10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
A year on and Deborah Bruce's The Distance takes to the stage again in a two venue production this October through till December. AYT sat down with Bruce to talk about her play’s re…
Thousands of pounds worth of grants have been handed out to young artists across the South East of the UK. No Strings Attached, from Farnham Maltings, awards artists from the South Eas…
A new festival dealing with the relationship between in the Middle East, North Africa and the West has launched in the UK. Sutton Theatres are hosting Marhaba Magreb, a celebration of North …
Charity and theatre company The Big House enables care leavers to create theatre. Telling the fascinating, surprising history of Rio Cinema in the immersive Electric, the theatre company has…
Feeling the pulse of new writing and presenting this generation's exciting, emerging theatre makers, the Bush Theatre's annual festival RADAR takes on its fourth year and dips into the theme…
Triumphantly delivered with energy and pride Beryl is a northern masterpiece. Let me begin by expressing how wonderfully refreshing it is to see regional theatre giving London a run for i…
I have a heart monitor stuck onto my chest and an incredibly realistic baby doll in my arms. This is The Body, Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari’s innovative production, featuring live-fee…
My home county of Yorkshire is home to some of the most beautiful scenery in England. West Yorkshire in particular is home to the moody Yorkshire Moors, also known as Brontë country, w…
I am filled with admiration when watching how the relationships between men and women functioned in the time before colour television. It must have been indescribably difficult for the w…
The final instalment in Shakespeare's tetralogy of English kings, Henry V arrives at the Barbican just in time for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, which saw the young king …
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, …
Liz Stevenson, a young budding director from Lancashire, is currently gearing up for her directorial debut at none other than The Young Vic, where her production of Barrie Keefe's Barbarians…
Oscar Wilde's plays are timeless classics, and have been making audiences laugh for well over a hundred years. Now, there's a new tour of perhaps his greatest play, The Importance of Being E…
Image via bjaglin on Flickr. Dublin's Abbey Theatre, considered Ireland's national theatre, hosted a meeting last Thursday that finally gave voice to years of frustration for women…
Image: Katherine Soper – Winner of the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. This year the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting celebrates its tenth anniversary, and I am lucky enough to…
Not for the faint of heart, Dry Land, currently running at the Jermyn Street Theatre, delves into the real lives of two teenage girls in Florida, exposing with biting honesty just how confus…
I really cannot deal with hats but, hypothetically speaking, if someone stole mine I’d like to think I’d hunt them down to the ends of the earth and destroy them. I Want My Ha…
The Illusionists is an excellent alternative to a family pantomime trip this Christmas. A feel good show, full of dramatic flair and tricks to make the audiences gasp, it showcases tal…
A careers fair aimed at those looking for non-performance jobs in theatre kicks off this week. Theatrecraft is celebrating it's tenth year, and it takes place at the Royal Opera House in …
A Lincoln theatre group are inviting young people to a teenage house party with Silent Disco headphones, as part of a new immersive theatre experience. Following a successful tour in 2014…
Simon Longman's Sparks is a play of two halves. Ish. Kind of. One half, the first, is marginally longer than the second, though seems even longer than that, as it is action free for the most…
Two of the last female artistic directors (AD) in the London fringe theatre scene have announced they are stepping down from their roles. Rebecca Atkinson-Lord and Rachel Briscoe are leav…
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, …
This newest opera by Georg Friedrich Haas can be described as little other than sombre. Embracing the idea of life and death, it tells of a character " Johannes, played by Christoph Pohl …
Last night was the first time I'd seen a play entirely in Russian; it was also my first time seeing Belarus Free Theatre perform. It was not, however, the first time I had heard of the under…
