10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Arguably one of his most famous tragedies, Macbeth is a crafted tale of a fight for power, regicide, murder and psychosis. Initially performed in 1606, Shakespeare taps into the fears of the…
A moving production of Steven Dietz’s award-winning drama that explores male friendship in the gay community during the tragic AIDS pandemic of the 1980s. On arrival at the Tabard Thea…
Reviving their 1998 performance of Dirty Work for the present-day, once again, experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment detonate theatrical convention and explore the bewildering wo…
Eleanora Fagan was just 44 when she died. Born in 1915, she was the great grandchild of a slave. Her mother had her when she just was a teenager and her father abandoned them both. She was r…
Written by Julian Fellowes, this is an adaptation of Kenneth Graeme’s children’s classic, with Ratty (Simon Lipkin) and Mole (Craig Mather) messing about on the river, avoiding t…
The much awaited Bat out of Hell finally graces us with its presence at the Coliseum in London- a chance for Meatloaf and musical theatre lovers alike to come together to experience a specta…
Mighty Atoms could very well be a metaphor for Hull itself. The play, the final part in a trilogy held at Hull Truck as part of its Roots and Routes season, is heavily influen…
I recently dreamt that I was being interviewed about my work as a composer of contemporary opera. Nothing unusual, only that this time I was asked a single question over and over again: What…
From the Obie Award winning playwright of An Octaroon, this month Branden Jacobs Jenkins' Gloria arrives at the stage of the Hampstead Theatre. The play became a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for …
Terror is undeniably relevant. The recent attacks in Manchester and London mean that the word is all too ready at hand, a default thought, society's daily fear. Therefore, this international…
It’s Shakespeare, Jim, but not as we know it. Creation Theatre's debut London show is an 'immersive' version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Having been told to go to the steps of …
What walks like Shakespeare, talks like Shakespeare, but isn't Shakespeare? It's tough to keep an audience in suspense at a Romeo and Juliet or a Hamlet production these days " those tragic …
Get ready, this is about to get emotional. An adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's bestseller, The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, who begins this story a child in an affluent Kabul suburb a…
Rose Matafeo is far from dead. Bursting out of a coffin singing "It's my funereeaal", Matafeo's frenetic performance starts as it means to go on, without a corpse in sight. Auckland-born Mat…
David Furlong directs The/Le Misanthrope, a modern re-imagining of the 1666 Molière classic that will be performed alternately in English and the original French over the coming four weeks.…
Billed as a Brexit-inspired tale, The English Heart seems to focus more on the obsessive power of sex than the political chaos of the last year. Yes, the characters speak about Brexit and fr…
After winning three awards at the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2016, Groomed takes to the stage of the Soho Theatre as part of their Spring/ Summer season. Written and performed by theatre di…
Based on Alexandre Dumas fils' 19th Century novel La Dame aux caméllias, Verdi's beloved opera has returned to the Royal Opera House once again. Richard Eyre's revered production is back, a…
Being a Dance Performer seems to be a rather simple role. That is until you have had a true experience of working in a professional setting like the one created in the Trinity Laban MA Dance…
Win 1 of 10 pairs of tickets to watch FOMO at the National Theatre – part of the Connections Festival FOMO | 28 June to 3 July | National Theatre The National Theatre f…
“At least I'm not coloured!”. This was my first experience of racism when I was six years old, growing up in Bradford. I was arguing with a friend on my street. I struggled to un…
Alice Birch writes likes she's composing. Her scripts are scattered with full stops for pauses and even lines in square brackets to indicate the unspoken thought processes of her characters.…
Set in the aftermath of the Russian revolution, the chaos in which the Kolomiitsev family finds itself, in public as well as behind closed doors, inevitably comes to a head. The Last Ones, b…
This is Heartbreak Hotel filled with 'The Unloved' in hoodies. This channels Monty Python, but without making fun of the French. This is a fusion of Renaissance instrumentation with soaring …
If you want to enjoy yourself from sitting in the audience as much as the actors do in the space, Barber Shop Chronicles is the show for you. If you are wanting to witness incredibly talente…
