10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
'I sometimes think we are being watched.' James Grieve directs a new production of Birch's Black Mountain at the Orange Tree Theatre. A raw psychological thriller, that shows the destructive…
Somewhere between 1984 and The Office, lies It Made Me Consider Me. This surreal dystopian induction to R.A.L.P.H., the company which deals in the extraction and storage of unwanted human me…
Eugene O'Neill had an extraordinary life. He was an extraordinary playwright, winning the Pulitzer prize 3 times, seeing 35 of his 50 plays produced, and being awarded the Nobel Prize in lit…
The fusion of film and theatre entangles the audience's gaze in an ever-evolving web of sound, movement and visuals. This sensory overload replaces linguistic expression, as 300 el x 50 el x…
The Vault Festival is a fantastic initiative, and one of the best opportunities out there to see really promising new work that with proper attention should go on to reach even larger audien…
The first thing you notice about Nicholas Hytner's Julius Caesar is its atmosphere: we arrive at a political rally, a band playing The White Stripes' 'Seven Nation Army', beer and coke are o…
Black Men Walking is part of Revolution Mix, an initiative by Eclipse Theatre, which aims to place the Black narrative at the heart of British Theatre, focusing on the aspects of Black Briti…
The age of digital art is upon us. Theatres and arts organisations everywhere are trying to master the craft of carefully adapting their artistic practice to include the ever elusive 'digita…
The adaptation of theatre into film has become somewhat of a commonality. There is an argument that it gives a piece of theatre longevity, as it can live beyond the moments it would exist fo…
At a time when Ireland's abortion referendum is floating in the air, the clashes of Catholicism's conservatism with a liberalising society are prominent and pressing. Meg Hodgson and Alex Le…
This week, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian author of Americanah, Half of a Yellow Sun and We Should All Be Feminists, was asked by a French journalist: 'Are there book shops in Nigeri…
One of the main appeals of video games and action films is power-fantasy fulfilment: step into a digital world and you can exercise abilities far greater than any you might be capable or bot…
Following its hugely successful run at the Almeida in 2016/17, Mary Stuart has returned to the Duke of York's Theatre. The Islington venue is the gift that keeps on giving, delivering hit af…
Becoming Shades returns to the Vault Festival with a feminist reimagining of the classic Greek myth Persephone, Queen of the Underworld. The original story, which details how we got the seas…
Asia and theatre! Not a contradiction. Foreign Goods 3’s third showcase of new writing about and by Asians, at the Arcola, launches their new book published by Oberon, Foreign Goods…
I was embarrassingly eager to see this, one of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s earlier works, on a triumphant return to the Young Vic. McCraney’s profile has naturally risen since Moonli…
Following the success of 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning The Flick, Annie Baker is back. John, her new gothic tale, is set in a B&B in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Once the site of the deadlies…
Should we feel bad for occasionally preferring to exist in the space called cyber? Is it so awful to be able to communicate more coherently – more confidently through a screen than in …
Dietrich: Natural Duty is a one-(wo)man performance of potency, power and punch; a moreish mixture of cabaret and drag, co-created by Peter Groom and Oliver Gully. The protagonist of the sho…
This February The Soul of Wittgenstein comes to Omnibus Theatre as part of 96 Festival. 1941. Guy's Hospital, London. A battered copy of War and Peace, an illiterate Cockney dying of …
Critically acclaimed Burn Bright Theatre present a visceral, feminist new version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. A brilliant scientist. An extraordinary imagination. A boundary that shouldn…
I get that January is a long, hard, cold month and you're still catching up with some of the life-changing productions 2017 had to offer (i.e. Hamilton), but it's never too early to get exci…
Provocative, bold, yet slightly deflated. Director Bethany Pitts admirably sets herself a near impossible task: empowering prostitutes. There is a paradox between the inherently patriarchal …
Hoxton Hall, tucked down a side street in the depths of East London, is the perfect location for the debut of Lil Warren's new musical, Oranges & Elephants. The vaudeville-style stage th…
Claudia Jefferies is a charismatic, confident performer " you watch her and have to give her the respect she knows is her due. Syd and Sylvia has a fantastic concept behind it and, because o…
