10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Maybe it's something in the water, but whichever side of the Atlantic you happen to be on, you can currently catch a new piece of theatre that dives behind the scenes of the legendary cosmet…
'It will be 3 hours and 20 minutes with one interval and a short pause' the staff member warns me as I receive my copy of Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman. It is thicker than the notebook I br…
This adaptation by Bruce Norris of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is political satire at it’s absolute best. The piece takes place in Chicago, 1941, and the ba…
"Just keep me safe. Don't let me do anything stupid, and don't tell me anything that I already know. Do we have a deal?" After a ten-year absence from the stage, choreographer, filmmaker and…
All Our Children, written by Stephen Unwin, is set in Germany, 1941. A clinic for ill children is “helping” the country by treating them, or so the public are led to believe. The…
Very rarely does a play give me an increasingly uncomfortable feeling, a growing unrest. Most productions give some signals that allow me to predict their trajectory, preparing me for shock,…
Musicals often go through many different reincarnations, even after they've made it big. Think of Candide or Cabaret or Merrily We Roll Along, shows that each received a full script overhaul…
When my little brother Maarten converted to Islam, it came as a shock to my family and me. He was very passionate about his newfound faith, and determined to follow the rules of the Quran to…
Win two tickets to see Guards at the Taj at the Bush Theatre. Guards at the Taj | Until 20 May | Bush Theatre Jamie Lloyd directs the European premiere of this darkly funny play by…
Dave, a lonely actor cut from the original London production of Cats and now trapped in an endless monologue recounting that theatrical tragedy, would like to tell us about his unfunny upbri…
Resurrection scenes abound in the theatre of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the era we usually think of as Shakespearean. Think of Hermione's statue coming to life in The …
A black cloth, torn and irregular, is suspended over the stage of Shakespeare's Globe " reminiscent of a foreboding spider's web. From the very beginning, this ominous material hangs over th…
Martin Crimp's The Treatment is so current that I struggle to believe it was written over twenty years ago. Set in New York, we follow the lives of individuals in a small group, who come tog…
For the blind, there is no need to have colour in the world. Thom Southerland's production of The Braille Legacy is devoid of such frivolities " a black and white revolving set by Tim Shorta…
Adapted for stage by Duncan Macmillan (1984, People, Places and Things), Paul Auster's 1985 novel, City of Glass takes to the stage at Lyric Hammersmith. The book is the first part of The Ne…
Omnipresent in London this season, Ivo van Hove has emerged as one of contemporary western theatre's most divisive figures. I found his recent Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre lazy and i…
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is all over the place this year. The glorious production starring Tamsin Greig at the National Theatre closes in mid-May, only days before Emma Rice's interpretat…
Winter 1991, London: “Cardboard Cities” containing communities of up to 250 people living in temporary structures scatter across the city – including the very spot where th…
In Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist, quiet, anagram-loving philology professor Phillip invites other academics to a party in his Oxbridge college-style home. A series of arguments an…
I can pinpoint the precise moment that the Rose Theatre's new musical Junkyard comes to life. Halfway through the first act, idealistic teacher Rick (Calum Callaghan) has finally convinced a…
Moonchild Theatre’s new piece, written by is filled with intelligence and wit. Pluto, our protagonist and personification of the planet (if we can call it that), poignantly communicate…
Tokyo, Rome, Paris, London. Sarah Tullamore sure gets around. After 22 years of living in Paris, she has decided to up sticks again to who knows where. She's a ‘Woman of A Certain Age&…
Katie Bonna is in desperate want of being asked to do a TED talk. Katie knows every aspect of what is needed for the criteria of presenting one. Katie opens the show as one incredibly irrita…
The stage is dark for several minutes. Almost unrecognisably, light begins to seep into the performance space, gradually revealing the cast of the National Youth Dance Company submerged unde…
Produced by Ferodo Bridges, The Macbeths is a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. Founded in 2012, the company is an international platform for London-based artists, an…
