10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Who is Loren O’Brien? Is she famous? Should we just pretend to know her while we clap excitedly, waiting for her entrance? These questions are asked and answered by Loren O’Brien…
We start with instructions about our headphones. Each audience member has a pair. And then with a clunk, we're enveloped into the pitch black. "It's a normal reaction to an abnormal situatio…
The language of John Godber's latest work Shafted! is simple and conversational. Godber confessed, during the post-show discussion, that this is the first draft of his play because he wants …
"You see a lot of TV shows about doctors, and the glamorised idea of what people think they do. I actually wanted to know and show people what they really do." Rounds is a devised theatre…
The title One Under makes this performance sound bleaker then it is. I was expecting a one-women monologue about the trauma of her father committing suicide. But instead I got an interactive…
One of my favourite things about theatre is its ability to play host to an absolute multitude of stories, whether old or new, and to reinvent how they appear in such a live, raw format. This…
English National Opera’s new production of Norma marks the first time they have performed Bellini’s famous work in their 85-year history. Directed by Christopher Alden, the…
We hear the words, ‘never again’ many times and yet we still live in an age where war is constantly looming over us. Valiant, based on the book Valiant Women in War and Exile by …
We enter the old, disused Victorian house and our photos are taken by the door while Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is playing in the background, juxtaposing with the almost depressi…
The deputy artistic director of the National Theatre (NT) has said they have a ‘responsibility’ to be diverse, after launching their new season earlier this month. It includes a …
It's not too bold to say that The Encounter is out of this world. Simon McBurney's one-man show is simply like nothing you've ever experienced. And it is a total experience " it does feel li…
A sold-out Barbican Hall welcomed Kodo for an anniversary performance and premiere in one. The Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble celebrates 35 years of worldwide touring since bursting onto the…
Packing thought-provoking theatre into parcels of just forty-five minutes, the Bridewell Theatre serves up lunchbox-sized slices of the arts. Cradled between office blocks and museums, with …
At a time when London is abuzz with praise of The Father and The Mother, Florian Zeller’s twin portraits of parents losing their grip on reality, another show about dementia " albei…
After the success of Robert Icke's Oresteia and 1984, it's no wonder that the anticipation around the Almeida's latest classic adaptation, of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, has been high. It is a sl…
The award-winning Theatre North company brings a daring one-person adaptation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest to the Jermyn Street Theatre after performing around the UK and Europe. The pe…
George Orwell's seminal 1945 novel Animal Farm is not the easiest text to dramatise – it's crammed with metaphors, ideologies and satire that only Orwell himself could write. In any…
"But the theatre isn't glamorous", I've heard my friends say countless of times. "Film is so much more powerful, naturalistic and international." Don't get me wrong, film is all of those thi…
Hundreds of young people will help to produce a large theatre and arts event across London. The Third Tricycle Takeover will feature over 50 events, screenings, performances and masterclasse…
No question about it, Angie Darcy sure can sing. As Janis Joplin in Full Tilt, she mixes rock and blues with country in a two-hour concert of fairly epic proportions. She also has a great ha…
Lyle Kessler's most famous play received critical praise from the off when it premiered in 1983. A 2013 Broadway revival starring Tom Sturridge, Ben Foster, and Alec Baldwin received two Ton…
It's no news that arts funding often seems like a wishful hallucination for emerging artists. So in these often disheartening times for young creatives, it's inspiring when you find work tha…
The word Opera might go hand in hand with Grandiose. It's lavish, it's colossal, the magnitude of the production design matched only by the level of drama onstage. So when you strip all of t…
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, …
An homage to Film Noir that doesn't digress into a parody, Hardboiled is a dynamic love letter to the great works of the 1940s. Noir is perhaps best typified by Raymond Chandler's imagined d…
