10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
A tale of two ex-lovers reminiscing about days past may emit the slight eggy whiff of cliché, but this is certainly not the case with upcoming playwright Jenna May Hobbs's Captured, a truly…
The ethos of The Faction theatre company is to innovate and reinvigorate classics, inflating the old and tired with a new and stimulating lease of life. If that's your ethos then what bigger…
Image from Save Our Hippodrome Facebook page Developers of an old theatre in Brighton that was going to be turned into a multiplex cinema have pulled out, throwing the plans into jeopard…
Henry VI: Part I, II and III are some of Shakespeare's greatest but most challenging history plays. Lasting about nine hours in performance, Henry VI is a long affair that requires some stam…
The world of reality TV is one which is often satirised and picked apart by artists and performers as an exploration of modern intrigue in the personal lives of others. In this new work, fro…
Swan Lake is perhaps the most well-known of all classical ballets. Since debuting at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1877, Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece has been performed by countless co…
Everyone is familiar with George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, but not everyone may know that Shaw's fascination with women extended to some of his other works, such as Village Wooing and How…
“You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” The tumultuous relationship between screen icons Bette Davis and Joan Cra…
I arrive at Graeae's Bradbury studios to talk to Amit Sharma about their Write to Play scheme. Graeae are pretty much unique " a theatre company run by Deaf and disabled artists that creates…
Photo credit Helen Murray Alex Brown began directing plays whilst studying at the University of Sussex and since graduating his career has flourished. Currently he is Associate Director on G…
Image by Carol Rosegg Director Clare Lizzimore tried to keep to the swift and beautiful aggression promised by the title of her latest production, Bull. After runs in Sheffield and New York …
"Method acting is about reality of truth brought into performance." David Bennett As an actor you have the power to make an impact. A common thread in films featuring notable method acting p…
Image of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Kevin Berne Note: This list is by no means representative of all of American theatre during the past year, but instead a compilation of some remark…
If you're not feeling quite Christmassy enough yet, get yourself " and any small people in your life " down to the Tobacco Factory. With a jolly evil baddie, incompetent side-kicks, true lov…
After a season of diverse and provocative plays, the Donmar Warehouse this week opened its Christmas show, the little known 1989 musical City of Angels. There’s a reason the show hasn&…
Towards the end of Eric and Little Ern, I realised that I was suppressing a fairly urgent desire to climb onstage, grab Jonty Stephens's jowly face and shout at him, 'Are you a real person? …
Audience participation isn't really my thing. It's more like the opposite of my thing. If I'd been personally addressed by Widow Twankey (Chris Dennis) at any point during the evening, I'd h…
From being a research art project set up to explore "the semiotics and meaning-making approaches of the PoetryFilm artform" established by British artist, writer and filmmaker Zata Kitowski …
Image by Derek Drescher By now, you may well think you’ve had your fill of flamboyant dames and "he’s behind you"s, but Above the Stag‘s annual pantomime is far from you…
Image by Paul Blakemore Farnham Maltings has recently announced the recipients for this year’s No Strings Attached scheme. No Stings Attached is a scheme which provides emerging art…
This revival is absolutely bursting with glorious energy and vitality " if every show put as much oomph into their work as the cast and crew of Lionboy, London theatre would be an entirely d…
In the playwright's notes, John Cariani expresses this sentiment under the heading 'On time': “The plot of each scene in Almost Maine climaxes with some sort of magical moment". Forgiv…
For those who prefer their cabaret on the civilised side, and indeed alongside a slice of pizza, glass of wine and the beautiful ambience of the King's Road, Cabaret Confidential would be ju…
It is scientifically proven that music is beneficial for young children's development. The UK has various different pre-school activities for young ones stimulating their sense of rhythm, la…
Even in the three years since Nina Raine's Tiger Country was last staged at the Hampstead Theatre, the rate at which the NHS is being sliced into privately-owned pieces has rapidly increased…
