Friday, November 27, 2015
Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the makings of some festive fun. Flamboyant dames, an abundance of innuendos and a generous sprinkling of magic have taken over theatres across the country, as we’re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:01PMSunday, November 15, 2015
Last night was the first time I’d seen a play entirely in Russian; it was also my first time seeing Belarus Free Theatre perform. It was not, however, the first time I had heard of the und…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:13PMSunday, October 25, 2015
An abundance of glitter, gyrating and voodoo rituals are all just components of your average night out for Lady Vendredi and her merry band of twisted miscreants The Vendettas. Described as …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:46PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
John Milton’s Paradise Lost is an epic poem comprising of 10,000 lines of verse, so perhaps it wouldn’t be your first choice to adapt into a one-man physical theatre-inspired p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:49PMMonday, October 5, 2015
Many times in my life I have heard the phrase: “the arts have power to transform lives”. When Nancy (Sally Messham) first goes to the Palace Theatre where she claps eyes on Kitty…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:27PMMonday, September 21, 2015
To make the perfect martini you must mix equal parts gin and vermouth, and then serve it in a lightly chilled glass with an olive garnish to finish. Similar levels of perfection were achieve…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:39PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
They say that your school days are some of the best times of your life. What people fail to tell you when glancing back through rose-tinted spectacles is that those days are also overflowing…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AMMonday, September 14, 2015
What do West Side Story, Gypsy and Follies all have in common? They were all penned by musical theatre doyen Stephen Sondheim. Side By Side is a jovial celebration of part of this witty lyri…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:04AMMonday, August 17, 2015
Jacqueline Wilson books were firm favourites of mine as I was growing up, and considering she has penned in excess of 100 children’s books, I’m sure Wilson’s literary creations sit pro…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:58PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
Your stay at the Heartbreak Hotel begins as soon as your arrive at North Greenwich station, where bellhops will instruct you to follow the signposts to the box-office-cum-check-in-desk, so t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:32AMAt just 19 years of age Polly Stenham penned the award-winning gritty family drama That Face, which resulted in her being the toast of the Royal Court. Now, eight years on, Stenham’s lates…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:06AMSaturday, May 30, 2015
This half term the Southbank Centre was bustling with pint-sized pirates ready to join Flinn’s motley crew in Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs. In a story adapted from a popular chil…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:18AMMonday, March 16, 2015
From Sunny Afternoon which tells the story of The Kinks to Jersey Boys which charts the rise of The Four Seasons, jukebox musicals are very a la mode at the moment, so it is not surprising t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:11PMWednesday, March 11, 2015
No Guts, No Heart, No Glory follows six young Muslim girls from Bradford that want to become boxers. Despite some initial resistance and reservation from their families and the wider Islami…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:41PMSunday, March 8, 2015
Crows cawing, angels whizzing around on white scooters and an abundance of dry ice form the cornerstones of Way Station – a waiting room where souls patiently wait in limbo to discover…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:45PMThursday, February 26, 2015
Passion, anguish and enthrallment, are three sentiments that should reverberate from any flamenco performance and thankfully Eva Yerbabuena’s ¡Ay! ticks many of these boxes. Forming part …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:42PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Relying on audience participation to form a key part of your show is a risky business: if you select participants that are reluctant to join in or are just plain non-responsive the entire pe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:04PMSunday, February 8, 2015
Sadler’s Wells has bestowed the accolade of’ “associate artist’ to 16 choreographers, giving this select group of creatives their golden seal of approval. The Associates …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:24PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Beneath Waterloo station, at the end of a graffiti blazon stretch you’ll find the Vault Festival – the epitome of underground theatre. Step inside a cavernous treasure trove of m…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:51AMFriday, January 30, 2015
Hello/Goodbye is a kitchen sink drama: however, exactly who that kitchen sink belongs to is a real bone of contention. Having been forced to make a swift exit from her previous abode, Juliet…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:18PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
“For the people tired of the same money generating schemes on the West End. For the people who crave different kinds of honesty from their theatre. For the people who have never connected …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:29AMMonday, January 19, 2015
The Pleasance Theatre ranks as one of the friendliest fringe venues that I know, a spirit which is echoed in the way in which they programme many of the 400 plus shows that they take up to t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:58AMSunday, January 18, 2015
Much to his parents dismay American-born Dickie Greenleaf, who was supposed to only be in Italy for a few months, keeps extending his stay. Desperate to be reunited with their son, the Green…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:06PMSaturday, December 20, 2014
Christmas for the English National Ballet means a resplendent and joyously festive production of The Nutcracker. Since its inception, the much-loved balletic masterpiece has been a mainstay …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:18AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
The Little Angel Theatre’s latest production is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical poem ‘Jabberwocky’, charmingly retold using playful delivery, an entrancing soundscape…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:06PMSaturday, November 1, 2014
What could be more apt than a production of Sweeney Todd that takes places in a pie shop? In an ingenious collaboration Tooting Arts Club has teamed up with Harrington’s, one of Britain’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49PMFriday, October 31, 2014
In their teens two brothers, Ray and Dave Davies, rallied together two of their childhood friends Pete Quaife and Mike Avroy to form a band. Known then as The Ravens, these four young musici…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:42PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Amy is a hot-headed, feisty and wayward teenager who is failing at school, has fallen out with her lifelong best friend, and to complete her run of bad luck has just been kicked out of her f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:23PMSunday, August 31, 2014
‘It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. Be yourself no matter what they say’, is a lyric from ‘An Englishman in New York’, which Sting penned in homage to the inaugura…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:58AMFriday, August 15, 2014
OperaUpClose really are the Ronseal of opera companies, as they do exactly what it says on the tin. By taking opera, an art form that is more commonly associated with being performed on larg…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:20PMFriday, August 8, 2014
Set in the deep south of Alabama, the year is 1847: it’s a time of masters and slaves, racial inequality is rife and people are bought and sold on the basis of the colour of their skin. De…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:46PM 
