10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
A Younger Theatre is back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 2015 with its Edinburgh Young Critics Scheme. Below you'll find all the reviews from our young critics compiled by star r…
Perfect Ghost exposes the secrets and sadness behind the glamorous façade of Hollywood. The show tells the story of Marni Nixon, a ghost singer of the 1950s. Unbeknownst to many, Nixon wa…
As a play and as a performance there are elements of Splendour that I have not seen bettered this year. At the curtain call, I found myself with a reflex-like conviction in its quality. My r…
Image: Hugo Glendinning Tributes have poured in, after dancer Jonathan Ollivier died in a motorcycle crash in London. The 38-year-old from Nottingham was involved in a collision in Clerkenwe…
As a huge fan of Tommy Wiseau's drama/black comedy, The Room: The Musical is my new favourite production at the Edinburgh Fringe. Packing all the most famous parts of the film into a hilario…
Part of Camden's annual fringe festival, …and Ephgrave sees comedian David Ephgrave taking on his first solo show without the aid of his double act partner, Glyn Doggett. It had moments of…
Most popularly associated with Disney's 1940 film, Pinocchio actually started life in 1883 in Italy as The Adventures of Pinocchio and was written in serial form. It is the author Carlo Coll…
Close Up is a dance, physical theater and Circus show from award winning company, Circa. It’s chock full of amazing acrobatics, dance and circus tricks " things to make you laugh, thin…
Attempting to pull off two Sarah Kane plays at the Fringe- that's brave. Now what if I mention that they both have the same cast? Fear No Colours have guts, you have to give them that. Clean…
Bonkers fun for anyone who's ever wondered who they really are, If I Were Me follows a socially awkward copywriter named Philip's (Nasi Voutsas) attempts to find himself and change his life …
An oak tree. A hypnotist. An actor, who's never seen nor read the script, playing a grieving father. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary and having featured more than 300 different a…
The Stolen Inches is without a doubt the greatest (and most middle class) episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians ever produced. Exploring the disparity between public and private demeano…
So here's the deal: you've got a troop of actors and an energetic compere. The audience shouts out what they want to see in terms of location, a couple of characters, opening number and name…
Barely two minutes into Mancunian Rhapsondy, a “true-ish, jew-ish musical comedy” and BAM, there's the Hitler joke. Not the most subtle reference, but best to get it out the way …
A cautionary tale for the age of Buzzfeed, The Red Chair Players' Clickbait attempts to "explore the subtle ways a person can be manipulated without knowing it". When a peer needs to raise $…
Fusing together elements of Eastern and Western physical theatre and dance, Ryukyu Cirque's Clown Macbeth is a compelling and polished take on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Director and performer M…
In 1860s San Francisco, a penniless man named Joshua Norton declared himself The Emperor of America. The city treated him as such: paying imaginary taxes, printing his declarations in the ne…
Here's a confession: any hint of puppets in plays tends to make me pretty cynical. Maybe it's the awful image of sock puppets that jumps to mind, maybe it's some traumatic experience I've bl…
Writer and director Nick Myles weaves elements of his own life into the four stories presented in Mistaken, sharing with us snapshots of four recognisably human lives. Hidden Bell Product…
About a third of the way into Girl From Nowhere, Jeannie (Victoria Rigby) picks up her guitar, and finally lets rip that bluesy rock and roll she loves. From her box filled attic we are tran…
"I'm Donny Stixx, the boy with tricks". Philip Ridley's latest one-man play, a companion to 2013's Dark Vanilla Jungle, sees a volatile young magician (Sean Michael Verey) performing his lat…
Do we stereotype gay men? Do we think we understand the conventions of a gay relationship? Are there even conventions to a gay relationship? F*cking Men explores and opposes what many may th…
 “Just leave it all to me. I'm going to sort EVERYTHING out. Sort out this nation like an unruly sock drawer at half-term…”  Lotta Quizeen is here to save the UK from nat…
Staging famous plays from well-known playwrights can often be a double edged sword for smaller theatres. It can attract a bigger crowd who will often attend works that they have heard of and…
Banjo Man is a perfect concept searching for some finer execution. This one-woman show is the brainchild of Quina Chapman, an achingly talented, honey-voiced performer who takes us on a tour…
