10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Filled with glorious decay, dark humour, and moments of edge of your seat intensity, Fishamble's Underneath is a wonderfully surreal journey through one woman's life and death that explores …
Two years on from his first hormone injection, Kit looks like a man and sounds like a man. While the injections provide Kit with a male physique, they don’t help him understand what be…
Boys is a sprawling behemoth of a play. Although based around a small group of friends in modern day Edinburgh, it spans the full gamut of emotions the unsettled and insecure generation of w…
The Tinder Game Tinder. Love. 2016. On the search for love in the present day is a difficult feat. Creeps, fakes, misleading bragging, who knows what you can believe from a few sleazy lines,…
Picture this. A dimly lit street, leading to a towering Victorian building. Your eyes follow the red bricks ascending to an ash coloured bell tower. And as they climb back down, are met by a…
If you're planning on seeing Putting Words in Your Mouth, the new show from Scottee that's currently playing the Roundhouse, here's some advice – don't read this review. This productio…
Following a £1.3 million refurbishment of The White Bear pub, the theatre has also undergone extensive works. With new seating, new lighting, and a gorgeous new space, it really is set to…
Where Do Little Birds Go? depicts the story of Lucy Fuller, lately arrived in London, and swiftly drawn into a world of violence and exploitation when she attracts the attention of the notor…
"Last week he was here and now he's just not." Catch Me, a new musical, encapsulates both brilliantly and tragically, the shattering effect suicide can have on those left behind. Created by …
The premise of Mocketh the Weak is promising – a faux game show featuring Shakespeare’s most famous fools, competing in a battle of wits and sharp tongues. It received some posit…
Mad Meg is a fine piece bringing together music and dance to tell a simple but very memorable tale, as the finale to the Blue Elephant Theatre's ELEFEET Dance Festival. The piece is devised …
In as pleasant words as I can put it, sometimes people aren't that great. Alice Marshall might say it in a slightly more 'lyrical' way. Her new show Vicious played at Kings Head Theatre, giv…
Hold it! Flash, bang, wallop, what a show! After a run that received rave reviews at the Chichester Festival Theatre, the foot-stomping Half a Sixpence has 'blown right in' to London's West …
In the Spiegeltent at Leicester Square lies a small circular stage surrounded by an audience of buzzing spectators. We’re told to 'leave our troubles at the door' and are promised a ma…
Black History Month may be over, but the concept of Black British-ness is something the artistic word continues to explore. The BBC continues to promote it on our TV screens, and the same is…
English National Ballet (ENB) are fast becoming one of the most intriguing companies at work in the UK today. Under the artistic direction of Tamara Rojo, they have collaborated with choreog…
The princess. Often in fairy-tales they have been the rescued, the man obsessed with nothing in place of a Bechdel Test. The world has since moved on and this brand-new dance piece from Stua…
I must admit I chuckled when I read Andrew Lloyd Webber and Julian Fellowes were going to turn School of Rock into a stage musical. Richard Linklater's 2003 movie is the ultimate anti-establ…
What was the first musical you saw? Or more importantly, what was the first musical you saw that completely engrossed you? I'm proud to say that mine was Willy Russell's Blood Brothers, at t…
Perhaps expecting a musical to be subtle is like expecting a cow to understand the finer points of quantum mechanics. But even so, while Rumpy Pumpy, a piece of original writing by Barbara J…
Set in the heart of London in the 1960's, The Mirror Never Lies is a tale of beauty, love and scoundrel. Based on the novel The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym, the show promises to transport…
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." The infamous Austen quotation rings throughout Richmond Theatre as i…
Director Bryony Shanahan describes the impact of winning a Genesis Future Directors Award for her production of debbie tucker green’s trade at the Young Vic. I am an 'emerging' directo…
Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey's set is a brilliant white, harsh, flickering, fluorescent lighting occupied by glass cages and nowhere to hide. It resembles an otherworldly waiting room cum detent…
"We live in a very violent hierarchy. Just look at our centre, where we work. Have you ever really sat down and grieved, for a single day in your life?" asks George. Our two protagonists …
