10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
What Idle Motion does so cleverly is it delicately interweaves different perspectives of the same story. Those perspectives come in a myriad of forms from the narrative to how they manipulat…
Opening Night by Les SlovaKs was a glorious, emotional, funny, beautifully messy hour of dance in the Purcell Room at Southbank Centre. Five male dancers and a violinist waited on a bare …
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 perma…
Bad Jews is quite the title. It gives you just the right amount of wince to get you interested " a play that's playing hard to get. It also seems to have an accessible whiff of self-deprecat…
Princess Ida at the Finborough Theatre is the first professional production of this operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan in over twenty years. As someone not versed in the history of Gilbert and…
The current season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds is shaping up to be brilliant. There's all sorts on offer, and if you pop down the stairs to the Playhouse's Courtyard Theatre you…
I love the Unicorn Theatre. It is a space that has finely mastered a skill. A skill that theatre for young people does not mean theatre dumbed down. It is a venue that assumes a prior knowle…
With the John Boyne fable being an apical novel of bestseller summits across the globe, and the subsequent film adaptation achieving great salutations at the box office, director Joe Murphy'…
Sam Holcroft's new play posits that everyone has coping strategies or 'rules' by which they live their life. In Rules for Living, we watch a family try to get through what becomes a more and…
Image credit: Mark Hamilton This month Scottish Opera presents KidO, an interactive musical experience for young children. Acclaimed children's theatre director, Lu Kemp and director of Educ…
It's a bloody terrifying prospect – joining a cast of actors who all know each other and have worked with each other before. It's like a first day of school mixed in with some first-ti…
Image credit:Â John Watts Dynamic duo Becka McFadden and Scheherazaad of Beautiful Confusion Collective met whilst studying at Goldsmiths University " McFadden humorously described themsel…
Derby Theatre is probably the only theatre in the UK situated inside the city's busiest shopping centre. Right there amongst the high-street chains, market stalls, restaurants and daily hubb…
Image Credit: Chris Smith/Out of Chicago Auditions are scary. Whether you're an A-Lister or just starting out in the theatre world, auditions are the most stressful point in a production…
Grab your flares and your disco balls, because Saturday Night Fever is back in the UK six years after it last toured the country. This new production aims to maximise both the grit and joy o…
While the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, creates some brilliant new work and adaptations of classics (their most recent production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya standing testament to my state…
On reflection it seems strange that no one had thought of the Emerging Dancer award until six years ago. Finally there is a chance for dancers hidden away in the corps de ballet to have a ch…
Entering into the black box space, we are met by three downtrodden figures. They sit crumpled, staring into space. There is little real set, bar a rarely-used hat stand. But the ceiling is l…
As we take our seats in the New Wimbledon Theatre, before we've even had time to take off our jackets, my friend and I are accosted by the bright beaming face of a woman in a silver jumpsuit…
I'm a little puzzled as to just why Harvey has been revived at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. It's a sweet and gentle story, but it is also notable in its total lack of relevance or significan…
Shaftesbury Avenue: a street that blinds you with bright lights, mighty signs and five stars. You get bedazzled by the offerings and bashed by tourists happily taking 20Â minutes to walk t…
Image: courtesy of mytheatremates.com New, audience voted theatre awards have been launched, that aim to celebrate often over looked categories in the arts world. The Also Recognised Awa…
Over the past year, Sadler's Wells has been running an initiative called =dance ("equal dance") to promote disabled, deaf and inclusive dance work. Equation is a showcase of its highlights. …
Dead Centre's acclaimed production Lippy is a nightmarish production that teeters on the brink of comprehension. 14Â years ago four female relatives in a small Irish town decided to die. T…
A London theatre school is launching the UK's first Master's degree in the writing of musicals. Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts is starting the MA in Musical Theatre, which the organisers …
