10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Image: Shutterstock A new competition has been launched to find the best unknown theatre critic in the country. The Stage Critic Search 2015 launched on April 30, and aims to find the best u…
I sat in the intimate Old Red Lion Theatre waiting excitedly to be transported to the Irish Midlands. There is artificial grass under my feet, the scenography already a spectacle, and all I …
There is always a high sense of inquisitiveness when going to watch yet another adaptation of Miss Julie:Â will this be a typical rendition of Strindberg's classic or a contemporary and in…
The Merchant of Venice has been a long-serving vessel of discomfort for critics and audiences alike, unsure whether the play fuels anti-Semitic sentiment or provides an on-going platform for…
The National Theatre. The. National. Theatre. A title heavy with the loom of expectation. No pressure, Everyman. Well, maybe a little bit of pressure for the National's new captain, Artistic…
The Verb ‘To Love’Â is a universal love story. The writer wants to make it clear that, “Although the protagonists are gay, this is not a gay play as such; each and every …
The Gate's always wonderfully intimate space is this time transformed into a rebel military base in war-torn Liberia, in director Caroline Byrne's accomplished staging of Danai Gurira's Ecli…
The Etcetera Theatre in Camden is another fringe venue that I happen to hold a candle for, once you get past the on-the-seedy-side pub that it crowns. I love that it hosts a new writing fest…
Image by Actorul at Flickr Creative Commons. By default I'm a director, but occasionally I enjoy working the other side of the fence, on the stage. Doing both can actually be very beneficial…
When I first moved to London, all I had were three things: two flatmates who worked in Camden, a cat, who they'd apparently adopted during a wild night out in Clapham, and 'Chester'. As time…
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, …
Image: Dade Freeman The biggest fringe festival in England kicks off today (May 1), with a number of new venues opening and shows starting in Brighton. The Brighton Fringe runs from May 1 to…
Whether it stirs memories from your school days, highlights your concerns as a parent or re-awakens your more nightmarish days working in a school, there isn’t one person who won’…
You'd have to be some Victor Meldrew-Ebenezer Scrooge hybrid (or perhaps The Guardian's prominent theatre critic) not to absolutely adore Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith. Sean Holmes's…
After winning the LOST Theatre's One Act Festival in 2014, an expanded version of By Virtue Fall appears at The Space for an extremely limited run this week. While approaching a very interes…
Emteaz Hussain's Blood stops off at the Soho Theatre on its UK tour, after its premiere in Coventry last month. A kind of Romeo and Juliet for the modern age (but so much more than a reworki…
Nobody wants to look like a dope. Audiences mulling over the title of Daniel MacIvor's play may suspect a pretense; what 'it' we are supposed to be 'in on'. Instead of turning confused to yo…
We enter straight into the dance floor of a lively gay bar in the year 2000, around about the time that this musical by Jonathan Harvey and the Pet Shop Boys was written and originally stage…
The collective echoes of King Charles III and A View from the Bridge still reverberate strongly around the walls of Wyndham's Theatre: American Buffalo certainly has a big stage to fil…
Beyond Caring by Alexander Zeldin, written through devising with the company. Presented by The Yard Theatre 28 April " 16 May at the Temporary Theatre, National Theatre ★★★
Image by Richard Davenport. "The play reflects a lot of concern about the way that our society can be 'dehumanising' and can be have a very narrow, reductive view of how the world should wor…
Viennese musicologist Wolfgang Schaufler said: "to experience the music of Georg Friedrich Haas means letting go… making a journey to an unknown destination" and Haas certainly takes u…
"We're not alone", says theatre maker Yolanda Mercy, as she describes her one woman play, On the Edge of Me. "Even if you have those days where you feel scared, sad or just don't want to go …
Image: London Contemporary Dance School, Hugo Glendinning The UK's leading dance schools have hit back at criticism over their training methods from prominent dance companies. The Akram …
Image by Richard Davenport Product by Mark Ravenhill was first performed by the writer himself as a one-man show at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play has now been revived by direc…
