10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Review: Downstate, National Theatre5.0starsDownstate, Bruce Norris' new play, takes place in a group home in Illinois. The residents are Fred (Francis Guinan), Dee (K Todd Freeman), Gio (Gle…
Review: I is a strange loop, The Pit at the Barbican3.0Overall ScoreA fluorescent cube scorches The Pit, with white T-shirts and socks made stark against the gloom. In the electric hubbub, a…
Review: Tom Gates: Live on Stage, Richmond Theatre 4.0Overall Score Birmingham Stage Company returns with another live version of a children's book, this time Liz Pichon's Tom Gates series. …
Review: The Shape of the Pain, Wilton's Music Hall 4.0Overall Score An invisible mouth takes Wilton's Music Hall between its teeth. Its tongue licks at every millimetre of the playing space,…
Review: The Jumper Factory, The Weston Studio3.0starsBuilt in 1851, HMP Wandsworth is one of the largest prisons in Western Europe. It currently holds 1628 Category B prisoners. I did not kn…
Review: My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid), Bunker Theatre 5.0stars The act of letter writing is a powerful one. To put unspoken words into writing, words of love, words of…
Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Shakespeare Theatre4.0starsThe Royal Shakespeare Company has been at the heart of bringing classical theatre to a wider audience for many years. Its ac…
Review: The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé, The Pleasance Theatre4.0Overall ScoreIt is always a joy to experience a show full of energetic, rich storytelling and seasoned with a generous he…
Review: Never Trust a Man Bun, Stockwell Playhouse 1.0Overall Score "Brush your hair, pluck your eyebrows and put on something pretty", Rachel (Natasha Grace Hutt) says to Lucy (Katherine Th…
Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Stephen Joseph Theatre5.0starsNorthern Broadsides' latest production of Much Ado About Nothing sits firmly in the world of the 1940s. From its first moments, …
Joseph isn't the only one whose dreams are coming true. Talented newcomer Jac Yarrow has landed his first professional stage gig in the iconic title role of the upcoming Joseph and the Am…
Review: The Grenfell Project, The Hope Theatre4.0starsNearly two years on, and the tragedy of Grenfell seems to be just something else that has slowly but surely faded from the forefront of …
Review: Circa, Old Red Lion Theatre3.0starsCirca follows the life of a nameless character referred to as Mr Man and his desperation to find a monogamous relationship, despite the fact he is …
Frozen is bound for London! Disney Theatrical has scheduled a West End transfer of its 2018Â Tony-nominated Broadway musical for fall of 2020 at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal Drury L…
Rachel Tucker is known both sides of the Atlantic as an especially thrilling Elphaba in Wicked and as a singer who has enlivened various concert halls and cabaret rooms, performing both solo…
Reviews: Undetectable, King's Head theatre4.0starsIn a perfect world, perhaps sex and society would be distinctly separate. Neither would impact or reflect upon the other, and they could exi…
Review: Richard III, Alexandra Palace3.0starsFor its first play to be staged in 80 years, the Alexandra Palace Theatre houses Shakespeare's Richard III, a Headlong production directed by Joh…
Review: Predrinks/Afterparty, Drayton Arms Theatre80%Overall ScoreBottles of alcohol jostle against Schweppes and other colourful mixers. They crowd a coffee table littered with plastic cups…
Review: Lucy Light, VAULT Festival 4.0Overall Score Sarah Milton's latest play Lucy Light deals with some serious stuff. It follows two teenage girls, Lucy (Emmy Rose) and Jess (Amy Clark) f…
Review: 10, VAULT Festival3.0Overall ScoreIn the dramatic and dripping cavern space at the Vaults, a light is shone onto ten women whom history has relegated, or in some cases completely for…
Review: I Run, VAULT Festival4.0Overall ScoreA man is standing on a treadmill, hunched over, readying himself. He is brightly lit by fluorescent lamps and there is something broken in his de…
Review: Blood Knot, Orange Tree Theatre4.0starsWe are in apartheid Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1961. The world outside is divided by race. We sit with the light-skinned Nathan McMullen's M…
Review: Model Behaviour, The Pleasance Theatre5.0Overall ScoreHello everybody, I am fuming. I am so angry about the treatment of women in the modelling industry, and it's all Model Behaviour…
Review: Queen Cunt: Sacred or Profane? Bunker Theatre3.0starsChina Blue Fish and Deborah Antoinette present an evening of sketch comedy circling around female genitalia, sexuality, body imag…
Halima Hassan contemplates loneliness and its inevitable links to technology and social media as she chats to Owen Calvert-Lyons, Director of Ovalhouse's Random Selfies There is vast dif…
