10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
After its hugely successful production staged at the National Theatre in 2001, Paul Miller brings a new revival of Humble Boy written by Charlotte Jones to the Orange Tree Theatre. The play …
The names are scrawled in white across the walls of the theatre: Eric Garner, Emmet Till, Sandra Bland. Innocent black men and women murdered in racially motivated attacks. Most are young me…
This March, acclaimed contemporary dance company Candoco return to Sadler's Wells with a double bill: Face In and Let's Talk About Dis. Founded in 1991 by Celeste Dandeker-Arnold OBE and Ada…
A powerful coming of age story, Yvette tells the tale of a 13-year-old girl's journey towards womanhood and the struggles experienced throughout the teenage years that we can all sympathise …
After its last hugely successful tour in 2015/2016, The Sound of Music has returned for another tour of the UK. The tour, beginning in December 2017, is nearing the end of its current UK run…
Can I be an actor?…I remember my fourteen year old self asking this very question. Fast forward ten years and I'm now lucky enough to be doing just that – ACTING (or at least try…
  For anyone who doesn't know, in 2007 Britney Spears, actual living icon, had a very public and well-reported breakdown. This period of her life included lots of tracksuits, attacking…
After The Ball, written by Ian Grant, sees William Randall (Stuart Fox) grow from an idealistic young man to a frail whisper of who he used to be, and the relationships he forms along the wa…
Kim (Faye Maughan) is feeling the pressure to procreate. TV ads and well-meaning friends all stress the virtues of motherhood. Now she's pushing 40 and the IVF costs are stacking up. Is it t…
I'm not a huge fan of horror theatre " I point-blank refused to see 'The Woman in Black' in the theatre, and could only watch the film version behind the comfort of a cushion. Even a student…
The most important thing to be said about She Bangs The Drums, a show created by Contact's Young Company, Sh!t Theatre, and the People's History Museum in Manchester, is that it's not just a…
Directed by Rebecca Frecknall, Tennessee Williams' 1948 play Summer and Smoke arrives at the Almeida Theatre in the week that the meteorological season of spring has taken the United Kingdom…
Ok, Bye is the tale of loss: loss of a parent, loss of freedom, and the loss of a homing pigeon. Co-creators Kate Goodfellow and Vicki Baron have combined a family saga narrative with very r…
LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek's final opera never promised to be easy listening; based on Dostoevsky's novel set in a Siberian gulag, the piece might be difficult to digest at first hearing. It is a…
Did you know there are actually five north poles? " FIVE! Rory's Dad was a geography teacher. Rory's Dad loved explorers. Rory's Dad always wanted to go to the North Pole. Rory's Dad has jus…
Stephen Beresford’s adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny And Alexander follows the lives of an upper class family, and the dysfunction within it. It is a tale of decadence, desire, …
Naomi Sheldon's explosive one-woman show is an inspiring union of feminism and the best kind of comedy- refreshing honesty. Spanning the years 1995 to 2018, we see the development of the 90s…
Interrogating the nature of ballet itself, this boldly experimental performance goes far beyond the bounds of expectation. Made up of three distinctive pieces which explore new dimensions of…
"Sit and bear witness". It's difficult; of course it is. In Foreign Body, the product of some four years of development, Imogen Butler-Cole trains everything she has at the subject of sexual…
The artists aren't just present, they're relentless. Action Hero's Slap Talk is more than a dialogue, and more even than a six-hour long dialogue, though its length goes straight to some eye…
Luke Adamson's Black Coffee Theatre aims to tell stories that are accessible to all. His characters speak like normal people and are easy to identify with. The story of One Last Walt…
This Macbeth lives in a world of bin bag chic. Raves, duct-taped armour, heads thrown into plastic bags; this is an apocalyptic underworld where dad dancing mingles with murder, in a visuall…
I should have loved this play. I'm into Christ, I'm into being gay. Terrence McNally's script, in the right hands and possibly another context, can probably reach beautiful and painful level…
DumbWise does not quite live up to their big claim that they have "reinvented" the gory myth of the house of Atreus with their Electra; unfortunately, there isn't too much here to distinguis…
Compelling, sympathetic and intelligent. Advertised as a tragicomedy, Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy is exactly that, but perhaps more a tragedy with some cultural puns thrown in for good me…
