10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne makes a convincing case that this neglected monarch deserves more attention and that the powerful Duchess of Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, who shared a tumultuou…
"Some stories didn't make it in to the history books" is the tagline for Charing Cross Theatre's newest production and it couldn't be truer. Yank!, directed by James Baker, follows …
In Tom Glover's Wet Bread, Morag Sims gives an incredible performance as the 'every liberal' Adele " a fiercely political individual who is anti-fracking, anti-austerity, anti-capitalism, an…
The Southwark Playhouse has had an excellent, eclectic season so far, with shows ranging from a thrilling production of conjoined twins musical Side Show, the brilliant dive into the 17th-ce…
At the Royal Opera House's Saturday evening performance of Mozart's opera seria, Mitridate, re di Ponto, two parallel tales of young artists who are suddenly thrust into the spotlight collid…
There is a real debate to be had in examining the impact that theatre can have. Can it indeed have a truly revolutionary effect? This play from Neil Weathereall uses the history of Ireland i…
I climb the steps of the Hope Theatre as I read the blurb for Torn Apart. It says the play ‘puts women centre stage and deals with issues such as feminism, immigration, male repression…
Right in the heart of the West End, tucked just between Chinatown and Leicester Square lies the aptly named Leicester Square Theatre. Upon descending a set of stairs, you emerge into what fe…
First things first: vocally and orchestrally, the new production of Otello at the Royal Opera House, starring the legendary Jonas Kaufmann singing the title role at last, comes close to flaw…
How the bloody hell have veganism and cannibalism found themselves in the same piece of theatre? Mumburger's extraordinarily odd subject matter is the very thing many, myself includ…
This July, art-rock band The Neutrinos and visual artist Sal Pittman reform their sell-out, critically acclaimed performance of KlangHaus: On Air from 2016. Born-again as KlangHaus: 800 Brea…
There are many reasons why you laugh at Lily Bevan’s Trump’s Women. First of all, you laugh because it’s truly funny. Written and directed by Bevan, the play takes a look a…
It's not often that we see queer women's stories on stage, rarer still that they feature a lesbian protagonist. That's what was so exciting about Neaptide " it features not one but at …
From Little Bulb Theatre comes Extravaganza Macabre, a mock-Dickensian romp that parodies Victorian melodrama and keeps the audience in fits of giggles from start to finish. Packed with ener…
The English National Opera is on staycation. Abandoning its Coliseum home for the summer (for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell musical) the ENO has moved to the Royal Festival Hall for its perfor…
Trolley Girls, which was cooked up by Jessica Forrest and Olivia Faye of the Sugar Butties Theatre Company, is a cabaret show, so the truly intimate venue that is The Museum of Comedy feels …
Darryl is not John, the drag queen he met in a pub and called a ‘she-bloke’. ‘Not yet’, as he repeatedly tells us. He is an unemployed, ‘plain’ guy in a p…
It's all about the audience in Shakespeare in the Squares' outdoor touring production of Romeo and Juliet. From the opening 1950s Italian musical medley (the cast plays two saxophones, two c…
In my first guest blog, I wrote about the background to The Idle Women: Recreating the Journey " a waterways tour of a show sharing the stories of the wartime women trainees. Young women who…
The steel works meets a football stadium meets Hollywood. A ladder is dropped. Shockingly bright lights up. Welcome to Fatherland. We are unexpectedly dropped into a reconstruction of the cr…
On 27th July 1967, the passing of the Sexual Offences Act – which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales, was passed. Fifty years on and the UK…
When it comes to theatre festivals, summer is definitely the best time of year! All across the UK, you'll find experimental fringe shows, outdoor theatre and, must-see performances across dr…
Annually curating a colourful array of pastel shaded sheep and musical marvels, Latitude Festival is famed for its idiosyncratic aesthetic. With a name that evokes the freedom of thought and…
The 1933 original film King Kong began a phenomenon that has led to the cinematic fascination of giant monster movies. Seven films later, we arrive at the always atmospheric Vaults for this …
Playing on gender, death, myth and science Tiresia is undeniably engaging. An adaptation of the Greek myth of the blind prophet Tiresias who famously became a woman for seven years, this pro…
