10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Hetain Patel is a visual artist whose performance is themed around American film culture and how it shapes and alters our identities. Following a sold-out performance at Sadler's Wells and a…
If I had to describe Son of Man in one word, it would be shouting. An unbelievable amount of shouting. Considering the space we were in (a small room above a pub in the middle of Stockwell) …
Tim Foley's caustic and darkly comedic play The Dogs of War centres on the taboo subject of mental illness and how it can destroy relationships. A family have moved to rural Northern Ireland…
The Yard’s NOW ’15 festival plays a double bill each night, the acts changing with the weeks. The night's more experienced second act mentors the fledgling first, and you get twi…
Puccini’s La Bohème is a mini masterpiece. It’s concise and relatively short by operatic standards, but also fulfils the criteria of some gorgeous arias and ensembles that in th…
Now This Is Not The End at the Arcola Theatre A play by Rose Lewenstein. Rebecca Targett Productions in association with Raising Silver Theatre. 3 June – 27 June “…
One of the biggest collections of festivals in country is taking place this summer. The Royal Greenwich Festivals are a collection of events, running until August 31. This includes the Green…
When Words Dictate had potential. Really, it did. The concept of the space between different translations as well as words being the vehicle for our communication between one another was, I …
When Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo presented a performance at a Japanese dance festival in 1959 in which a young man copulated with a chicken and, debatably, suffocated it between his legs…
Seeing a new Eastern European play in the heart of London was quite refreshing; The Harvest is the UK debut of Belarusian playwright Pavel Pryazhko, and his writing brings an atmosphere that…
Crime-based plays are not a common genre anymore. Since the likes of Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and James Bond hit out cinema and TV screens, we have craved more elaborate plot lines an…
There has been self-referential comedy around almost as long as scripted comedy itself. From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to modern TV shows like 30 Rock, and even blockbusters like 22 Jump…
Initially I was somewhat sceptical of seeing The Beaux' Stratagem; on the surface it looked to be another standard middle-class male hunt for the prettiest and richest bride "Â cue a slaps…
In the vast folds of popular theatre, there is little doubt there will always be a place for that well-loved and timeless genre: the farce. With affairs and arguments, slapstick and sillines…
Image: Barbican Theatre The largest theatre and live performance festival ever seen in Plymouth has been launched this week. Plymouth Fringe Festival is showcasing over one hundred acts i…
I personally really look forward to fringe venues that are above a pub, as I feel like there is so much charm involved with the homely touches and intimate vibe, and much to my approval, thi…
And Then There Were None is one of Agatha Christie's most popular and widely-read crime novels, and one of her most difficult conundrums to crack. It has been adapted for film, TV, radio and…
There is a line by the English writer Geoff Dyer that suggests no foreigner ever really lives in Paris, they just pass through: "You may spend ten years passing through, but essentially you …
Velvet Trumpet, a theatre company based in South London, commits itself to delivering plays that feature the unexamined comedy in everyday life. So it created Soggy Brass, a revue show of…
"Some things are inherited without question. Like silence " it's a code." So says one of the extraordinary female performers in Nirbhaya. This play centres on the true story of the horrifyin…
Sneaking into the theatre at the beginning of a show after running late is never a fun experience. No one wants to be the one that gets picked on in the audience, but we inevitably got ribbe…
The winners at a prestigious musical theatre awards ceremony have been announced. Erin Doherty won the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (SSSSPOTY) at the Garrick The…
The Globe. Nothing major. Just a little piece of national heritage. A symbol of our historical culture, too proud for a space on the Monopoly board, but on the tourist map the world over. Ne…
Little Venice is one of those places in London that feels like a romantic dream "Â something completely remote from the buzz and stress of an energetic city. It does feel like walking on t…
