The Merchant of Venice has been a long-serving vessel of discomfort for critics and audiences alike, unsure whether the play fuels anti-Semitic sentiment or provides an on-going platform for…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:26PMPegged as Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! is a neat balance of slapstick gags, drunken mayhem, impromptu verse recitals, and most pertinently, a grand display of ho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00PM‘Drink Me’ or ‘Eat Me’? The answer to that question will determine the route you take through Wonderland; purposefully split off from your party, you could find yo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:00AMAs a celebration of the 125th anniversary of the publication of Oscar Wilde’s most recognisable work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Another Soup has brought its immersive, musical versi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:39AMIt’s 1953; Polish-born Spijak occupies one half of a Savile Row tailor’s workroom, whilst the remaining side is taken up by his bolshie friend, Eric; what they share in passion, the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41PMNews of funding cuts for some of the UK’s most iconic arts institutions last summer, most notably the English National Opera, may have spurred creatives to think more urgently about di…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:11PMIf walking into the Vault Festival four days before its closure was your first entrance to the festival, then I can sympathise with the overwhelming sense of anger. This will subside and sad…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:31PMIt is a grim reality, rarely acknowledged in our everyday lives, that most of us have little idea of where our food comes from. Each time a video surfaces that demonstrates the horrific slau…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:58PMThe current star in the ‘Extreme Love’ series being shown at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is Thomas Middleton’s The Changeling, a Jacobean musing on passion and madness. The Globe’s a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:03AMJuliet Gilkes Romero, well-known for her At The Gates of Gaza, delivers a new drama at the Southwark Playhouse that examines the political trajectory of Britain from the present back to 198…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:47AMIn the playwright’s notes, John Cariani expresses this sentiment under the heading ‘On time’: “The plot of each scene in Almost Maine climaxes with some sort of magical moment”…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:56AMDuring his education at Oxford’s Trinity College in the early 1930s, well-known British dramatist Terence Rattigan, wrote his first completed play with fellow student Philip Heimann. For a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:18PMIt is hard to picture a more perfect stage for Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore than the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, which opened in January this year. The low-lit stage paired wi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:17PMIbsen knew that the truth is a complicated thing. In general, seeking out the truth appears to be a valuable endeavor, but in reality living with the truth may be no good at all. Whether it …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:06PMIn keeping with the Trafalgar Transformed season, captained by Jamie Lloyd, East is East is aimed at appealing to a wide bracket of would-be theatre-goers as well as existing ones. Sam Yates…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:29PMDespite all the best intentions, sometimes a theatre show just does not work. For me, Caldo con Enjundia’s Bar Ensueño is that show. Perhaps my reaction is an anomaly – the audience…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:01PMFounded in 2010, The Print Room theatre used to be at home in an abandoned building in Hereford Road, but after the landlord announced development plans for the site last year, Artistic Dire…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:16PMEvery now and then a performer manages to reset the bar of what can be achieved in theatrical circumstances; Kristin Scott Thomas just broke the bar in her portrayal of a woman drowning in g…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:35AMIt starts with a bang in the darkness, a potentially reckless decision given that 80 percent of the audience was over the age of 60. The loud bang that sped from the slanted stage into the g…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:49PMStill in its infancy, the Park Theatre is proving to be a top player in the London theatre network, and with David Hare’s The Vertical Hour currently taking residence, the future looks…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:16PMI can imagine watching 64 Squares during the later years of high school and being very envious of what I was seeing on stage. Even with two feet firmly placed in my 20s, I am in awe of the a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:08AMAn increasingly common phenomenon is the opportunity to watch a recording of a live show within a cinema. This was my first encounter. Viewing a live performance from the confines of a cinem…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:11AMSince the premiere of Nicholas Hytner’s production in 1985, Xerxes has been enjoying overwhelming critical praise, winning the Oliver award for outstanding new production in 1985. The most…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:23PMThe bleak, concrete setting married with the breathtaking backdrop of London’s bewitching skyline adds a welcome texture to one of Shakespeare’s more bloody works, Titus Andronicus. Peck…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:47AMThe Tea Diaries is an undeniably charming piece of theatre about the unifying power of tea. The playwright, Phoebe McIntosh, ingeniously uses the beverage as a thematic device that helps to …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AMFrom the solar system to a re-imagining of a Tolstoy novella, it seems that no topic is too audacious for the New English Ballet Theatre. Tryst: Devotion and Betrayal is a bold chain of five…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:26AMChristopher Boone is the central figure in 2003’s Whitbread Book of the Year, by Mark Haddon. Boone has proved to be as appealing to the theatre world as he undeniably is to the literature…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:02PM18th-century prostitutes taking part in boxing matches is certainly not your run of the mill theatre. Punching Jane, written by Jessica Farley and Ed Young (Tiny Dog Productions) demonstrat…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:29AMNeil LaBute, perhaps best known for his play-turned-film The Shape of Things, is equally as observant and surprising in his 1999 Bash: Latterday Plays currently showing in Studio 2 at Trafal…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:54AMSean Foley’s Jeeves & Wooster Perfect Nonsense has been recast and, undoubtedly, it will elicit the same enthusiastic responses as the prior team. Previously played by Mathew Macfa…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:15PMRichard Eyre’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata makes a comfortable return to the Royal Opera House for its 20th anniversary. Even for audience members who are fresh to…
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