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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Review: Gobsmacked, Udderbelly Festival by Tal Fox

Gobsmacked! is the latest show from the producers of The Magnets and Soweto Gospel Choir – and if Pitch Perfect didn’t turn you into an a cappella fan, this show will. The seven perf…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:16PM
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Review: The Donkey Show, Proud Cabaret by Tal Fox

Maybe it was that old disco classic blasting over the speakers, the glitter that had just been applied to either side of my eyes or the dance floor that transported us back to a seventies ni…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:40AM

Review: Karagula, The Styx by Tal Fox

How to explain Karagula… Well, it starts with two teenagers who look like they could have been extras in Grease. Except this isn’t 1950s America, it’s some bizarre, dystopi…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:38AM
Sunday, June 12, 2016

13 children's books you can see on stage this summer by Tal Fox

Your favourite characters are leaping out of the page and onto the stage. Find out where you can watch the creations of authors from Roald Dahl to Michael Morpurgo to David Almond come to li…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:56AM
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Review: The New York-London Rendezvous, Canal Cafe Theatre by Tal Fox

So, this is what the programme says this show is about: “Every year two friends meet on the same day in their two favourite cities to catch up and go over old times. One year it’…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:30PM
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Review: Persuasion, Rosemary Brance Theatre by Tal Fox

In a world where a 27 year old unmarried woman is cause for concern, Anne Elliott (Rose McPhilemy) has no romantic prospects on the horizon. Eight years earlier Anne was persuaded to break o…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:37AM
Friday, May 6, 2016

Review: Into The Hoods: Remixed, Peacock Theatre by Tal Fox

If the name doesn’t give it away, Into The Hoods: Remixed is based on Sondheim’s musical Into The Woods. Many people know the plot of the original show from the 2014 film, so her…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:34PM
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Review: How the Other Half Loves, Theatre Royal Haymarket by Tal Fox

The revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy is just what the West End needs. This is a genuinely hilarious comedy that doesn’t resort to cheap laughs. The set is delightfully bizarre …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33PM
Monday, March 21, 2016

Review: The Painkiller, The Garrick by Tal Fox

Farce can usually quite hit and miss depending on who you are. Perhaps unsurprisingly, despite what could be classed as ‘easy laughs,’ Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon give fantast…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:46PM
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Review: Eggs, VAULT Festival by Tal Fox

Eggs is a new work from the writer and actor of VAULT Festival 2015’s sold-out, critically-acclaimed show, Love To Love To Love You. The play was chosen by Nick Hern Books to be publi…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:58PM
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Review: Valiant, JW3 by Tal Fox

We hear the words, ‘never again’ many times and yet we still live in an age where war is constantly looming over us. Valiant, based on the book Valiant Women in War and Exile by …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:51PM
Friday, February 12, 2016

Review: The End of Longing, Playhouse Theatre by Tal Fox

The End of Longing is so much more than play for Friends fans to go and gush over Matthew Perry. In fact this brilliantly written and oh-so-witty play makes you wonder how Perry’s skil…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:50AM
Monday, February 8, 2016

Review: All Genius All Idiot, Jackson’s Lane by Tal Fox

I’m not too sure what I was watching in All Genius All Idiot, and yet it seems to do exactly what it says it does. Four bizarrely dressed men, behaving in the most peculiar way throwin…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:46PM
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Review: Guys and Dolls, Savoy Theatre by Tal Fox

Let the Savoy Theatre whisk you away from your January blues to old Broadway where the ‘sinners’ come out at night. After a successful run at the Chichester Festival, Guys and Dolls retu…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:51PM
Saturday, January 9, 2016

Review: Dinosaur Park, St. James Theatre by Tal Fox

It’s a year on since Madeline died, so her children Jade (Maria Askew) and Noah (Simon Maeder) and their dad Terry (Frode GjerlØw) hold a memorial showing a family favourite, Jurassic Par…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:33AM
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Review: Goodnight Mr Tom, Duke of York’s Theatre by Tal Fox

Britain is on the brink of war and the city children have been evacuated to the countryside. William Beech (Alex Taylor-McDowall) is sent to live with Tom Oakley (David Troughton), a reclusi…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:43PM
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Review: Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Trafalgar Studios by Tal Fox

Di (Kate Maravan) confronts her husband David (Jonathan McGuinness) with their teenaged son Jack’s bloody shirt. From this point a series of events unravel before them, making them questio…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:02AM
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Review: The Devil Is An Ass, Rose Playhouse by Tal Fox

 Even as an English Literature graduate I sometimes find it hard to keep on top of marvellous performance or a combination of the two, The Devil Is An Ass at The Rose Playhouse has a deligh…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:56PM
Friday, October 2, 2015

Review: Pure Imagination, St James Theatre by Tal Fox

Leslie Bricusse is one of the big names in both stage and screen. Some may recognise Charlie and the Chocolate Factory classics such as ‘Pure Imagination’ or ‘The Candy Man…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AM
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Review: Only Forever, The Hope Theatre by Tal Fox

“How far would you go to protect your family?” During the war, George (Edward Pinner) and Margaret (Christine Rose) decide to live in their bunker and attempt to lead a normal li…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:42PM
Monday, August 31, 2015

Review: You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews, St James Theatre by Tal Fox

The phrase ‘You won’t succeed on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews’, initially coined by Eric Idle in his Monty Python musical Spamalot remains evermore relevant and we can be grat…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:51PM
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Review: Ladylogue, Tristan Bates by Tal Fox

Ladylogue contains six short plays all written and performed by women. Each play differs entirely in content but this works well as it is impossible to get bored when everyone fifteen or twe…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:15PM
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Review: Stories About My Weird Friends, Etcetera Theatre by Tal Fox

Who can honestly say that they don’t have weird friends, or at least that one weird friend? And who can honestly say that they could live without these friends to share in the jokes, the g…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24AM
Friday, August 14, 2015

Review: McEwan’s Women, Etcetera Theatre by Tal Fox

“Imagining what it’s like to be someone else is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality,”said Ian McEwan, author to the many …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33PM

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream in New Orleans, Arts Theatre by Tal Fox

 The great thing about Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is that you can lift the plot out of its setting and place it at any time and in any place and it will still make sense. T…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33PM

Review: King Chaos, Tristan Bates Theatre by Tal Fox

King Chaos is a sci-fi Comedy about morality, destruction and power. Two agents from ‘The Federation’, a resistance movement against the King’s ‘Syndicate’ movement, are on a missi…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:28PM
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Review: Pull Your Socks Up Britain!, Canal Cafe Theatre by Tal Fox

 “Just leave it all to me. I’m going to sort EVERYTHING out. Sort out this nation like an unruly sock drawer at half-term…”  Lotta Quizeen is here to save the UK from natio…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:32PM
Friday, August 7, 2015

Review: Personals, Landor Theatre by Tal Fox

Before there was Friends, the genius minds behind the popular sit-com collaborated with Wicked’s Stephen Schwartz to create Personals, the musical. Personals is a fantastic comedy about al…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:51PM
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Review: Alba, Ovalhouse by Tal Fox

The programme says that “Alba is a performance about paleness, blending in and standing out, influenced by the artist’s experience as a person with albinism”. If that is th…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PM

Review: Lovett + Todd, King’s Head Theatre by Tal Fox

Forget everything you know about Sweeney Todd, because Another Soup has completely reimagined the story in its musical return to the King’s Head Theatre with Lovett + Todd. This re-tell…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:46AM
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Review: Sinatra, The Man and his Music, London Palladium by Tal Fox

65 years after Ol’ Blue Eyes himself graced the London Palladium with his presence for the first time, his daughter Nancy Sinatra followed in her father’s footsteps to address the audien…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:21PM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards