10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
'Tell him that you're never gonna leave him, tell him that you're always gonna love him'… And so goes the legendary hit by The Exciters. Hearing it, among others, as I was waiting for The …
Mike Leigh, celebrated film director and self-proclaimed Gilbert & Sullivan fan, leads English National Opera’s latest venture into the world of G&S. The Pirates of Penzance is…
I entered The Albany with curiosity, anticipation and a fair amount of scepticism. When we think of hypnosis, we usually think of a man in a shiny suit with a top hat and a pair of gloves; a…
"Oh, Cathleen ni Houlihan, your way's a thorny way!" In director Wayne Jordan's staging of Sean O'Casey's 1923 tragicomedy, the pedlar Seumas Shields (David Ganly) mentions the mythological …
Avenue Q tells the story of a young man named Princeton, fresh-faced and naïve to the real world, and his journey through the trials and tribulations of love, life and finding a purpose t…
An award-winning photographer returns to the country that made him famous. 20 years previously, in the midst of the civil war, he shot a photo of a girl in an explosion that captured the ess…
Sat in the understated Waterloo East Theatre, when the concealed keyboard began to play, I felt a pinch of dread at the prospect of a musical. But I am happy to say that I was pleasant…
The Lonely Soldier Monologues by Helen Benedict tells significant events from seven women’s lives who served in the US Armed Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2003- 2006. Benedi…
Szymanowski’s short but gripping opera Król Roger comes to the Royal Opera House for the first time. Composed in 1926, the work has only begun to be programmed by major opera hou…
Gods Are Fallen and All Safety Gone is a gentle exploration of a mother and daughter relationship, played with deftness and tact by Sean Campion (Mother) and Scott Turnbull (Daughter). The g…
My first year here at York is coming to an end, but that's not the only exciting thing happening " it's the York International Shakespeare Festival! Over the course of the festival, loads of…
"I feel as if I’m losing all of my leaves… I don’t understand what’s happening any more". The Tricycle Theatre is a converted music and dance hall, with a big cinema and …
The first rule of Das Spiel, or in fact any immersive theatre, is that you must enter with an open mind, stay relaxed and be a willing player " after all, the game found you, didn't it? I…
Rambert dance company is back in its home of the Sadler’s Wells theatre with a new triple bill. Featuring the London Premiere of ‘Frames’, the revival of ‘Four Ele…
Beyond Bollywood, the new show filling Lloyd Webber’s expansive Palladium, promises to be a spectacle that it’s audience has never seen before. But whilst it’s energetic da…
Hay Fever is over 90 years old and, unfortunately, it shows. Coward's comedy of errors about a dysfunctional family's disastrous attempt to entertain guests was not even that popular when it…
Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O’Neill. At the Young Vic until 23 May. Directed by Natalie Abrahami. Eugene O'Neill's warmest, most delightful play is an authentic portrait of a Connecti…
Simon Munnery: Fylm School Monday 18th May at Soho Theatre “Where comedy meets maverick cinema” Simon Munnery turns host and director to introduce his DIY fylm-making technology …
Etcetera Theatre is in so tiny a space that you wouldn't know it existed unless you were looking for it; hidden away on the top floor of a pub, we elbowed our way past raucous drunkards and …
Love & Rabbits is a perfectly precious poetic piece about love, rabbits, and so much more. Performed at the intimate studio space of the Etcetera Theatre above The Oxford Arms pub in Cam…
The votes have been cast, the seats have been delegated but London Theatre Workshop's citizens still have one vote left. A skilful six-person cast dazzles these citizens with an abundance of…
The Angry Brigade were a part of Britain's counter-culture in the early 70s. They began as a bubbling and angry undercurrent of a society that was ordered and suppressive. A culture that was…
If monsters aren't real then why do we tell so many stories about them? When the menacing shadow of actor Peter Coonan stretches large across the opening of Ross Dungan's new play for the 15…
The People Vs Democracy is billed as a “live action game about power and politics in the UK”. Taking place in the free-thinking surrounds of the Free Word Centre, it claims to re…
Photo credit: Farrow Creatives Being out in the communities around the city is absolutely fundamental to what the Playhouse is about for me. It's important because I believe we have…
