10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Review: Shook, Southwark Playhouse 5.0stars Shook, Samuel Bailey's debut play, gives an honest and powerful insight into just what is going on with young working-class British boys as they b…
Review: Yes No Black White, Camden People's Theatre4.0starsYes No Black White is part of Camden People's Theatre's Handle With Care festival which interrogates that most bizarrely pejorative…
Many of us know that simply talking about how much danger the planet is in is not enough, but who or what should be doing more when it comes to tackling climate change? Emily Brown discusses…
Review: Death of a Salesman, Young Vic5.0starsThis reviewer is a rare breed as, I have neither seen nor studied Arthur Miller's classic play, Death of a Salesman. Therefore, this Young Vic p…
Review: Endless Second, Pleasance Theatre4.0starsThe media has almost always portrayed rape as a back-and-forth tennis match of he said-she said. Coverage focuses on the individual's backgro…
Review: Ghost Quartet, The Boulevard Theatre4.0starsThink back to the last time you sat around a campfire, literally or figuratively, shoulder to shoulder with friends or strangers. Ideas bo…
Review: Antipodes, National Theatre4.0starsThere is an older play called Antipodes: a late renaissance farce about a man obsessed with imagined worlds on the other side of the Earth, who is …
Review: Shadows, The Coronet Theatre1.0starFrom Aristophanes, to Shakespeare and Honoré de Balzac, the elderly's decline into decrepitude has long been associated in comedy with a return to…
Review: Dirty Crusty, The Yard Theatre 3.0stars In the time it takes me to throw my coat over my shoulders, walk the short distance from The Yard Theatre to the train station, ride the train…
Review: As You Like It, Barbican 3.0stars There's much to admire in Kimberley's Sykes's production of Shakespeare's lively comedy, although something seems to be lurking behind the scenes in…
Review: Frankenstein, Southwark Playhouse3.0stars"Soon," Garth (Sonny Poon Tip) informs the audience, the very act of sitting together in a room to watch a show like this will seem "quaint",…
Eleanor Dewar talks to star of The Bunker Theatre's Before I Was A Bear, Jacoba Williams about becoming a big, furry beast, the positive effect of working in all-female environment and the s…
Lindsey Huebner speaks to theatre critic and now playwright, Ava Wong Davies about being told to decide just one path, crying after scratch nights and how spilling her guts is the best 'proc…
Review: On Bear Ridge, Royal Court4.0starsOn Bear Ridge seems to be set in a present day Wales, but one plagued by a kind of apocalyptic curse. A small town sits in the shadow of a mountain,…
Review: Ages of the Moon, The Vaults 3.0stars 'Might be one of those once in a lifetime things' says Ames (Christopher Fairbank) to his friend Byron (Joseph Marcell), in anticipation of the …
Review: Gaslight, The Playground Theatre4.0starsOur tale is set in a chintzy living room designed by Kate Halstead. The carpet is a striking pink that sends a rosy blush onto the walls. The …
Emma Bentley talks to three actor friends who are sick of the inherent racism they face day after day when auditioning for jobs and often before they even get in the room. If you think you'v…
Review: Trigger Warning, Camden People's Theatre 3.0stars Trigger Warning takes the approximate form of a 'pre show announcement' for what sounds to be quite probably the most ambitious piec…
Review: Nothing Special, Camden People's Theatre1.0starsIt is 9pm in the heart of Camden. Two people are rolling around on the floor, wailing and sloppily jamming bananas into their mouths a…
Josephine Balfour Oatts talks to Toby Clarke about his experiences writing a piece on faith for Fatiha El-Ghorri, a standup comedian he has met once. This afternoon feels darker than usual. …
Review: Little Baby Jesus, Orange Tree Theatre 5.0stars Little Baby Jesus is the miraculous sort of theatre that plucks us completely out of ourselves, pries apart our ribs and speaks so dir…
Review: Translations, National Theatre 5.0stars It feels a little bit silly to be writing a review of Translations after it's sold-out run last year. Tickets sold like hot cakes, and now, du…
Review: Nuclear Future, Camden People's Theatre 3.0stars I suppose it's something we all wonder about, what our future will look like. A future which is set to include turbulent politics, de…
Review: Art Heist, New Diorama Theatre 4.0stars Having missed Art Heist in Edinburgh, I feel sort of relieved to have finally seen it in London. I unavoidably enter with expectations and hap…
Review: Great Expectations, Southwark Playhouse3.0starsFrames draped with fabric stand on either end of a long catwalk. Hannah Wolfe's set is simple but it allows greater focus on the talent…
