10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Review: The Flies, The Bunker1.0starWritten in 1943, Jean Paul-Sartre's The Flies adapts the Greek Myth of Orestes and his lost sister Electra as they seek to avenge their unjustly murdered …
Review: Citysong, Soho Theatre3.0starsI think it's fair to say that the Irish are famed for their musical and literary prowess almost as much as they are for their drinking habits and four-l…
Review: Banquet of Hoshena, Westfield Shepherd's Bush3.0starsBanquet of Hoshena is a truly memorable dining experience that links intricate food with sophisticated beverages. This is an abso…
Man of many talents, Jonathan Goddard talks to Josephine Balfour Oatts about his exciting new, Arthur Pita helmed dance piece, The Mother. Luckily, the pillar-box-red seating in Meeting Room…
London's Falsettos has found its tight-knit family. Initial casting is set for the European premiere of the beloved musical by William Finn and James Lapine. The previously announced product…
London's National Theatre has announced a new staging of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's dark comic play The Visit, or The Old Lady Comes to Call, featuring a new adaptation by Tony and Pulitzer …
London's Old Vic theater has announced dates for its upcoming mounting of Duncan Macmillan's comedic drama Lungs. The previously announced production, directed by Matthew Warchus, will st…
Review: Education, Education, Education, Trafalgar Studios3.0starsRemember what it felt like to be in high school? Everyone was against you, failing an exam meant the end of your life and at…
Like many of us, Emma Bentley was not happy to see Emilia close early. Here, she ponders why: bad ticket sales? bad marketing? The white men at the 'top'? When something ends early it's alwa…
Review: Kill Climate Deniers, Pleasance Theatre4.0starsKill Climate Deniers is an extraordinarily daring play that is a political rally for saving our environment. This fringey, intimate sho…
Review: Bronx Gothic, Young Vic4.0starsWritten and performed by Okwui Okpokwasili, Bronx Gothic delves into her memories of growing up in the Bronx. Set in the confusing age between childhoo…
Review: Hobson's Choice, Royal Exchange Manchester4.0starsTanika Gupta's spirited version of Hobson's Choice made its stage debut 16 years ago at the Young Vic. Restaged by Atri Banerjee, it…
Review: Journey to the Impossible, The Place, Bedford5.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesAs part of a collaboration with The Place, Bedford, we are publishing reviews by three young writers…
Review: WIFE, Kiln Theatre4.0starsWIFE by Samuel Adamson presents four stories over four generations, hurtling through a period of eighty years. This new play is all at once a tribute to que…
Review: Breath Control: Osmosis, The Coronet Theatre3.0Overall ScoreSitting at the bar at The Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill is like climbing inside a rare artefact. A one-of-a-kind doll's …
Review: Venice Preserved, The Swan Theatre4.0Overall ScoreDespite its immense contemporary popularity, Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved is a piece that hasn't appeared on our stages for a num…
Review: Kalakuta Republik, Barbican 4.0stars Taking inspiration from the life and work of Fela Kuti, magnetic musician, Afrobeat pioneer and unwavering political activist, Kalakuta Republik …
Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Northern Stage3.0starsA Thousand Splendid Suns is about mothers and daughters surviving in the most extreme of circumstances. Based on Khaled Hosseini's nov…
Gus Mitchell talks about the environmental, political fuck-ups and drum n' bass concept albums with one of the performers currently in the Pleasance Theatre's Kill Climate Deniers. A militan…
Review: Horrible Histories: Dreadful Deaf, Bristol Old Vic4.0Overall ScoreI am so excited by the prospect of a live rendition of Horrible Histories, that I have to tell all my twenty-somethi…
Onetime Disney Channel teen queen Dove Cameron has been spreading her theatrical wings of late. Last December the 23-year-old performer opened off-Broadway in the New Group production of the…
Review: The Hired Hand, Hull Truck Theatre 3.0stars The Hired Man, Melvyn Bragg and Howard Goodall's 1985 musical about " unsurprisingly " a hired hand and his family in early twentieth cent…
Review: Beach Body Ready, Hull Truck Theatre5.0starsAs I walk into the Hull Truck's Studio Theatre on a muggy Friday night, two things strike me. Firstly, the studio is fuller than I have ev…
Review: The Starry Messenger, Wyndham's Theatre3.0starsIf I have learned anything from The Starry Messenger, it's that watching someone else's mid-life crisis unfold is really quite boring. …
Emma Bentley talks to Director, Prasanna Puwanarajah about his new graphic novel inspired show at the RSC, working with 'cool' people and battling to make theatre more open for young people.…
