19AM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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