10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Whimsical, nonsensical, and sadly lacking heart, Seussical the Musical aims to blend many of Dr. Seuss's characters into one flashy surreal tale filled with rhyming, joy and well…more rhym…
As a woman in what is still a male dominated industry, can you achieve your goals, without exploiting yourself through sexualisation? Maiden Speech is a platform for new writers, produced by…
Following its original New York premiere in 1950, Guys and Dolls has grown to be a show that is known and loved around the world. In fact, it's probably one of the most well-known stage musi…
Renaissance Men follows Irvine (Sam Heron), a young lad with a desire to write. Through his writing he expresses personal suffering, and is clearly struggling to find his identity. Heron's c…
Jonathan Miller's 2009 production of Puccini's La Bohème returns to the London Coliseum, revived by director Natascha Metherell to mark the fortieth anniversary of Miller's directorial debu…
As a Londoner now living in Bristol, Holly Bond knows the pressures of being a theatre-maker in and out of the Capital. Here, she argues the pros and cons of both. Google 'leaving London' an…
London-based actor Constance Wookey brings to The Bunker her one-woman show Connie Wookey: Denied Under Section 221(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a compelling autobiographical t…
Lyn Gardner writes about Stagedoor, a new app changing the way we access and view theatre, as well as the constant need for fresher critical voices. When I started writing about theatre in t…
New London theatre company That Lot should be praised for their ambitious attempt at bringing to life Jez Butterworth's revered Mojo in the tiny Hens & Chicken Theatre. Unfortunately, ho…
"We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. […] So I’m happy, tonight. I’m not w…
As is evident by the weather, Christmas is around the corner, and so too are the multitude of traditions associated with it; mince pies, Christmas songs and of course the Great British tradi…
Directed by Natasha Nixon, Macbeth is the latest production by the National Youth Theatre REP Company, and the final in its 2018 season (the two previous productions being Consensual and Vic…
The AYT team fired off some questions via email to Judy Kuhn, star of the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Fiddler on the Roof and all-round legend. We find out whether the show’s rele…
Gbolahan Obisesan's adaptation of Chigozie Obioma's Man Booker Prize nominated The Fisherman, is the haunting tale of four brothers tragically separated by a curse. Set in Nigeria in the 90s…
An evening deeply rooted in Indian culture that is sure to plunge you into a stylised and traditional form of dance complemented by contemporary ideas. The Darbar Festival has been going for…
It's no secret that the theatre industry has problems with diversity beyond the types of actors we see on stage. Playwrights, directors and producers are primarily white males, continuing th…
It's fair to say I caught Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays on a bad night, but if that's their worst, then they're still pretty good. Mark Bittlestone and Will Dalrymple's two-man show is all…
Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma, first performed in 1934, is a deeply strange and dark play, full of rural ghosts, poetry and ritual. It's the final part, as the Cervantes team remind us, of h…
What does it mean to place value on something? We can value things emotionally and we can value them in a monetary sense, but what does it mean to extrapolate the financial worth of an objec…
Written in 1948, Summer And Smoke by Tennessee Williams is far from one of his most performed works. Overshadowed by the likes of The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, this play …
Based on the true crime story of the murderous duo Claire and Solange Papin, The Maids explores the relationship between reality and 'the game'. The object of the 'game' " to kill the mistre…
After a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Hunchtheatre's adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time comes to Dalston's Arcola Theatre. A favourite novel of second year…
I'm sure many of you have worked Front of House at a theatre. Apart from the performers, we are the most visible, prominent faces and the ones who deal with audiences directly. Most of the t…
How to Catch a Krampus promises to be a "black-hearted antidote to all things cheery this festive season" – enough, apparently, to 'ruin your Christmas.' This is, obviously, tongue-in-…
An unlikely mix of ballets that covers technical proficiency, intriguing narratives and stunning partner work. The whole show takes you through a versatile look at ballet over 70 years, with…
