Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The social importance of eating together is reiterated throughout history and resonates across cultures. Of course, here in Britain, the attention affixed to tea is a clear indication of thi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24AMWednesday, July 6, 2016
Two A Younger Theatre (AYT) writers have been shortlisted for a prestigious critics award. Kate Wyver and Fergus Morgan, both regular AYT contributors, have been nominated for The Stage Crit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:57AMSunday, July 3, 2016
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you’re looking for permane…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:37AMSaturday, July 2, 2016
Richard Twyman has been appointed the new artistic director of English Touring Theatre (ETT). Announced on 22 June, Twyman joins ETT from the Royal Court Theatre, and will take up his new ro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:34PMSunday, June 26, 2016
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you’re looking for permane…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20AMThursday, June 23, 2016
A scheme that supports young directors from under-represented backgrounds has announced the winners of its directing placements in theatres across England. The Regional Theatre Young Directo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:00AMSunday, June 19, 2016
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you’re looking for permane…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:27AMFriday, June 17, 2016
The new editor of AYT is Oxford based journalist and editor, Hannah Marsh. With a wealth of experience in arts feature writing, digital editing on a national newsdesk and strategy work on co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:56AMThursday, June 16, 2016
Christopher Haydon has announced he will be stepping down from the Gate Theatre next year. On 14 June, the Notting Hill theatre revealed that Haydon would leave in January 2017 after a five…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:10AMA theatre that promotes gender equality has set up a series of events profiling the achievements of women in the stage world. Tonic Theatre Celebrates, which begins 22 June at London’s …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you’re looking for permane…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
The award winning British playwright most famous for Equus and Amadeus, has died aged 90. Peter Shaffer, was born in Liverpool in 1926 and died in Ireland on 6 June after a short illness. Ru…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AMMonday, June 6, 2016
Incoming Festival has a fantastic range of workshops for emerging artists that are only £3 to attend in Central London. Hear from renowned theatre critic, Lyn Gardner; learn to wrestle on s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:12AMSunday, June 5, 2016
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you’re looking for permane…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:10AMFriday, June 3, 2016
Russian political activist and member of the infamous punk group Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, is performing her theatre debut with a refugee-led theatre company. Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:52PMFriday, March 4, 2016
One of the largest and longest running theatre education projects is celebrating its tenth birthday. Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank has brought 150,000 school children to Shakespeare…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMThursday, March 3, 2016
One of the England’s biggest music and arts festivals has released its theatre line up. Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Suffolk, has announced that Circa, Blind Summit and Les Enfants Te…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
London’s largest fringe festival will be making its third appearance under Waterloo station this month. VAULT Festival is kicking off from the 27 January to 6 March and the multi-art e…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:33AMThursday, October 29, 2015
Suspense Festival takes place at the Little Angel Theatre, and showcases the best puppetry on offer at the moment. A Younger Theatre sat down with Festival Director, Slavka Jovanović to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Oedipus is a notorious story, and its plotline of incest, patricide, exile and blindness have passed into common knowledge through Freud’s controversial Oedipal complex. It seems odd then,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:13AMSunday, July 26, 2015
“Isn’t she lovely?” is not what you will leave this performance saying. Women’s Hour demolishes any patronising social niceties with flying crumpets, writhing bodies and astute polit…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:46AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Suicide is the most common cause of death in men under fifty. Seventy per cent of doctor’s queues are filled with patients with mental health issues. One in four people will suffer from a …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:21PMThe Latitude audience who caught Kneehigh’s latest show, 946, can feel very lucky. Not only was the Theatre Arena completely packed, this wasn’t even the final production – “This isn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PMMonday, July 13, 2015
In a usually empty corner of Suffolk, an atmosphere of revelry, carnival and wonder will be evoked on a summer’s weekend this month. Celebrating its tenth anniversary is Latitude, a festiv…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:55PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
If you want to tumble down the rabbit hole this August, there would be few more delightfully British ways to do it than with Will Todd’s Alice in Wonderland. The opera will be taking…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24AMThursday, May 28, 2015
Image: Barbican Theatre The largest theatre and live performance festival ever seen in Plymouth has been launched this week. Plymouth Fringe Festival is showcasing over one hundred acts in …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:57PMSunday, March 1, 2015
Image credit: Amit Lennon “It’s designed to open up the theatre and Shakespeare to secondary school children.” This is the bold opening declaration from Georghia Ellinas, Head of Learn…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:45AMMonday, February 23, 2015
Photo by Brinkhoff Mögenburg It is not characteristic of an actor to wish to shun the limelight. Stereotypically acting professionals are renowned for craving their names in lights or stan…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:04AMFriday, February 20, 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s tale of the Jellicle Cats is one that captured imaginations when it nimbly leapt and pranced its way onto the West End in 1981. And to do so, it defied many an obstac…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:58PMFriday, January 23, 2015
London’s biggest festival of new and unusual theatre is returning for its seventeenth year. Camden People’s Theatre (CPT) has announced its Sprint 2015 line up with acts including Drunke…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:44AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Image by Richard Hubert Smith With widely praised performances in several major UK theatres, Alex Waldmann is carving out a name as one of the country’s most exciting acting talents. …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15PM 
