10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
It's been over one year since I started at the University of York " how fast did that go by?! When I first started, the Department of Theatre, Film and Television's theatre society Platform …
New technology could make the theatre more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing audiences. CaptionCue was tested at the National Theatre's Temporary Theatre earlier this year, with 78% of…
Donald Margulies Pulitzer Prize winning play Dinner With Friends is a domestic kind of masterpiece. Depicting, intricately and poetically, the ripple effect of divorce and the vulnerability …
With so many potential topics for theatre to explore, there really is carte blanche nowadays for a writer to paint the canvas of their work. So many plays look to tackle deeper intellectual …
Simon Stephens' plays are often hailed as dark analyses of what it means to be human, and can be raw, vulgar and shocking at times " apart from his adaptation of The Curious Incident of the …
The world of fashionistas and fine art devotees will find themselves hungry for a glimpse of innovative fashion designer Hussein Chalayan's first theatre piece Gravity Fatigue at Sadler's We…
This evening I witnessed a piece of history, an untold piece of history, a heartbreaking piece of history. The Screenwriter’s Daughter is factually based on the lives of American scree…
David Hare's The Moderate Soprano is, on the surface, a play about the construction (literally and artistically) of Glyndebourne opera house. Within that, it charmingly incorporates a side-a…
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, …
One of the biggest theatrical events of the year, Lyndsey Turner's Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, has been the most talked-about production in London since tickets sold out just minu…
The potential problem of an hour and a half worth of monologue as a piece of entertainment is self-evident: it can be one-dimensional. It creates an insular atmosphere that demands a subtly …
Being informed that a show you’re about to see is unsuitable for under 13s may just be one of the worst things one could ever hear. I mean Signs was bloody horrific. But not I. O…
Whether you loved it, hated it, or didn't see it at all, it's clear to say that Urinetown was a huge hit when it was showing in London's West End. This means that any other production by Gre…
In a cross-cultural world, it can be hard to define what or where is home. Is home where you are born? Where you live in this moment? Or is it where your roots are? And what does that even m…
A theatre festival that aims to promote emerging playwrights in South East London, is now welcoming submissions. Write Now at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre (BJST) has premièred the work …
Raymondo is a spoken word story woven over the course of just over an hour by writer and performer Annie Siddons. It charts the exploits Raymondo and his younger brother, Sparky, who have be…
Into The Hoods: Remixed is an upbeat family show, with an attractively relaxed and inviting quality. It is a revival, and first played in 2006 as the first ever hip-hop dance show in the Wes…
Husbands & Sons simultaneously tells the stories from three of D.H. Lawrence's plays; chopped, re-ordered and enacted side-by-side on the Dorfman stage at the National Theatre. Lawrence'…
Crushed is set amidst the student protests of 2010, in which between 30-50,000 protesters marched against the Tory-Lib Dem government proposal to raise tuition fees from three to nine thousa…
Suspense Festival  takes place at the Little Angel Theatre, and showcases the best puppetry on offer at the moment. A Younger Theatre sat down with Festival Director, Slavka Jovanov…
Why is the work of learning disabled artists under-represented in the wider arts world "Â and why does this matter? This was the question driving yesterday's Creative Minds conference, a g…
Despite the seeming obsession the British public has with animals, I personally have never been a fan. Yet nowadays a modern British high street seems incomplete without the image of a coiff…
Ghost Opera | 27-31 October | New Diorama Theatre Award-winning Fellswoop Theatre present Ghost Opera; a mesmeric two-hander, spoken and sung, accompanied by a string quartet and d…
As one of the world's most well-known operas, it is strange to think that Carmen was so underappreciated in its day; Bizet sadly passed away before witnessing the true magnitude of his most …
The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment by Michael Pinchbeck features a guest performer for a 30-minute performance, as part of the Frequency Festival 2015. I was impressed by both th…
