Monday, 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 02:15PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
The Charles Court Opera company has built a reputation over the last few years for creating one of the funniest pantomimes in London, and their eighth ‘boutique panto’ comes to the Rosem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:29AMSaturday, November 29, 2014
Many of us in the arts will bemoan an unpaid internship with the prospect of a low-paid job at the end of it, if at all. But what’s it like at the other end of the scale, where the stakes …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:40AMSaturday, October 25, 2014
In a small flurry of transatlantic transfers – hot on the heels of Here Lies Love and The Scottsboro Boys – Tony-award winning Memphis the Musical is the latest show to test whether the …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:17AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Of all the weird and wonderful guises under which improv comedy can be presented, a murder mystery sounds like a brilliant idea – we all love a game of Cluedo, and with the unpredictabilit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:22PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Controversial South African director Brett Bailey and his company clash cultures together at the Barbican this month as they present Verdi’s Macbeth, reimagined in the troubled region of E…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:43PMTuesday, September 16, 2014
After the “delightfully dishevelled” and “remarkably raw” The Ugly Sisters in January, RashDash Productions is returning to the Soho Theatre with Oh, I Can’t Be Bothered, an experi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:02AMSaturday, August 30, 2014
Since its opening in May 2013, the Park Theatre has garnered a reputation for high quality, affordable theatre, with new works, rediscovered theatrical gems and a host of big names and emerg…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:51PMFriday, August 1, 2014
It just wouldn’t be summer without an alfresco Shakespearean performance. Settling down for a picnic, a tipple and the words of the Bard has become a staple of the theatrical calendar, and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:22PMMonday, July 28, 2014
Say the name Tony Krushner, and most will think of his award-winning epic, Angels in America. Yet this earlier and lesser-known work demonstrates Krushner’s politically urgent writing appl…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:01AMGulf marks the début performance of new company Pivot Theatre, whose mission is to create theatre that is “urgent and thrilling”, that “subverts expectations and shifts perspectives�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:14AMThursday, July 17, 2014
It’s incredible that this is the first play adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster (discounting Lloyd Webber’s musical By Jeeves) ever to reach the West End. A night at the theatre to watch th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:15AMAs this play and its publicity reminds us, “the truth is rarely pure and never simple” – one of the many literary quips that, it seems, came to haunt Oscar Wilde after his fall from gr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:03AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
The first in Talawa Theatre Company’s annual season dedicated to new writers, actors and directors – Talawa Firsts – Normal packs a lot into its 90 minutes. From suicide to drugs, immi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:23AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
Here Lies Henry boldly, and rather riskily, claims to: “challenge the conventional relationship between actor and audience and spins it completely on its head”. I wouldn’t go that far,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:56AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Lorca’s final work is set against a Spanish heatwave, with Bernarda Alba’s domineering matriarchal regime and the pent-up sexual desire of her daughters reflected in the oppressively ho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:18PMSunday, May 18, 2014
The Merchant of Venice is not only one of Shakespeare’s most popular works, but also one of the most problematic and fiercely-debated by modern audiences. It may have been labelled a comed…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:43PMLast year, Jethro Compton’s critically-acclaimed Bunker Trilogy took us deep into the atmospheric trenches of World War I to experience some classic tales as never before. Now Compton tran…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Suicide attempts may not be the most obvious material for a comedy, but that’s exactly what daring play Way Back explores as it comes to the Brighton Fringe this month – just a few miles…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:47AMThursday, May 1, 2014
What does a present-day drama graduate searching for her first job have in common with an 18th century fictional prostitute? Nothing, you say? Well not according to TheatreState, who sets ou…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:34PMThursday, April 24, 2014
There’s that familiar problem again: how to perform a play that is so well-known that the audience could probably be the prompt? How to “surprise, move and provoke” – as Blue Crate T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:33PMMonday, April 21, 2014
A double bill of new works from Southwark Playhouse Young Company shows a group of young artists with their fingers firmly on the pulse of their generation, whose potential can certainly be …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:05PMSunday, April 13, 2014
Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells as part of 2013’s ‘String of Rites’ series, celebrating the centenary of the premiere of Stravinsky’s original, Michael Keegan-Dolan’s The Rite…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:54AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
There’s a moment in Act One of In This House when, on the witness stand, Vivian Charles succinctly depicts her first sexual encounter with lover Ted: “In the supply cupboard at the offic…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:29AMSunday, April 6, 2014
David Greig’s The Events garnered plenty of attention and acclaim when it premièred in Edinburgh in 2013, winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award. Exploring the aftermath of a mass shooting…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:08PMSaturday, April 5, 2014
As Gounod’s Faust arrives on the Royal Opera House’s main stage, the Linbury Studio Theatre hosts two world premières inspired by the classic tale. The first of these is Through His Tee…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:59PMMonday, July 1, 2013
Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen presents itself as a comedy about a woman tying up the loose ends of her life before her suicide: presumably this clash of subject and tone — and the show�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41AMFriday, May 31, 2013
This production of David Mamet’s Race at Hampstead Theatre marks its UK première, having first appeared on Broadway four years ago. It is unmistakeably American, from its treatment of the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22AMSunday, May 12, 2013
Commissioned by The Ohio State University’s Arts Initiative in 2012, Hamlet’s Fool is both a stand-alone tragedy piece and a reflection on the possible past of Yorick, known to us only a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:33AMSunday, April 14, 2013
Dispel all the stereotypes of stout sopranos warbling and stuffy, incomprehensible librettos: this is opera with its feet planted firmly in 2013. Dutch composer Michel van der Aa and novelis…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:49AMSaturday, March 2, 2013
As Ovalhouse celebrates its fiftieth birthday this year, directors Rebecca Atkinson-Lord and Rachel Briscoe promise a season that is “stealthily meaningful and there will also be funny bit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:59AM 
