10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
In the latest edition of her very personal theatremaker series, Holly Bond discusses the difficulties and unfortunate necessity in networking. I hate the word networking. It reminds me of cr…
Review: Violet, Charing Cross Theatre3.0Overall ScoreI suppose my key issue with Violet lay directly in the story being told. There's something hard to swallow about the very core of it: a g…
Review: Murder, She Didn't Write, Leicester Square Theatre4.0starsHow do you write a review for a show where the performance doesn't have a script and the jokes have to be made up on the spo…
Review: Twelfth Night, Southwark Playhouse2.5starsA hyperactively charged show that takes Shakespeare into a contemporary setting, this show is a quirky adaptation of Twelfth Night that find…
After a very successful 2018 and a massive push to be more inclusive, the Vaults are back to take over London Waterloo’s nether regions. We’re just a little bit excited about wha…
Review: A Modest Little Man, Bread and Roses Theatre 2.0Overall Score Following Clement Attlee from his unexpectedly successful election campaign in 1945, to his creation of the welfare stat…
Review: Nuns, Tristan Bates Theatre3.0Overall ScoreWith the promise of delinquency, sin and smoking, I was anticipating a hot and dangerous exploration of religious rebellion as I sat down t…
Review: Brawn, The Space4.0Overall ScoreIt's hard to do a 'good' show about masculinity. It's very hard. All around us, masculinity and its impact on those surrounding it are experiencing a …
Review: 24 Italian Songs and Arias / Diana Is Dead! The Yard Theatre2.0starsAs I approach Hackney Wick for an improbable Tuesday night double-bill of 24 Italian Songs and Arias and Diana Is …
Review: Witness for the Prosecution, London County Hall4.0starsAn Agatha Christie legal drama set in a 1920's Courtroom? You might as well watch Death on the Nile on a boat? Or Murder on the…
Review: Anomaly, Old Red Lion Theatre3.0starsAnomaly places itself at the heart of the Time's Up and #MeToo movement. Focusing on three daughters of a media mogul, Philip Preston, who has ju…
Review: Outlying Islands, King's Head Theatre 5.0Overall Score To be entirely honest, I went into David Greig's Outlying Islands, directed by Jessica Lazar, expecting a play about seagulls a…
Review: Rosenbaum's Rescue, Park Theatre 3.0Overall Score Written by A. Bodin Saphir, Rosenbaum's Rescue is set at Hanukkah in 2001. At a remote home on the snowy Danish coast, it's time for…
If circus is your bag then we have a competition that is right up your street. We’re giving you a chance to have a pair of tickets to see No Show at the Soho Theatre. Read the blurb be…
Review: Stop and Search, Arcola Theatre3.0starsGabriel Gbadamosi's topical play looks at the points of view from each end of today's society, with characters Akim (Munashe Chirisa), a refuge…
Review: Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios3.0stars"Have an éclair dear, calm yourself down," and boy do we need calming down! With a wit, pace and intensity that almost sweeps us off our feet,…
Director of the Pleasance Theatre, Anthony Alderson talks about his new six month commitment to support New Writing, starting with #YouWillKnowTheirNames. On 28 November last year, the Depar…
Review: Songs For Nobodies, Ambassadors Theatre4.0starsJudy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas. How could it be possible that one woman may play all of these i…
stars4.0Overall ScoreOriginal Death Rabbit, currently running at the Jermyn Street Theatre, sounds like it has something to do with the film Donnie Darko. It doesn't, although they have more…
Review: The War of the Worlds, New Diorama Theatre3.0Overall ScoreOver 80 years after The Mercury Theatre’s infamous broadcast of H.G Wells’ The War of the Worlds, scepticism of …
Bonnie Tyler's aptly chosen lyrics 'I need a hero!' welcome us into the modernised Thebes of neon lights and a ping-pong table on wheels; and we are greeted by 'gods' facing the everyday, re…
Review: Wise Ones, Wild Ones, Rich Mix4.0Overall ScoreShoreditch. 2019. It is late; the sun has long since set. An audience is welcomed into a room on the top floor of the Rich Mix performan…
Review: An Enemy Of The People, Union Theatre2.0Overall ScoreI am handed the program for tonight's performance as I enter, the front cover blazoned with a now infamous image (Seamus Wray) of…
Currently studying at college, Emily Schofield talks frankly about the fears she has as a young person going into the theatre industry and her plans for drama school. Before joining London C…
Review: Pinter Six, Harold Pinter Theatre4.0Overall ScorePinter Six, part of Jamie Lloyd‘s Pinter at the Pinter season, features two of Harold Pinter‘s comedies: Party Time and C…
