Monday, June 27, 2016
With the floods and pending EU doom lurking in the air, there is nothing like a show at Southbank’s London Wonderground to keep your mind off things. If you have ever seen a show at Wonder…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:13PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
When I see ‘one man show’ in the description for a production, it is usually enough to put me off, but when I saw ‘choose your own adventure’ before those words, …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:31PMSunday, January 31, 2016
One of the hardest things to do as a reviewer is going into a show when it has so much praise already. You only have to google Iphigenia In Splott to be in a sea of five star reviews. But do…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:03PMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Slava’s Snowshow has become a Christmas staple on the South Bank. Now returning for its fifth year, Slava Polunin’s not-so-conventional Christmas tale is meant for fun for all the family…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:38PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Briefs are definitely not newbies when it comes to London’s Southbank. Back for their fourth year, they plan to unleash their mayhem once more. But what can we expect on their return? If …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:10PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
Klippies tells the story of two teenage girls, Thandi (Adelayo Adedayo) and Yolandi (Samantha Colley), as they strike up an unlikely friendship during a drought-stricken summer in South Afri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:01PMSaturday, February 28, 2015
Loserville follows the story of Michael Dork (Luke Newton) and his friends who are about to change the world… but nobody knows it yet. Michael is on the brink of something that could chang…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:05PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
When you hear the word ‘Frankenstein’, you never think of the man that actually brought the story (and the infamous monster) to life – but Gods and Monsters, the story about Ja…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:56PMMonday, December 1, 2014
Have you ever wanted to see It’s A Wonderful Life, but with a better dressed and boldly beautiful character? Then Times Square Angel just might be what you are looking for. The story follo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:58PMFriday, October 3, 2014
Southwark Playhouse is known for taking a little bit of a risk in its shows, and Next Fall starts with a bang…quite literally. The show follows the relationship of Adam (Charlie Condou) a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:42AMMonday, September 29, 2014
There is one thing to remember about Robert Llewellyn’s Electric Cars Are Rubbish. Aren’t They? – and that is the distinct use of punctuation. He states that when his show first began,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:27PMThursday, September 4, 2014
London Wonderground’s residency is almost at a close. But to say they have left the best show for last might be a bit of an understatement. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the self professed �…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:20PMFriday, August 15, 2014
Based on the movie of the same name, Dogfight follows the story of self-proclaimed ‘jarhead’ Eddie Birdlace (Jamie Muscato) and his marine buddies as they set out to find the mos…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:55PMSunday, August 10, 2014
If you have been past South Bank recently, you would have seen the spectacular offerings of a fairground experience, complete with a rotating bar. But always go deeper into a fairground, bec…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:38AMThursday, July 17, 2014
If you were on London’s famous South Bank this July, you might have spotted these wonderfully mysterious women roaming around, red briefcases in hand and wearing black trench coats. Well y…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:41AMMonday, July 14, 2014
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has always been the go-to play to always get the world talking – and Yaël Farber’s revival is no different. Despite its seventeenth-century storyline,…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:13AMMonday, May 19, 2014
Limbo returns for its second season at London Wonderground. For you out-of-towners, Wonderground is a celebration of all things curious and full of wonders, so you just know its headlining s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:35PMMonday, March 3, 2014
If there is one thing that will put you off of a show before going in, it will be the fact that it is running late. But for the production of Out Of Print I can definitely excuse it; because…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30AMWednesday, February 26, 2014
Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Hairspray… These are just three of the films that have sky-rocketed John Travolta into the spotlight over the last few years – and boy, what a great …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:48PMFriday, February 21, 2014
There are some things that you just have to attend at least once in your life – and one of them is the opera. Turandot (or, as a lot of people kept saying to me, “the ‘Nessun Dorma…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:17PMMonday, October 14, 2013
If there is one thing you have to know about Henry the Fifth it is that many versions have been told, and that you should give this Unicorn Theatre production some artistic licence because�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:21AMSaturday, October 5, 2013
A musical from the 1930s? Yes, you know what that means…I am back at the Union Theatre, and I think we can all safely say that this theatre is the only place with the balls to put on exc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:29AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
I am going to have to give you a bit of a history lesson before I get into this review. Storm In A Flower Vase, based on the novel The Surprising Life Of Constance Spry by Sue Sheppard, is t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:22AMSunday, September 29, 2013
If there is one thing that you need to know about Jekyll and Hyde it’s that there have been many adaptations of this story. Everything from musicals to a modern day “plastic surgeon�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:50AMSaturday, September 28, 2013
On paper, Much Ado About Nothing should be a slick and inspiring affair, filled with great award winning actors and those great theatrical moments that everybody loves Shakespeare for…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Canada Water Culture Space has been open for a while now, but the billing of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf has probably been the most well-known �…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:17AMMonday, September 9, 2013
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever is probably not the first thing that pops to mind when you think of Broadway musicals, but this musical, originally by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane, is …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:02AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
There is no doubt that the National Theatre is bringing fresh ideas to its quite traditional line up, and The Hush certainly proves that. But does different equal interesting? Not quite. As …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:28AMThursday, July 11, 2013
When it was performed as part of NT Connections back in 2012, The Grandfathers proved to be the break-out performance of the event, with even Artistic Director of the National Theatre Sir Ni…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:03AMSunday, July 7, 2013
It is very unusual to find a play that actually does what it says on the tin, and Joel Horwood’s Short and Stark does exactly that. Following four stories, we see short bursts of these cha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:43PMThursday, June 20, 2013
If you do not know who Patti LuPone is, it is quite possible that you have been living on a different planet for the past 30 years. Broadway and West End star LuPone originated some of the g…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06AM 
