10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
The Scottsboro Boys Garrick Theatre £10 Ticket Offer for under 25s Following its sell out, award-winning season at The Young Vic, The Scottsboro Boys is now taking the West End by stor…
The first instalment in the blogs from the StoneCrab Gobstoppers can be read here By Tristan Fynn- Aiduenu It's arguably the bane of any project or production " fundraising. Where to go? …
The Little Angel Theatre's latest production is inspired by Lewis Carroll's nonsensical poem ‘Jabberwocky’, charmingly retold using playful delivery, an entrancing soundscape and…
"Sorry, but there's no money left". So wrote former Secretary to the Treasury, Liam Bryne, when Labour handed over reigns of the Exchequer to the coalition four years ago. This pithy summing…
Image by Robert Workman Since 2012 Kathryn O'Reilly has toured both nationally and internationally as the strong but savage Liz Morden " a total of 318 performances as the female convict …
Alcohol and the British public get on like a particularly sozzled house on fire, but why keep the melodrama of one too many until the end of the night? Contemporary performance company Drunk…
Since its establishment in 1981, London International Festival of Theatre " or LIFT " have been bringing bold and ambitious theatre to the capital with its bi-annual festival. This year's fe…
Based on the international classic by Kenneth Grahame, this Royal Opera House production (moving into a West End venue once again) was first performed in 2002 and Will Tuckett’s choreo…
To quote Caitlin Moran’s bestseller, “How to be a Woman?” is a question far less threatening for today’s society. More women (and men) are calling themselves feminist…
“Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!”, penned Rossini in a letter to a friend. I agree, to a certain extent. Wagner’s radical compositional con…
Seen at the Edinburgh Fringe earlier this year, Back Door tells a story similar to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Now set in Paris, Tabitha (Laura Louise Baker) and John (Polis Loizou…
In Zagreb stands an old, ivy-covered mansion. It has housed the Kos family for over seventy years, and there has not been a male child born into the Kos family for four generations. This is …
Continued from Steve McGarrick’s last guest blog at www.ayoungertheatre.com/guest-blog-scott-mcgarrick-it-felt-like-a-horror-film/ The following day we arrived by taxi to the Queen'…
Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas have been a staple of the theatre repertoire "Â amateur and professional "Â since they were first performed at the end of the nineteenth century. S…
Once upon a time there was a grand tower, which stood on the banks of a great gushing river. Though it stood tall, gazing down over the people of the city, it was left to fall into disrepair…
One of the beauties of theatre is its fleeting nature. Its sense of the ephemeral heightens the sense of wonder that a performance can portray, but can also be a huge sense of frustration. W…
They say that truth is stranger than fiction, which surely means that the Deptford Lounge will be getting some odd looks this month " and for a fair few more after that as well. You see, at …
Image by Ellie Kurttz Nostalgia is a powerful thing. Films, books and songs that you loved as a child can stick with you throughout your life. However, sometimes when you revisit your old…
Whilst Usagi Yojimbo, currently showing at Southwark Playhouse’s larger space is running until early January, it is by no means a traditional Christmas show. Based on Stan Sakai’…
Sometimes the joy in theatre is the opportunity to relish in two hours of pure imaginative escapism. At others, it's the chance to explore familiar turf, to remind ourselves of what we know,…
Another musical revival in the wake of British classics Evita and Cats comes from the other side of the Pond. Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, first performed in 1990, has opened at the M…
The Charles Court Opera company has built a reputation over the last few years for creating one of the funniest pantomimes in London, and their eighth 'boutique panto' comes to the Rosemary …
Creating pioneering theatre for a younger audience, Polka Theatre takes on the much loved story of the boy who never grows up, a story that has stayed with us for over 100 years and keeps in…
It's 1985 and we're in New York's red light district. There's nothing extremely exciting about a dimly lit set which greets the audience, oozing in red paint and strobe panels matching in co…
What's Cheryl Cole's new name? Cheryl Verwotsit? Fillisomething? You can always judge a panto on its pop culture references. And there's plenty shoehorned into Sleeping Booty! at the Leicest…
