10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
“It's just a bit of fun” – a phrase that almost always justifies and precedes a bad idea, a phrase that Larry Lamb (Richard Coyle) exclaims in numerous ways, on various occ…
'(Don't) Objectify Me!' Â For the Come As You Are festival at the Camden People's Theatre, Camilla Harding and Alexandra Sinclair rework and perform their self-written piece Man Up! The de…
The room is soaked in a cold, blue hue. A young woman cradles a bouquet as she drops to her knees. Like a lonely child lining up her toys, she begins to lower each rose to the ground. A part…
The Young Vic's new production of Arthur Kopit's Wings, the first one to take place in London for 30 years, is a perfectly-pitched production in which Juliet Stevenson's performance as Emily…
A revolutionary icon in New York street art, American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat grew into a startling young powerhouse in the world of enigmatic neo-expressionism. Graffiti artist, painter…
Who can resist a bit of drag? Fun, flirty and full of classic musical hits, Drag Me to Love is a short but sweet production recounting star and writer Cameron Sharp's personal journey to dra…
Britain has a huge debt problem. As of May 2017, the average UK household debt was £56,731, and this is only going up. 14 properties are repossessed each day. The picture painted for the …
Calling all dance aficionados and lovers of the weird and wonderful, you may be eligible for membership to the ever exclusive DeadClub. Being performed at The Place, you would be forgiven fo…
You'd be forgiven for thinking that a 3-hour play about creation of The Oslo Accords might not be the most exciting. However, JT Rogers' 'intellectual thriller', currently on at the National…
White guilt. That's the shame at the core of the Salvation: Shamanic Striptease. In just under an hour White African performance artist Daniel P. Cunningham seeks to confront his past with h…
Devised by its cast, And The Rest Of Me Floats brings us into the very personal worlds of the actors and their individual, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, journeys of becoming who they ar…
All eyes are on Emma Rice, the Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe, who is stepping down in the new year, and the new play under her management, Boudica, is nothing short of pure braver…
The March on Russia is the story of an old couple and their three middle-aged children on their 60th Wedding Anniversary. Set in the playwright's (David Storey) hometown in Yorkshire, a defi…
Following The Collector and Echoes, Angel is the third play in the Arabian Nightmares series written by playwright Henry Naylor. Directed by Michael Cabot, the one-woman production premieres…
Long before the days of Google maps and Satnavs, decades before Uber was even a twinkle in CEO Travis Kalanick's eye, and before we had access to the entire world via an oblong in our pocket…
'I think you've got problems', Lola the maid says in this play. It is something of an understatement. The third collaboration between writer Howard Brenton, director Tom Littler and August S…
There was a moment, during the interval of Thebes Land, in which Alex Austin, shooting hoops alone in the cage surrounded by the audience, missed the basket making the ball instead slam down…
'Restoration for the new generation' " a bold claim, but I think Marooned Theatre's production of The Provoked Wife pulls it off. It is the second of John Vanbrugh's comedies, after The Rela…
It is hard, almost impossible to review Ishq as a piece of theatre independent of the context from which is has come. Ishq is the first ever Sufi Anglo-Punjabi musical, and promises a fusion…
The allure of redefining myth never fails to entice. It's a rite of passage for many theatre companies, and with Medusa the experimental and immersive 27 degrees try their hand at teaching t…
The story of kids bunking off school in search of grand adventure is a common plot device visible in films such as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and the fantasies of many teenagers. Alex Gw…
A beautifully, yet anguished metaphor of gossip being like a pillow being slashed open and feathers scattered all over the city perfectly describes the damages of which Doubt, A Parable demo…
Toby Ealden, artistic director of Zest Theatre and director of What Once Was Ours, is talking to me in a room with a high ceiling and a squiggly chandelier which reminds me of a child's draw…
Britney Jean Spears. She's the pop princess that the '00s generation grew up with long before the emergence of Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande. She's one of those artists th…
For the first time, Stephen Sondheim's legendary musical Follies is being staged at the National Theatre. Created by Sondheim and bookwriter James Goldman, Follies premiered in 1971 and is n…
