10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Synergy theatre project, along with Theatre503, bring us Homecomings, a festival of new plays by prisoners and ex-prisoners about getting out and going home. The Monkey, John Stanley's first…
Kebab shops, Luton, tampons up clarinets, and gritty sexual misadventures: the four images that fairly sum up Jack Thorne's (Skins, Shameless) Bunny. Winner of 2010 First Fringe Award, Fabri…
After a couple of successful off-broadway runs, Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate has been brought to the West End. Directed by Tom Attenborough, Karam’s play follows three mi…
Central to this twice adapted story of The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a phenomenal performance from Rona Morison, who manages to perfectly capture the irritating whininess of a 15-year-old w…
Bag of Beard Theatre Company present Two Short Stories at the Bread and Roses Theatre. The company comprises of six graduates from Italia Conti drama school, who aim to create innovative and…
The visceral austerity of the English Touring Opera's (ETO) set, with its sharp lines, captures the murky undertones of a Rome in 1800 at the centre of a European power struggle in this prod…
We've all been there. It's coming towards closing time in the pub and you're just not quite ready for the night to end. The pub doors are bolted, the curtains are meticulously closed, for fe…
Created by Marianne Badrichani and The Company, Ionesco/ Dinner at The Smiths' is a pop-up, immersive and bilingual theatrical experience inspired by the comic works of the Romanian-French p…
In Other Words, written by and starring Matthew Seigar, is an emotionally charged insight into the depressing realities of dementia. Directed by Paul Brotherston, the seventy-minute piece ex…
Although they set themselves on a task as brave, and almost as challenging, as that of our exploring protagonist, Marlow, this arresting production Heart of Darkness by Scandal and Gallows T…
With absolutely no set, a solitary prop being a mug of tea, and on the dark stage of the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Stephanie (Elaine Fellows) takes us on a journey known as Decibels. A rathe…
Theresa Rebeck's The Understudy, a masterful piece of contemporary writing, is given its fair dues in Russell Lucas' captivating production. It is slick, clever, and very funny; and a happy …
If you ever thought isolation and addiction were the wrong topics for a comedy then, please, think again. All of Me depicts pain and suffering with high levels of panache, black humour, and …
Sitting above The Bedford Arms in Balham, Theatre N16 is currently home to Tom Stenton's Swifties " a twenty-first century reimagining of Jean Genet's The Maids. Directed by Luke Davies, Swi…
I walk out of Killer with relief, a huge grin, and a lingering chill down my spine. Above all, I want more, and that’s how I know that the play has done its best. Philip Ridley’s…
Robert Icke's Hamlet, at Almeida Theatre, has been eagerly anticipated, particularly since the announcement that Andrew Scott would be playing the lead. Icke's productions of Oresteia and Un…
Arthur Pita, creator of the awarding-winning 2011 adaptation of The Metamorphosis, is back with another stomach-churning production. His new piece, Stepmothers/Stepfathers takes us to the da…
First performed at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill in 2013, George Brant's Grounded returns with its original star Lucy Ellinson for a month-long run as part of the theatre's Resist! season…
Roundelay, a series of vignettes on love and sex in the third age, is a show of many parts. On the one hand, it is tightly spun web of interlinked stories and voices, all essentially asking …
Music has a mesmeric, perhaps demonic, power in Lizzie, the half-musical, half-rock concert at the Greenwich Theatre. Lizzie tells the story of 19th-century alleged axe murderer Lizzie Borde…
Its International Women's Day " and a chance to take a moment to celebrate the diverse achievements of our female peers, reflect on gender inequalities still pervasive throughout our global …
First-time playwright John Stanley's play The Monkey sees him delve through his own experiences of the prison system to paint a darkly comic picture of thieves bound together by addiction. I…
A nifty ornate clock presides over the stage at Princess Suffragette, the new historical play by Subika Anwar-Khan at London's VAULT Festival. Instead of hours, the clock, which cast members…
The British Empire feels like an octopus, its tentacles stretching out across the globe and touching all continents, everything feeding back into the main body at the centre. Porcelain from …
What takes place behind closed doors when two major historical figures meet? Motivating plays like Michael Frayn's celebrated Copenhagen (the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg) as …
