10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
When I was twelve, I had my first taste of success when I came second in my school Eisteddfod playwriting competition. I had written a dark piece about an evil army of killer guinea pigs set…
Described as 'vintage cabaret with a twist of drag', RuPaul's Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon's latest show The Vaudevillians is nothing short of brilliant. Jinkx and her composer buddy Major…
£10 Ticket Offer for Parliament Square by James Fritz Where is the line between absolute commitment and dangerous obsession? How far would you go to ignite change? Kat gets up one morning…
It's three in the morning and Danny is at the tail end of what looks like a pretty decent housewarming. He's the last man standing, if you're being kind; or the creep that won't leave at the…
Does everyone have their evacuation slips? You'll need them as we have a long journey ahead. Hop on board a steam train that travels along a winding track (created by the very cast themselve…
Headed by Maisie Robinson, Succubus Productions launches its first stage appearance at The Cockpit Theatre with The Acid Test, a play with themes that still resonate six years into its futur…
During the summer, I decided that I'd attend Edinburgh Fringe to get my fill of stage performances all in one go. In the midst of one-person performances and plays that I attended, one stood…
It's pretty hard to remain seated in the presence of a lively and exciting performance that has surely rocked the musical boat in a multitude of ways. Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls has been …
Four time periods, four gay relationships, and one masterpiece of writing. In 1680, Arabella Hunt, the star of the opera La Callisto, is engaged in one of the first recorded gay marriages in…
The audience's anticipation is met with a warm welcome of two protagonist of the pantomime Rapunzel at Theatre Royal Stratford East: Baby Bear (Gemma Salter), also known as Harry, and Egor (…
CN Lester is the creator of the celebration and presentation of queer and trans performers that is Transpose. The evening takes place in The Pit of the Barbican, a sizeable black box studio,…
A Curmudgeon’s Guide to Christmas Round Robin Letters certainly succeeds in nurturing the Christmas spirit among audience members. As you enter, the performance space is decked out wit…
After its performance at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Writer, Director and Performer Ellyn Daniels stages Emotional Terrorism in the Drayton Arms Theatre …
"If you ignore your history then you become a shadow" – Edmund, Shadows Shadows, a new play from Carguil Lloyd George Webley and directed by the white American Kevin Michael Reed, is s…
The soft-spoken, sequinned, "frilly, frouffy" star of our show, Henry Cyril Paget, is a man done a disservice by history in that he was written out of it. The fifth Marquis of Anglesey is pl…
Monobox, the not-for-profit workshop and play resource which gives those at the start of their careers a path into theatre, has recently directed a request for help to the theatre community.…
I actually spent much of Dear Brutus watching Michael Billington looking dissatisfied then leaving as fast as he could (similarly, the two friends of an actor I talked to outside after the p…
Tis Unmanly Grief takes its title from a scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet where Claudius rebukes the titular character for mourning the death of his father. Claudius essentially says “get…
It's a balmy night in the sizzling city of Bombay. Â A hot storm darkens the sky as the city elite line up to attend the opening night of the Bombay Roxy; a restaurant opened by Cyrus, a f…
The Millennials is a marvellous show that pays dividends to the experiences of Generation X. It combats the myriad of bleating epithets used to describe those born between 1980 and the mid-1…
Created in 1952, Sylvia was the second full-length ballet created by British choreographer and founder of the Royal Ballet, Frederick Ashton (1904-1988). The production had since tumbled fro…
This time last year, La Soirée were performing their smash-hit winter cabaret in the temporarily erected Spiegeltent, in the very centre of Leicester Square. Fortunately, I was sent to revi…
Simon Bradbury's Curtain Call is a clumsy comedy about love, alcoholism, fear, stubbornness and reconciliation. It follows the diatribes and demi-dramas of three estranged friends " one TV s…
As jazz versions of Christmas Carols are played while the audience enters the Bridge House Theatre, Miracle On 34th Street sets us up for a truly festive affair. This version of the well-kno…
It is a topic charged with relevance- what it is to be a man in a society that is nowadays more concerned with feminist voices. The combination of a reputable feminist voice working with an …
