10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
What do you do when you're a ghost doomed to roam the moody corners of Duncan Sheik's new musical Whisper House for all eternity? You can blow out candles and knock papers out of people's ha…
The late Edward Albee is in vogue in the UK right now. Ian Rickson's production of the US playwright's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? starring Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo is entertaining au…
February 2016. I had completed an MFA in creative writing. My efforts at reworking a play didn't seem to be making much progress and The Royal Court hadn't called… So, I decided that I sho…
Get £15 tickets to OUT OF THIS WORLD at the Peacock Theatre. OUT OF THIS WORLD | Peacock Theatre | 1 – 3 May Enter into a visually spectacular world as stunning special ef…
Anyone who remotely sees themselves as a Disney fan will sing-scream at the top of their lungs when hearing that famous opening “let’s get down to business”. Mulan is such …
Threads, written by David Lane, imagines a world in where 'there are these invisible threads stretching between lovers and husbands and wives and couples'. The two-hander is the story of wha…
I had the fairly disorientating experience of seeing two performances back to back half an hour apart in the Leicester Square Theatre on Friday night: Shit-faced Shakespeare: Much Ado About …
Everything Jamie Lloyd touches seems to turn to gold, the current Midas of the directing world. A long-standing partnership with designer Soutra Gilmour is certainly one of the reasons that …
Co-created by choreographer Crystal Pite, her company Kidd Pivot, and actor-playwright Jonathon Young of Electric Company Theatre, Betroffenheit returns to Sadlers Wells following its UK pre…
A very jovial Jae Alexander raises his conducting baton, and everybody is buzzing for the show to begin. As the cheerful overture comes to an end, the curtain raises a fraction to reveal a c…
What do you get when you mix classic British humour with hanging people for a living? Well, Executioner Number One, of course. The piece, written and performed by Toby Whithouse combines the…
On the one hand, the pundits and prognosticators who decried the star casting of Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins in the English National Opera's new production of Carousel were right: Boe an…
AYT's Rachel Kevern speaks to Piers Black-Hawkins, co-founder of award-winning Ransack Theatre, about how the company have maintained the unique allure of theatre throughout their work, and …
A platform for the prominence of female characters, playwrights and issues, Women Redressed is an intriguing feminist theatre festival produced by Sheer Height Theatre. In its fourth instalm…
If It's Not Yet Midnight comes across as a complete mess, may there be more chaos in the world. This is a show that may look slapdash, messy and at times dangerously close to falling apart, …
How many of us can look back at a specific night in our lives and recognise that it has changed who we are forever? Bill Rosenfield can, and 46 Beacon is a semi-autobiographical account of a…
Nina Raine, writer of well received Tiger Country and Olivier-nominated Tribes, is back with a fiercely witty new play that brings the politics of the courtroom into everyday life. Consent f…
Run by the 2faced Dance Company is, in fact, a collection of three different pieces: all emotive, potent and wholly individual. The opening piece, which is also the longest, is entitled 'Fro…
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink," begins young Cassandra Mortmain in Dodie Smith's much-beloved novel I Capture the Castle. Composer Steven Edis and librettist Teresa Howard, in th…
Modern drama, for me, often evokes the same reaction as modern art does. I consume it, I often enjoy it, but I also am left wondering 'why?'. Why would someone make something like that? Or, …
Boat devised and created by Company Three, is inspired by news stories across Europe in the face of the migrant crisis. The ensemble use their own stories and understandings of their familie…
We're all presented with a blank canvas in our life, a blank sheet to create our own story, with the opportunity to build and form our life narrative. Dark Corners presents the story of 13-y…
'Freedom, courage, and persistence': central to the American Civil Rights Movement of the '60s, these currents also coursed strongly through the new arrival of It is So Ordered at the Pleasa…
In a clinical kingdom on dark grey and blues, King Leontes reveals his suspicions of his Queen's fidelity with his brother; which in true Shakespearean fashion means one misunderstanding has…
After a heatwave of Nordic Noir over the past few years, it makes my Danish heart flutter that the Print Room has decided to celebrate Karen Blixen, one of our greatest storytellers and an a…
