10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Review: Styx, Playground Theatre5.0starsWith the Edinburgh Fringe Festival over, September brings a whole host of transfers to delight London theatre goers. One of these is Styx, the lat…
Review: Rouge, Underbelly Festival, Southbank 4.0stars The circus is something you are taught to associate with spectacles and stunts beyond your wildest imagination. In the present day, I t…
Review: Crocodile Fever, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe5.0stars Crocodile Fever, Meghan Tyler's new play at the Traverse, is 90 minutes of bold new writing, great performances, and one s…
Approaching one of Austen's most celebrated stories with some snobbery, Isobel McArthur decided there was only one way to tell Pride & Prejudice. Emma Bentley finds out more. Maybe, like…
Full casting has been announced for the highly anticipated U.K. premiere staging of The Prince of Egypt, arriving in London's West End next year. The previously announced production, d…
Review: Vivaldi Meets Werther: Four Seasons, Bridewell Theatre 3.0stars Vivaldi Meets Werther is a traditional retelling of Goethe's famous story The Sorrows of Young Werther, woven through …
Review: The Secret River, National Theatre 4.0stars Still reeling from the death of Ningali Lawford-Wolf (the original narrator and creative spine of The Secret River), Andrew Bovell's stage…
Review: With One Look, Underbelly Festival Southbank3.0starsWith One Look is a 60 minute soiree with Vivienne de Vil and her two man band Henry Brennan and Nick Anderson. The piano plays, Ms…
Review: Vulvarine: A New Musical, Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsFollowing their smash hit musical Buzz about the history of the vibrator, Fat Rascal Theatre return to …
Review: Ticker, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe5.0starsWritten and performed by Tom Machell, Ticker is a fully-fledged, consummate piece of theatre. It is rare and no small achievement …
Fra Fee, a rising star who made his Broadway debut last fall in The Ferryman, has joined the cast of the National Theatre's upcoming return engagement of Brian Friel's modern classic Transla…
Review: James Rowland's Songs of Friendship, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsJames Rowland is performing his Songs of Friendships trilogy across the month, mostly on separate evenings, b…
Review: Your Sexts are Shit: Older Better Letters, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe 3.0stars Writer and performer Rachel Mars wants to show us that sex isn't new, and queer desire has been aroun…
Review: The Art of Caring, Lion and Unicorn Theatre4.0starsThe Art of Caring is a quietly powerful gem of a play that delivers a heart warming story and phenomenal acting. It's a fast-paced …
Julia Head went from working Box Office at the Bristol Old Vic with her friend Marek to forming theatre company, Full Rogue. Now their show, Wild Swimming is on there. Here, she talks about …
Review: For now we see through a mirror, darkly, Greenside Nicholson Square, Edinburgh Fringe 3.0stars For now we see through a mirror, darkly is certainly unique. Inspired by texts from Alc…
Review: Rust, Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh Fringe2.0starsKenny Emson's Rust has a hard time making the leap from page to stage. Sentences move precariously throughout, as if infirm " stilted and…
During this month, Theatre 503's 'Summer Takeover' has offered us creatives advice to help further our careers. Invited to the closing event, Blue Huseyin wonders just how much help new writ…
Review: Sex Education, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe 4.0stars Growing up in a household in Blackpool with a god-fearing mother and a father who gave him his first porn DVDs aged fourteen, Har…
Review: Macbeth, Temple Church 3.0stars The decision to stage Macbeth in a church is deliberate and powerful. The stage rises up in a long aisle between the facing pews. The audience are tra…
Review: Appropriate, Donmar Warehouse4.0starsThe great tradition of watching a family be horrible to one-another is given a fresh undercurrent in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 2014 play Appropriat…
Review: Fleabag, Wyndham's Theatre4.0starsFleabag is something of a haunted house, occupied by its long-term tenant: the ghost of Christmas Yet-To-Come. Now, Phoebe Waller-Bridge " the gift …
Sope Dirisu and Natey Jones will join Wendell Pierce and Olivier winner Sharon D. Clarke in two-time Tony winner Marianne Elliott and co-director Miranda Cromwell's acclaimed new staging of …
The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a regular visitor to the London stage but there's never in my extensive experience been as likable an…
Review: M.E.H, The Place, Bedford4.0starsAs part of a collaboration with The Place, Bedford, we are publishing reviews by three young writers between June and August 2019. This is the final …
