10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Gemma Arrowsmith's comedy sketch show Earthling is a series of sketches which present the best and the worst of humanity to an objective alien observer. Arrowsmith is fixated by the events o…
In Marietta Kirkbride's new play The Long Trick, Tristan lives aboard a boat on the Helford river in Cornwall, and reluctantly robs second homes to support himself and his teenage daughter, …
Get £15 tickets to see The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie by By Tennessee Williams | Until 29 April | Duke of York's Theatre ‘John Tiffany's stunning revival. Remarka…
Get £10 tickets to see Seventeen Seventeen by Matthew Whittet | 04 March " 08 April | Lyric Hammersmith Acclaimed Australian writer Matthew Whittet’s unique play sees a ca…
Won't someone please think of the men? Why one AYT critic took issue with the Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish's plea for women to steer clear of Shakespeare's male roles. Like Dominic Cavendis…
Launching re-vamped venue 'The Other Palace', (formerly The St James Theatre) is an electric staging of Michael John LaChuisa and George C.Wolfe's 'The Wild Party.' Based on the 1928 poem by…
The Girls, a musical comedy based on the original story of the 1998 Calendar Girls has arrived, and with it droves of raucous middle aged women. Achieving not only a standing ovation during …
"If we shadows have offended…" says Puck, closing the two-hour long production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the well-known epilogue. And while Joe-Hill Gibbins’ production p…
The National Theatre's promotional campaign for Simon Godwin's new Twelfth Night has been all Tamsin Greig, all the time. The video trailer and the programme design devote themselves entirel…
If the world as we know it were to end tomorrow, what would you do? Would you smartly ration and scrape by, rarely washing in tattered clothes? Or, given the opportunity, would you carry on …
The topic of gender is never far from our minds. It informs our every interaction with other people, and goes right to the core of our self-perception. Society has made huge strides in recen…
In a simplistic church setting, four chairs and a giant luminous cross at the back, Tristan Bernay's Testament is an "exploration of the dark underside of The Greatest Story Ever Told." Know…
What is The Cherry Orchard? In 1903, Anton Chekhov responded vehemently to Stanislavski's directorial interpretation of the play as a tragedy, asserting that, "what has emerged from me is no…
Set in a swanky London flat where the colour scheme seems to be black and grey with a hint of orange, poor and obscure playwright Geoffrey Tempest sets about rehearsing his play. It turns ou…
As a name, Will Power conjures the image of a 'jack the lad', a confident (perhaps a touch arrogant) young guy with a slight swagger, affable nature, and consistently positive outlook on lif…
Glitter Punch isn't exactly your average teen romance story. It tells the story of boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, but as standard as that may sound it will still leave you saying…
I will start by stating that one woman (or man) plays are one of my all-time favourite genres of theatre. They are often the most intimate or revealing pieces. And if done well can also be s…
The South Afreakins written and performed by Robyn Paterson is, thankfully, not the sort of solo show that makes you shiver and predict the worst. The hour-long set, first performed at the E…
From a typically quizzical perspective, Tom Stoppard’s 1974 play Travesties presents the memories and fantasies of an amnesiac elderly man named Henry Carr. Tom Hollander (The Night Ma…
How (Not) To Live in Suburbia feels both timelessly personal and very much of the current zeitgeist. It follows Annie Siddons, the work's author and main protagonist, on her life as a recent…
You'd think that a highly visual, shocking depiction of 'ultra-violence' would not generate quite as many huge belly laughs as Action To The Word's production of A Clockwork Orange does. The…
Adam Scott-Rowley in is your face right from the start, gyrating and masturbating on a stool. The shock factor here is instant, but quickly subsides as Scott-Rowley rapidly transitions into …
Hip H'Opera is now very much a thing thanks to the team behind Witt 'n Camp. These two staccato, shrill, singing divas appear in masquerade masks and constantly compete for centre stage. At …
To sum this play up in one word is easy: it was dull. Mind-numbingly so. While the writing in Beau Brummell: An Elegant Madness is both clever and funny, and is a credit to playwright Ron Hu…
Uma Thurman's starring role in Kill Bill clearly provides inspiration for the latter part of Nir Paldi's Bucket List " a hit-list for daughter Milagros (Tamsin Clarke) to use when hunting do…
