10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
The Suicide (a comedy) | National Theatre | From 6 April Things are getting tough for Sam. No job, benefits stopped and stuck in a tiny flat with his girlfriend's mum. The pressure…
The new season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse is well under way, and it's shaping up to be an awesome one. Currently residing in the Quarry Theatre is their production of Charles Dickens's …
What a bloody pickle. You're having an affair with your best friend's wife, sneaking around hotel rooms, being all naughty and ringing in sick to work like you're part-time at Greggs againÂ…
Harts Theatre Company's inaugural Young Writers Festival sees five burgeoning playwrights from ages 11 – 25 pitted (to an audience's vote) against five critically acclaimed playwrights…
It is hard to define this hour spent at the theatre. If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me doesn't fit into any specific type of show. You can call it a gig, a happening, an event, or many other things, I…
Political thrillers on stage are seldom seen. You get your average locked room drama, but throw politics in there and we're usually talking BBC miniseries. In order to really feel the weight…
A few weeks ago I was chatting with my mother when she expressed a tinge of disappointment that none of us ‘kids’ had ever wanted to ‘do what your father does’. She i…
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 permanent, …
Part of the Sprint Festival 2016, Don't Turn the Lights On is a devised piece on teenager Alex's struggle with gender identity. Its topical subject matter, was dealt with both sensitively an…
The phrase 'Quiet Violence' is one coined by writer and performer Sophie Rose to describe all those little things we do to ourselves to make our lives just that bit harder. We buy cheap toil…
F.A.N.Y follows the story of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (aka the F.A.N.Y), a group of female volunteers who drive motor ambulances and tend to the wounded in World War I. It follows thei…
Richard Jones' new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov opens with the stylistic murder of young Dmitry, the only obstacle between Godunov and the titular character's chance to become Ts…
Teenagers can be pretty nasty. You may have gathered that from your own school experience or at least seen a few films or read enough fiction to know about a huge spectrum of teenage persona…
Gatecrash by Zest Theatre puts you at the centre of the party. A rehearsal room at the Lyric theatre is transformed into birthday boy Sam’s living room. His parents are away and he is …
The world premiere of any new show automatically brings with it a certain level of anticipation and excitement. The world premiere of a new musical featuring star performers, going up at a l…
"It was the summer, it was still light, a beautiful day. I stopped and walked part of the way home, and I decided to take a short cut, which was down a street that's not very safe basically,…
Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars. The RAF's stirring motto could also serve as an epigram to define Rebecca Crookshank's life, as indeed it is meant to in Whiskey Tango Fox…
As we enter the theatre, a performer dressed in chorister's robes repetitively enters and exits the performance space, on each entry lighting a candle placed on a centre-stage lectern. He co…
One of London's most historic theatrical quarters has announced plans to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. A number of events, walks and performances have been annou…
My Beautiful Black Dog discusses the topic of mental health exactly as it should be discussed. It is imperfect, fun and beautifully honest. Currently being performed at the Royal Festival Ha…
Three minutes after Luce has started, the audience is already laughing and amazed by the incredible pace of the initial dialogue. Yet fifteen minutes later, the spectators are in a curious s…
Buster Keaton at the Hollywood Canteen | Space Arts Centre | 15-19 March Buster Keaton at The Hollywood Canteen (as told by Orson Welles) is a new play by Mike Carter. It imagines …
Folio Theatre Company works with emerging writers to develop new plays with real issues at their heart. Folio works with partner charities in order to engage with those whose stories we tell…
I've said it before, I'll say it again: I love pub theatres. There is something inherently butterfly inducing about walking through a pub full of beer drenched football fans, up a staircase …
A festival set up to tackle the 'lack of opportunities' for female performers in theatre has launched in London. Women in the West End is a month long celebration of female creativity, ba…
