Tuesday, June 13, 2017
John Boyne’s novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas became a worldwide bestseller on its publication in 2006; told from the point of view of nine-year-old Bruno, it has faced many criticisms…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:06PMTuesday, June 6, 2017
In the week that “covfefe” both baffled and delighted the Twittersphere, it seems appropriate to be watching a play that examines just how quickly news can spread through the medium of 1…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:05AMSunday, October 30, 2016
Bill Russell and Henry Krieger’s Side Show has had two Broadway outings, neither lasting long on the Great White Way; this Southwark Playhouse production marks the show’s UK premiere and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:12PMMonday, October 24, 2016
My Mother Medea flips the ancient tragedy of Medea on its head by removing the focus from the tragic heroine and placing it on her doomed children, while transporting them to 2016. The show …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:33PMSaturday, October 8, 2016
The Amish Project was originally written by Jessica Dickey as a one-woman piece, designed to show off an actress’s character skills in multi-roling. The students from Saint Mary’s Univer…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:51AMSaturday, July 23, 2016
To a soundtrack of mid-2000s classics, Some Girl(s) sees groom-to-be ‘Guy’ (is it a name or a moniker for all of the male sex?) on a trip across the USA to see a selection of his ex-girl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:25AMSunday, April 3, 2016
George Price is an intriguing figure. Originally a staunch atheist, he married then divorced a Catholic woman before undergoing an intense religious conversion. His work was enough to gain h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:20PMThursday, March 10, 2016
Minor Delays was one of the toasts of the Edinburgh Fringe last year, with stars a-plenty and a bright future predicted for this sketch comedy trio. Now the show has transferred to the Soho …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:39PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Chris Urch’s Bruntwood award-winning second play is an example of an excellent script translated into a stunning performance by truly fine acting – no gimmicks, no flashy lighting design…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40PMThursday, December 31, 2015
For this year’s Christmas show, the Eastern Angles have teamed up with Shanty Theatre from the south west for a caper inspired by a fishing dispute of 1896 – it sounds unlikely, I grant …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:45PMFriday, December 4, 2015
In October, several media outlets reported the story of a woman being ejected from a performance of The Bodyguard for singing obnoxiously and disturbing the show. Perhaps she should take a t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:20PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
This production of The Bogus Woman was first seen at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake, and audiences around the country have now had the opportunity to see the show as part of the theatre’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:49AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
In the last year or so, London has welcomed a flurry of Greek drama to its stages; while the Almeida Theatre most notably offered its Greeks season, other venues have seen revivals of Electr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:26AMThursday, November 5, 2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby has long captured the imagination of artists in all different fields, with adaptations of the story showing up in drama, dance, film, opera, ra…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:45PMThursday, October 22, 2015
It’s 1988, and Thatcher’s government has just brought in Section 28 – legislation that stated schools “shall not intentionally promote homosexuality” or “promote the teac…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:28PMSaturday, October 17, 2015
Shortly before IdeasTap was sadly forced into closure earlier this year, the charity announced the winners of a playwriting competition; subsequently these four playwrights were left without…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:37AMSaturday, September 19, 2015
Think Jane Eyre and you probably think corsets, grand houses and Yorkshire moors – but maybe not confetti, flames and Gnarls Barkley? Then think again, because this production is imaginati…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:00PMMonday, September 14, 2015
On a clean white stage, a father and daughter engage in banter about Little Mix, his lack of cleaning skills, and her refusal to buy the ‘right’ school shoes. He keeps her in line, but l…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:13AMThe writers at this year’s HighTide Festival seem to love a prolonged silence to start: Luke Norris does it in So Here We Are, and in Brenda E V Crowe utilises the same trick of making her…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:13AMSunday, September 13, 2015
Winner of a 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, Luke Norris’s debut play is now co-produced with the Royal Exchange Theatre and is heading for a Manchester transfer later this month. It�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:30AMFriday, July 31, 2015
Jonathan Holloway’s reincarnation of Stevenson’s Gothic classic Jekyll and Hyde claims to “appropriate and reinvigorate the story for contemporary audiences” and prov…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:31AMSaturday, July 18, 2015
The grittiest work in Bourne’s repertoire, The Car Man returns to Sadler’s Wells after a new UK tour, bringing its stifling heat, brutal murder and deadly revenge to the capital’s lead…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:24AMTuesday, July 7, 2015
OperaUpClose aims to bring operas to whole new audiences by showing off the form in all its glory, in accessible, surprising stagings of classics “without compromising on musical standards…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:52PMWednesday, May 27, 2015
And Then There Were None is one of Agatha Christie’s most popular and widely-read crime novels, and one of her most difficult conundrums to crack. It has been adapted for film, TV, radio a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
A touring co-production between Black Country Touring, Cast Doncaster, Oldham Coliseum and Southbank Centre, United Colours of FrustrAsian fuses storytelling and live music in an exploration…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:03PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Emteaz Hussain’s Blood stops off at the Soho Theatre on its UK tour, after its premiere in Coventry last month. A kind of Romeo and Juliet for the modern age (but so much more than a rewor…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:36PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Grab your flares and your disco balls, because Saturday Night Fever is back in the UK six years after it last toured the country. This new production aims to maximise both the grit and joy o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33PMWednesday, January 28, 2015
In the first act of Taken At Midnight, Irmgard Litten (Penelope Wilton) looks ahead to a time when “all memory is forgotten and only history remains”. On Holocaust Memorial Day, and the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:35AMThursday, January 22, 2015
Orfeo is widely considered to be the first master work of opera ever written, and is certainly the oldest surviving opera that is still regularly performed today. Pair that heritage with dir…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:30AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
BalletBoyz’s The Talent company kick off the Sadler’s Wells 2015 season with a brand new work that draws on the anniversary of World War I as inspiration, and displays the company’s c…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:54AMMonday, January 12, 2015
The Jermyn Street Theatre is a hidden gem: just seconds from the big, brash lights of Piccadilly Circus, this neat little venue is tucked between the shops and restaurants of Jermyn Street, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:15PM 
