10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
This production of Harold Pinter's drawing-room puzzler returns to its spiritual home in the West End after a long time traversing America (originally in rep with Waiting for Godot in 2013) …
I have often heard older millennials like me bemoaning a recent slump in the quality of live children's entertainment on TV. Our parents had Crackerjack, and we had SMTV Live, but kids nowad…
Michael Head's new play The Greater Game tells the true story of a group of young professional footballers who sign up to fight in the First World War. Encouraged by their manager (Nick Hanc…
This is a well-intentioned production by Theatre Accord in association with Tara Arts that examines the capacity for and dependence on mind control in organized religion. Adapted from Abdul …
'The Breaks In You And I' written by contemporary writer and comedian Lizzie Milton, is a hilarious, heartfelt, and passionate account of a mutually corrosive relationship between characters…
Written in 1695 by a woman simply known as 'Ariadne', She Ventures and He Wins was one of six plays showcased at The Rose Playhouse as part of 'A Festival Celebrating Pioneering Women Playwr…
Have you ever imagined what it would feel like not to be able to read people's facial expressions? To be able to memorise brilliantly? To be pigeon holed as a type because of your diagnosis?…
I feel like the much-loved Northern Broadsides' last two productions of King Lear and The Merry Wives, while hitting the marks in some places, really didn’t seem to be hitting the rest…
"In a land where anything is possible, no imagination is too big for our dream factory. Â Not even yours." This is the claim made by House of Stray Cats in the description of their latest …
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur is one of Tennessee Williams' lesser-known, yet brilliant, plays. Set in 1930s St Louis, the play follows the wispy and love swept Dorothea (Laura Rogers) as …
Gallows Rope seeks to explore issues peculiar to twenty-first century London. Solitary existence, overpopulation, and Londoner's inability to communicate with people sat opposite them are…
2016 marks the 100-year anniversary of Roald Dahl's birth. A writer with spirit, humanity and guts, his books have become a childhood staple for generations of youngsters looking to escape t…
Ross Sutherland's first drama Party Trap is an entirely palindromic play (title included) in which every line in the first half of the play is repeated in reverse in the second. Out of these…
In terms of nautical drama the perils of EU fishing quotas are hardly up there with perfect storms or doomed lovers colliding with icebergs, but Smoking Apples have nevertheless carried off …
The Royal Opera House hosts an utterly triumphant revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier's production of Gioachino Rossini and Cesare Sterbini's classic opera Il barbiere di Siviglia (t…
Celebrating its 10th year, HighTide Festival is a vital platform for emerging new work. Ten days of premieres of new work, talks, readings, comedy and cabaret in the seaside town of Aldeburg…
The success of Zoe Cooper's Jess and Joe Forever is emblematic of why fostering new writing is so important. Originally commissioned by Old Vic New Voices and a co-production between Oran…
On the way to the Queens Theatre for our first day of tech rehearsals for Made in Dagenham, my eyes are drawn to the leading article on the Guardian homepage: "UK women still far adrift on s…
For the most part, theatre has always prided itself on being a workplace of diversity and equal opportunities. However, it's been fairly noticeable that there aren't that many opportunities …
The intentions in this new musical, a retelling of the Orpheus legend in the form of an 80s rock opera, are no doubt good. The title derives from the age at which Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain …
BigMouth and SmallWaR directed by and starring the one man powerhouse that is Valentijn Dhaenens, are performance pieces with text based around the theme of war. The first a tribute to…
Giant opens to London audiences after a successful run in Edinburgh. The Human Zoo Theatre Company welcomes and interacts with the audience as they are getting seated. This is very surpr…
With such a vast number of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year, it is not surprising that I wasn't able to see everything I wanted to. That's why I was so relieved that RashDash…
The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon is an imaginative, whimsical and captivating piece about our obsession with the skies above. Entering Greenwich Theatre, the audience are exposed …
 On the stage sits two chairs, a desk, and a curtain. All composed of or smothered in shredded paper. Washed over with a blue light, it looks cold and uninviting. Written by Simon Paris, …
