10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Last night I was treated to one of the most delightful shows I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. Gigi is a play based on a French novel written in the early 1940s, which on the face of i…
Olivier-award winner show La Soirée returns to London for the festive season, amid Christmas shows and candle-lit concerts, proving to be the perfect alternative show for un-Christmassy Lon…
You know what I thought while in my workshops today? I could really do with seeing some psychologically realistic drama about a bunch of people condemned to die for witchcraft. Okay, so I di…
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, …
The shortlist has been announced for the 2016 Arts Foundation Children's Theatre Award, which gives candidates the chance to win £10,000. Dancer and choreographer Liz Clark, spoken word a…
Broadcasted theatre is a concept that has been floating around the scenes for a few years now and is a very modern interpretation of theatre. Broadcasting live or pre-recorded theatre allows…
When Cio-Cio-San, also known as Butterfly, took her life the gory way at the end of G. Puccini's Madama Butterfly, her heartbreaking story seemed to have finished for good. However, performe…
Lordy do I want to sit on the big guy’s lap and get a big sack of treats now. It’s only the beginning of November but watching Broadway’s latest export, Elf it may as…
At some point, all of us will find ourselves languishing in the waiting department of A&E, six hours and thirty coffees away from bellowing at some poor nurse. As a nation we seem perfec…
It is rumoured that the character of the Dodo in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a caricature of Lewis Carroll himself, created as a consequence of Carroll's stammer and hence h…
The diversity of culture in Britain today is very different to the world that Anita & Me is set in; the 1970s Black Country was much less culturally rich than 40 years on. Meera Syal's s…
We meet on the steps of St John's Church, all gathering quietly with only a few murmurs of guessing scuttling between groups. We are all slightly clueless to the situation but know that this…
We cannot deny Xanadu is a cult film, in a so-bad-it's-good way. Career-ending for many, it was supposed to be the next Grease for Olivia Newton-John (and one of the final guest appearances …
The Hairy Ape, currently playing at the Old Vic, is indeed a strange beast. An expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill, it follows Yank (Bertie Carvel) in his rallying cry against a world that …
Three words, everyone: Kneehigh. Are. Back. After entertaining and enthralling audiences the world over with their stellar range of shows, they're back with a brand new modern fable for our …
 Even as an English Literature graduate I sometimes find it hard to keep on top of marvellous performance or a combination of the two, The Devil Is An Ass at The Rose Playhouse has a deli…
In the National Theatre’s latest figuration of As You Like It, Shakespeare’s most well-loved greenworld comedy becomes a pastoral retreat from the bright corporate drills of mode…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby has long captured the imagination of artists in all different fields, with adaptations of the story showing up in drama, dance, film, opera, radi…
The title of this particular showcase sounds like a mantra that many creative visionaries have pledged to live their lives by. As Britain's oldest dance company, it is not out of place in de…
The finalists for the 2015/16 Perfect Pitch Awards have been announced. Perfect Pitch, along with the Theatre Royal Stratford East, have given four teams the chance to win the £12,000 fun…
Belarus Free Theatre present Staging a Revolution, a festival of performances and discussions in London from 2-14 November featuring some of their most acclaimed original productions, reinvi…
The Rose of Jericho is the latest work by playwright Alex Martinez, and is a brutal and honest biography of an ex-army soldier. In the form of an aggressive and unapologetic one-man play, Ke…
When we started working with puppets all the way back in 2009, I never thought we would end up setting up a company. Myself and the other Apples are predominantly performer-trained and it wa…
Kneehigh Theatre is one of the biggest names in the industry; they're famed for their unique mix of storytelling, music, physical theatre and captivating narratives, along with the way they …
Pretty Ugly started as YouTube experiment, questioning the growing trend of young girls posting videos asking the online community to rate them based on their looks. In her show, Louise Orwi…
