10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Christmas is upon us! Well, late November is upon us, which in turn brings the annual resurrection of the great British pantomime. Charles Court Opera are bringing their eleventh "boutique p…
"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine". These are the opening lines of Jane Austen's debut novel, Northanger Abbey, followi…
Colourism has been widespread in our communities for far too long. Western society's Eurocentric beauty standards have created a warped hierarchy in which proximity to whiteness is perceived…
In the final leg of its tour of the UK, the Sex Worker's Opera has garnered a huge and passionate response in its various incarnations since 2014. Siobhan Knox, one of the directors, describ…
Upon entering the casually constructed set of the Barber Shop Chronicles, sharply designed by Rae Smith to be inclusively global yet endearingly personal, you'll find that the cast consistin…
Based on the Firecracker documentary, Jamie: Drag Queen At 16, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie takes us on the titular role’s journey to discovering who he is, in and out of a dr…
Opera and musical theatre have historically not been very kind in their representation of certain demographics: BME people, for example, barely figure in what we consider to be the classics …
OSLO plays a strictly limited season in the West End until 30 December, direct from a multi-award-winning run on Broadway where it won every 'Best Play' award in the 2017 season, and a sold-…
How can we draw a line between the public and private self? What if our routine is turned upside down and affects our private relationships and self-concepts? What if trust seems to be an un…
It is getting darker and colder in London and Christmas is still a month away. Now is the right time for an escape into an optimistic musical about the Ordinary Days in our lives. Adam Gwon'…
Sensual gluttony. Bolshoi ballerina Svetlana Zakharova and other members of the company created Amore, which allowed my eyes and ears to gorge upon this celebration of aesthetic and sonorous…
Shakespeare wasn't one for mere variations on a theme. His plays scope war, fratricide, teenage angst and sylvan frolics, albeit with a long-running joke on the mysteries of human character.…
Nico Muhly is back at the Coliseum with the world premiere of a new opera, following 2011's Two Boys. Based on Winston Graham's novel " and dramatised by Hitchcock in the 1964 thriller starr…
The tension mounts as the audience is led through a labyrinth of dimly lit stone staircases and dingy corridors, before finally arriving at a deserted underground car park. The serious expre…
"To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul." wrote Oscar Wilde in De Profundis during his imprisonment for gross …
"Well, this is awkward" Yes Bobby, yes it is. Meet Bobby, played unfailingly awkwardly by Linus Karp, a twenty something with daddy issues so severe the only sexual gratification he receives…
When a performance begins with the Arts Minister thanking Dionysus, the Greek god of theatre, Â with libations it is a clear signal that something out of the ordinary is about to take plac…
What does it take to be a true activist? Are we all, as a collective capable of making real difference or is it just too easy to be apathetic, to feign interest and sit behind a computer scr…
Created and performed by Koko Brown, WHITE explores what it means to be mixed race in contemporary Britain. A theatre-maker, spoken-word and cabaret artist, the twenty-five-year-old from Nor…
Now, I don't know much about clowning, so I wholeheartedly invite any of you out there who do to use your own knowledge to supplement this review. Hyperion is an hour long, one man show abou…
A story about an unlikely friendship: two misfits find each other to re-find life again. We all have heard these stories. No Place Like Hope, written by Callum McGowan, fits this pattern. Ho…
The Dark Room (Best New Australian Work, Sydney Theatre Awards) concerns itself with the mistreatment of the young and the vulnerable, and the failures of corrupt governing bodies to deal wi…
In 1964, Marshal McLuhan taught us that 'the medium is the message'. Back then, that medium was television. Today, it is the internet, social media, smartphones that live in our pocket. We a…
Brexit. We know it; we all have feelings about it; it is oft-talked about. And divisive subject material is always a gold mine for creatives. Ian Dixon Potter's lastest show with Golden Age …
David is sick of being persecuted. In fact, David is sick of anyone in the LGBT+ community being persecuted. So, perhaps unsurprisingly throughout this multimedia, musical theatre-inspired m…
