10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
The Wrong Crowd beautifully choreograph one little girl’s journey of grief, narrated with an excellent score by Isobel Waller-Bridge and some really heart-felt performances. This is a …
It is fascinating to consider the amount of stories that evolve during one single train journey. People may be breaking up, making up or meeting for the first time. They could be happy, upse…
There's something very enticing about watching theatre in the vaults at Waterloo: the dingy chambers filled with passionate pieces of up-and-coming theatre, the makeshift, bottom-numbing woo…
When Charles II, lying on his deathbed, uttered the words "let not poor Nellie starve", he can hardly have imagined that his beloved mistress would be so in vogue 331 years later. But Nell G…
A new, affordable theatre festival in London is launching February, to try and address the rising costs of the arts. Basic Space is bringing together six companies for the event, which takes…
Bitter, cynical, thoroughly discontented; Malcolm Brown doesn't know how to get his life back on track. Once a well-respected journalist, he now writes for a teenage gossip magazine and is s…
Criticising the conventional depiction of the nuclear family, Florian Zeller's The Mother invites the audience to witness the breakdown of the family unit through the eyes of the mother, the…
Celebrating its fourtieth year of breaking boundaries, the London International Mime Festival 2016 offers us a host of contemporary visual theatre in some of the best venues, showcasing new …
Have you ever wanted to go back in time and do things differently? Change your fortunes for the better? That's the question posed to us by Viscera Theatre in their very charming, very funny …
The fast pace and satire of You Tweet My Face Space make it a very funny show to watch. The show makes the (admittedly not very original) observation that we are all social media-obsessed: w…
joue le genre's one-woman show pitches to us that Shakespeare wrote no decent roles for women. But to make matters worse, theatre institutions " from the powerhouses in the West End to our l…
In 2014, Jakop Ahlbom's Lebensraum was one of the most celebrated shows of the London International Mime Festival. At this year's festival, the visionary director has returned with something…
Fear of the unknown " it's an interesting premise for a play. How To Survive A Swarm of Bees, a new piece of writing from Lo/Fall Theatre Company and part of Evolution, the current festival …
It was a sad day for many York theatregoers upon finding out about the closure of The Fleeting Arms, a former drag-bar-turned-pub. It became a pop up performance space that was a hub for new…
Snuff Box Theatre in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester and Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents Weald By Daniel Foxsmith 2 " 27 February, Finborough Theat…
"I make work about the things that keep us awake at night" says Nina Segal on a busy New York morning. The beauty of Skype made the five hour gap unnoticeable. Segal is nervously and excited…
Sir Ian Mckellen has launched the UK's largest ever programme of Shakespeare on film to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death. The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced an inte…
Eclipse by Simon Armitage is the third show that I have worked on as a director. Back at college I was the shadow director for the pantomime Dick Whittington, and more recently, William Shak…
"A big amalgamation of thoughts and ideas and dreams," says writer and director George Mann when I ask him the origin of Light, Theatre Ad Infinitum's dystopian piece returning to London thi…
One of the only programmes of this type in the country, the StoneCrabs Young Directors' Training Programme aims to help train and develop the potential of a group of theatre makers in …
"We hadn't intended to line it up and cash in on the anniversary, but like many instances with Oscar and myself, it just happened." 125 years after the book was published The Picture of Dori…
Kite | Soho Theatre | 26 Jan – 2 Feb 2016 The Wrong Crowd in association Soho Theatre. Part of London International Mime Festival 2016. A lonely girl is taken to live in her …
Just the third show at the Lyric since it re-opened its doors, the direction of the theatre is clear " it's young, it's fresh, it's diverse and all at the heart of Hammersmith. The play o…
To today's liberal, British audience, the notion of being censored and jailed for writing a hedonistic and homoerotic text is an alien concept. However in 1891, when Oscar Wilde published hi…
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