Wednesday, March 17, 2021
By Manuel Muñoz. Manuel Muñoz reflects on Virginia Grise’s adaptation of Their Dogs Came with Them, which took place in fall 2019 under the colossal concrete freeway ramps of the I-1
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00AMMonday, July 8, 2019
Review: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, Ambassadors Theatre4.0stars‘My father got the dog drunk on cherry brandy at the party last night. If the RSPCA hear about it he could ge…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:32PMThursday, February 7, 2019
Review: Welcome to the UK, Bunker Theatre 3.0Overall Score There’s a significant difference between a show that talks about refugees, and a show on this topic whose actors actually are ref…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:32AMThursday, November 29, 2018
London-based actor Constance Wookey brings to The Bunker her one-woman show Connie Wookey: Denied Under Section 221(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a compelling autobiographical t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06AMSaturday, November 24, 2018
I’m sure many of you have worked Front of House at a theatre. Apart from the performers, we are the most visible, prominent faces and the ones who deal with audiences directly. Most of the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:32AMMonday, October 15, 2018
It is only fitting that a play about the voyage of Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle is staged at the Natural History Museum. The trip that changed the fate of biology as we know it start…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:48AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
There are some episodes in history that are morbidly fascinating. The story of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary (1858-1889) and his life of excess, frustration, sex and death is one of…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:12PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Nico Muhly is back at the Coliseum with the world premiere of a new opera, following 2011’s Two Boys. Based on Winston Graham’s novel – and dramatised by Hitchcock in the 1964 thriller…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AMThursday, November 16, 2017
Agatha Christie’s presence in London’s theatrical scene is, even today, taken for granted. With The Mousetrap still being played after 65 years, whodunits are still a cult favourite. In …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:36PMThursday, April 6, 2017
Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, George Balanchine’s Jewels comes back to the stage giving plenty of opportunities for the whole company to show their skills off. This collection of t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AMThursday, March 30, 2017
In May 2014, Elliot Rodger killed several people at a university campus before shooting himself. In what were subsequently known as the Isla Vista killings, six people were killed and fourte…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Madama Butterfly is one of the most performed operas ever, as it has en enduring appeal due of its themes of love, loss, dignity and deceit. Reaching new heights of realistic exoticism, Pucc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:48AMThursday, March 23, 2017
After his successes as a choreographer for The Royal Ballet – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Winter’s Tale – Christopher Wheeldon is now bringing his first Broadway adventure …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:03AMThursday, March 16, 2017
Kasper Holten’s latest production for the Royal Opera House – and his last as Director of Opera – is also, arguably, one of his best. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, one of Wagner’s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:42PMThursday, December 29, 2016
Like a male Shakespearean lead, Hedda Gabler is one of those characters actors use to prove themselves. Nothing wrong with that, as it’s allowed us to see many great actors give stellar pe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:33PMMonday, December 26, 2016
We don’t often see nonagenarians as characters in a play – unless they’re Charlie Bucket’s grandparents in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, bed-ridden and witty. They rather unfort…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54PMThursday, July 21, 2016
From the creators of LIMBO – seen last year at Wonderground’s Spiegeltent – and some of the minds behind Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour, Blanc de Blanc arrives at the atmospheric Hippodr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:52PMSunday, May 29, 2016
R L Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of those tales that has become part of our culture and imagination ever since it was published in 1886. This dark tale of s…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:21AMSaturday, April 30, 2016
With the 400th anniversary commemorations of Shakespeare’s death in full swing, it is hardly surprising that there are a number of productions coming up that have the Bard at its core. Ton…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:13PMFriday, April 29, 2016
Gilbert and Sullivan’s light operas have such an enduring appeal that they have been produced in many different ways throughout the years. From modern day adaptations to school productions…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:08PMSaturday, April 23, 2016
There was an exciting vibe yesterday at the Park Theatre before the first performance of this world premiere, and it is safe to say it was enthusiastically received. Maya Sondhi’s new play…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:49AMThursday, April 7, 2016
This is not your typical comedy. Not only because a puppet is the main character – which is hardly a new thing after Avenue Q or even War Horse – but because of its frenzied tone and sup…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:45PMSaturday, March 12, 2016
Saying that Motown Records is a cultural icon that shaped music and changed it forever is something of an obvious statement. It is probably the label with more classics in its catalogue than…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:52AMSaturday, March 5, 2016
It has been 29 years since Akhnaten was revived at the Coliseum after its UK premiere in 1985. Widely considered one of Philip Glass’s finest works, and also the last of his trio of operas…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:27PMSecret Opera presents this production of G. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly as part of The Gender Project, which intends to approach opera from a LGBT point of view and with an open mind about …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
Secret Opera, created in 2014 as part of The New London Opera Players, is presenting (as part of The Gender Project) a number of opera productions approached from a LGBT point of view, parti…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:17PMSaturday, December 26, 2015
When first published in 1782, Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses delighted, shocked and outraged its readers with its naked exposing of morally questionable behaviour from its …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:40AMSunday, December 20, 2015
As much as Manon was a leitmotif last year at the Royal Opera House – with a ballet and two operas on the ill-fated beauty – this year it is Eugene Onegin that is receiving the full ball…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:37PMFriday, December 11, 2015
Not too long ago, a comedy opened at the Duchess Theatre, and at that moment not many could have predicted that it would become a huge success (Olivier award for Best New Comedy included). …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:52AMThursday, December 10, 2015
The proliferation of Nutcrackers in London is a clear indication that we are approaching Christmas. Together with pantos, Christmas musicals and choral realness, this festive landscape can b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:25PMSunday, November 22, 2015
The final instalment in Shakespeare’s tetralogy of English kings, Henry V arrives at the Barbican just in time for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, which saw the young kin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:51AM 
