45 stories by "Laura Stevens"
The social importance of eating together is reiterated throughout history and resonates across cultures. Of course, here in Britain, the attention affixed to tea is a clear indication of thi…
Two A Younger Theatre (AYT) writers have been shortlisted for a prestigious critics award. Kate Wyver and Fergus Morgan, both regular AYT contributors, have been nominated for The Stage Crit…
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you're looking for perma…
Richard Twyman has been appointed the new artistic director of English Touring Theatre (ETT). Announced on 22 June, Twyman joins ETT from the Royal Court Theatre, and will take up his new ro…
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you're looking for perma…
A scheme that supports young directors from under-represented backgrounds has announced the winners of its directing placements in theatres across England. The Regional Theatre Young Directo…
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you're looking for perma…
The new editor of AYT is Oxford based journalist and editor, Hannah Marsh. With a wealth of experience in arts feature writing, digital editing on a national newsdesk and strategy work on co…
Christopher Haydon has announced he will be stepping down from the Gate Theatre next year. On 14 June, the Notting Hill theatre revealed that Haydon would leave in January 2017 after a fi…
A theatre that promotes gender equality has set up a series of events profiling the achievements of women in the stage world. Tonic Theatre Celebrates, which begins 22 June at London's…
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you're looking for perma…
The award winning British playwright most famous for Equus and Amadeus, has died aged 90. Peter Shaffer, was born in Liverpool in 1926 and died in Ireland on 6 June after a short illness. Ru…
Incoming Festival has a fantastic range of workshops for emerging artists that are only £3 to attend in Central London. Hear from renowned theatre critic, Lyn Gardner; learn to wrestle on…
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you're looking for perma…
Russian political activist and member of the infamous punk group Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, is performing her theatre debut with a refugee-led theatre company. Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), …
One of the largest and longest running theatre education projects is celebrating its tenth birthday. Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank has brought 150,000 school children to Shakespeare…
One of the England's biggest music and arts festivals has released its theatre line up. Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Suffolk, has announced that Circa, Blind Summit and Les Enfants Terr…
London’s largest fringe festival will be making its third appearance under Waterloo station this month. VAULT Festival is kicking off from the 27 January to 6 March and the multi-art e…
Suspense Festival  takes place at the Little Angel Theatre, and showcases the best puppetry on offer at the moment. A Younger Theatre sat down with Festival Director, Slavka Jovanov…
Oedipus is a notorious story, and its plotline of incest, patricide, exile and blindness have passed into common knowledge through Freud's controversial Oedipal complex. It seems odd then, t…
"Isn't she lovely?" is not what you will leave this performance saying. Women's Hour demolishes any patronising social niceties with flying crumpets, writhing bodies and astute political the…
Suicide is the most common cause of death in men under fifty. Seventy per cent of doctor's queues are filled with patients with mental health issues. One in four people will suffer from a me…
The Latitude audience who caught Kneehigh's latest show, 946, can feel very lucky. Not only was the Theatre Arena completely packed, this wasn't even the final production " "This isn't even …
In a usually empty corner of Suffolk, an atmosphere of revelry, carnival and wonder will be evoked on a summer's weekend this month. Celebrating its tenth anniversary is Latitude, a festival…
If you want to tumble down the rabbit hole this August, there would be few more delightfully British ways to do it than with Will Todd’s Alice in Wonderland. The opera will be ta…
