10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Being a creative, whilst doing other jobs in order to survive is hard. As part of a new series, multi-talented AYT writer, Emma Bentley talks about her experiences in a thoughtful and often,…
Review: Ian McKellen On Stage, Harold Pinter Theatre5.0starsSir Ian McKellen is a story-telling machine of the highest calibre " even the creases about his eyes resemble that of a folded dow…
Review: The Niceties, Finborough Theatre3.0starsIn the notes section at the beginning of Eleanor Burgess's play, The Niceties, she writes, "both of these women can be noble… resist the tem…
Review: 'Master Harold' … and the boys, Lyttleton Theatre 5.0starsApartheid. A word that conjures up images of racism and injustice. South Africa, up until 1994, was segregated. Now, in…
Review: We Anchor In Hope, Bunker Theatre 4.0stars What does everyone love about a pub? The characters, the stories, the reminiscing… and the booze. We Anchor In Hope wholly embraces this …
Review: Danelaw, Old Red Lion Theatre4.0starsMany contemporary plays centre on current social and political affairs " few do it with the same level of intelligent humour as Danelaw, a play w…
The Tony-nominated composer/lyricist Dave Malloy of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 fame hasn't had a London presence until this fall, when he is unexpectedly being represented…
Lindsey Huebner finds herself in a Wikipedia frenzy after speaking to Matt Ryan of Gameshow Theatre about new show, Nuclear Future. Minutes after hanging up the phone with Matthew Evans, co-…
King's Head Theatre's acclaimed staging of Kevin Elyot's groundbreaking 1982 play Coming Clean, which examines the breakdown of a gay couple's relationship, will return to the London stageÂ…
Stage veteran Paterson Joseph has been cast as the evil Ebenezer Scrooge in the Young Vic's upcoming remount of A Christmas Carol. The smash-hit London production, adapted by Jack Thorne and…
Review: REDD, Barbican Theatre5.0starsHaving made enormous (and innovative waves) in the world of dance theatre with Blak, Whyte, Gray in 2017, associates of The Barbican, Boy Blue, return h…
Review: This Is Not Right, Wilton's Music Hall 3.0stars Wilton's Music Hall is the perfect location for This Is Not Right. It's bare, crumbling bricks, cast-iron pillars and faded paint comb…
Review: Noises Off, Garrick Theatre5.0starsAt some point during Act three, I am laughing so hard that I rifle in my bag for my inhaler " somewhere in the show between the cactus and the thre…
Review: The Watsons, Menier Chocolate Factory 3.0stars From beginning to end, The Watsons pays homage to Jane Austen. Laura Wade's experimentally metatheatrical play engages Austen's wit, sh…
Review: Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of), Northern Stage5.0starsI admit that I was sceptical about Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of) at first. It's hard to make something fresh and unique w…
Henry Shields is an invaluable part of London's invaluable and in-demand Mischief Theatre Company, having long doubled as both a writer and actor on such hits as The Play That Goes Wrong, Pe…
As Ad Infinitum's Extraordinary Wall of Silence starts its run at Bristol Old Vic, Co-Artistic Director, George Mann sits down with friend and colleague, Matt Gurney to chat about his experi…
Emma Bentley talks with Writer, Cressida Peever about Shotgun Carousel's new immersive, dining experience, the necessity of safe spaces and giving audience members the opportunity to be nobl…
Review: Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp., Royal Court Theatre 5.0stars Caryl Churchill: a legend of British theatre. The kind of playwright whose voice writers all over dream of emanating in som…
Review: Gastronomic, Shoreditch Town Hall4.0starsGastronomic is a stunning contradiction. It sweeps us 37,000 feet into the air only to remind us that our most intimate memories and identiti…
Review: Blood Wedding, Young Vic5.0stars'Marina is a lightning conductor for pulling the visceral charge of language right through words and back into the earth where that force belongs.' Th…
Review: Mother of Him, Park Theatre 3.0stars Brenda Kapowitz (Tracy-Ann Oberman) prepares breakfast for her petulant youngest son, answers phone calls and presses him to dress for school. Th…
Review: Zeus on the Loose, Fire London 2.0stars "If all of you haven't left with STIs tonight, we haven't done our job right!" cackles Apollo (Dean McCullough) our host, his glittery lips tw…
Review: The Seven Ages of Patience, Kiln Theatre5.0starsOh wow! That seems like a good place to start when trying to write up about The Seven Ages of Patience at the Kiln, a community play p…
London's Menier Chocolate Factory has announced initial casting for its upcoming production of Sandy Wilson's delightful 1953 tuner The Boy Friend. Matthew White will direct the previously a…
