10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
As you enter the Jack Studio Theatre, he's there. Bleach blonde wig in place, he dances around on an office chair accompanied by the Flying Lizards' 'Money'. Already inciting an atmosphere o…
By my count, upon publication of this review you will have about two weeks left to see The Mountaintop. So stop reading, log onto The Young Vic's website and get booking. When it debuted in …
Theresa Ikoko is on a roll. She's taken a quick lunch break from her day job helping to reduce youth crime in London and we're having a natter about her play Girls, currently playin…
"Freedom of speech is all well and good but it doesn't matter if we're not listening to each other" explains Sam Steiner, writer of award-winning play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons. But…
Walker Vessels (Stanley J Browne) opens The Slave with a monologue that demonstrates timeless wisdom " a sage delivery written in a rhythmic verse bearing resemblance to many Shakespearea…
In a Berkoff double-bill special, a bench on a pier within Trafalgar Studios' flexible and intimate Studio 2 plays host to starkly vivid scenes depicting the beginning, and ending, of a life…
Rob Ward's Gypsy Queen begins with the show's only two actors monologuing under separate spotlights as they prepare us for this LGBTQ boxing love story. As the two strike out, they seem to t…
The Old Red Lion Theatre is a classic black-box above a pub, with limited seating but an intimate feel. Well-known in London for providing exceedingly cheap and good comedy, every two weeks …
Reverend Production's Nerve, playing in a double bill with Jekyll and Hyde at The Greenwich Theatre, is a show that seems to lose its way at times, yet intermittently good writing and some s…
This reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale follows the eponymous character in a contemporary setting which modernises the story in order to relate to twenty-first century themes…
Our obsessive use of technology, the freedom of the internet and our persistence to control planet seems to send us down the path of an Orwellian future. A future where totalitarianism rule,…
Every now and then a gem of a show appears that you hope and pray more people get the opportunity to see. Trident Moon, the new show from workshOPERA and the Finborough, proves you don't nee…
With a multi-disciplinary focus and bold ambitions, New English Ballet Theatre is a company on a mission. "Feminism and female empowerment are buzz words in the press at the minute, and we h…
"The stumbling blocks of our teenage years where emotions and friends rule" are the focus of Erik Kaiel's O Snap, a piece of dance theatre aimed at children from age ten and up. Moments of i…
Erik Kaiel's company " Arch 8 Dancers " have hit Dance Umbrella 2016 with a programme of three contrasting works aimed at younger audiences. Tetris " the first of the three " encompasses ins…
York Theatre Royal's latest season is certainly shaping up to be busy and rather eclectic. They've got all sorts coming up " but one show I wasn't expecting to see on the bill was this one: …
Reader, you find me slumped in front of my laptop, head in hands, struggling to think of something nice to say about Kissing The Shotgun Goodnight. It is so easy to criticise things we don't…
The Autumn Garden was written by Lillian Hellman and first staged in 1951, and you can certainly tell. Set in the Deep South in 1949, the play follows a group of middle-aged adults over the …
Sometimes it's best to keep things simple. Xerxes, an opera by Handel no less, has enjoyed some notable stagings in the past thirty years or so, not least Nick Hytner's 1985 ENO production, …
Maud Dromgoole's new work Acorn is a highly intelligent play in all aspects. It is a two-hander which uses the myths of Persephone and Eurydice to tell a contemporary story about female stre…
Ballet Black, founded by Cassa Pancho in 2001, aims to provide dancers of Black and Asian descent with inspiring opportunities in Classical Ballet. It is an unfortunate fact that classical b…
Doll (Noarah Lopez Holden) is a teenager. A pregnant teenager. Everyone at school and even her mum think that there is something odd about this pregnancy. Ted (George Caple), her best friend…
Jason and the Argonauts is a reinvention of the classic Greek myth set out as a video game in which the Gods select Jason to take on their challenges and find the Golden Fleece. Reviewing a …
The Amish Project was originally written by Jessica Dickey as a one-woman piece, designed to show off an actress's character skills in multi-roling. The students from Saint Mary's University…
What are we without a voice? This is the central question of Can you hear me running?, a charming and funny, but also oddly inscrutable, show playing this month at the Pleasance Theatre. The…
