10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
The Royal Court Theatre is the producing house par excellence when it comes to epic new writing, tackling intense subjects tastefully and professionally, never failing to disappoint. Father …
Getting Better Slowly (which, cleverly, is GBS for short) is a piece created by Adam Pownall, who was affected by Guillain-Barré Syndrome. This is his story, adapted by Nick Wood into an ev…
Carlos Acosta, world famous Cuban ballet prodigy is hanging up his ballet shoes and bidding farewell to the demands of Classical performance. It feels as if he's been saying goodbye forever,…
In a way you know what you get with Beckett. The sparse, unsentimental text; the ghostly, post-apocalyptic staging. But a new performance or, even more excitingly in this case, a new work, b…
The intimate and inclusive in-the-round set up of the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs was a fitting choice to play host to Nathaniel Martello-White's new play Torn, which serves to ex…
Paul Warwick is a director and producer and co-founder of China Plate. Macbeth – Blood Will Have Blood is an adaptation of Shakespeare's play aimed at 9-13 year-olds, written by Nick W…
What a frustrating show. Perhaps frustration is a suitable theme for an opera about the dangers of seeking to satisfy your every desire, but this version of Mozart and Da Ponte's classic is …
Jonathon Crewe's theatrical directing debut at the Jack Studio Theatre immerses the audience into what is probably unfamiliar territory for the majority. Toy Soldier, originally a radio play…
Initially the description of Fagin’s Twist suggests that the audience will learn more about Fagin’s background and how he became the man in Dickens' novel. However, this is inste…
Plays about family dynamics are hard to get right. Often they are stuffed with melodrama and unfold like an episode of Coronation Street, or they are lengthy, ponderous disquisitions on over…
The West Yorkshire Playhouse is well into its Autumn season, and is continuing to highlight the unique voices of some of Yorkshire’s finest literary craftswomen: the Brontë sisters.…
Chickenshed is a truly inspirational theatre company, well known for its education and outreach work, and its commitment to integration and inclusivity. Knowing this, one feels kindly dispos…
Girls is a play which likes to play around with expectations. It begins in a forest, in an unnamed African country, with the three eponymous girls chatting innocuously about sex and relation…
Natalia Osipova has followed the lead of French prima-ballerina Sylvie Guillem by throwing herself into the world of contemporary dance in her first self-commissioned programme. Supported by…
John Wilmot, the 2nd Earl of Rochester, was the licentious libertine who embodied the spirit of the Restoration era. After King Charles II returned to the throne in 1660, most of the country…
One man shows always fascinate me. When experiencing these types of shows as a spectator, you feel obliged to return to a time when you were told stories by your parents. Theatre is an e…
In an unspecified area of London, Hari, 11, along with his sister Lydia and Mamma, are fresh off the plane from Ghana, leaving behind his father, baby sister Agnes and his grandmother. He re…
Whether you like their work or not, you can't deny that the Flanagan Collective are always trying to come up with something new and original, and more often than not, something that tries to…
Forget Glee. Harmony singing is dangerous. It can kill. We know about its power, and its versatility. And now we are going deep into the forbidden room of Bluebeard's castle to reveal our bl…
It's always interesting to see where Fringe shows end up after their stint in Edinburgh. Some shows disappear, while others re-emerge years later with renewed vigour and poise. The latter is…
In the current theatre climate there is an incredible necessity and desire for new musicals. The UK is being left behind as Broadway streaks ahead in its musical creations, with Hamilton and…
Win a pair of tickets to see Shopping and F***ing at the Lyric Hammersmith Shopping and F***ing | 7 Oct – 5 Nov 2016 | Lyric Hammersmith Twenty years since its explosive prem…
Motion is written, performed and 'sprouted from the minds of' Sally Reichardt and Rosie Frecker. It is a delightful play about the ambition of a cyclist and the people who motivate her to be…
Spymonkey have conducted a frankly ridiculous and boldly profane treatment of all 75 onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare – and then some. Spymonkey (a clown troupe of fo…
Dreamless Sleep is the latest play by young writer-director Georgie Staight. It's a cripplingly funny, raw and moving examination of a relationship between N (Niamh Watson) and H (Hannah Law…
