10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
In their teens two brothers, Ray and Dave Davies, rallied together two of their childhood friends Pete Quaife and Mike Avroy to form a band. Known then as The Ravens, these four young musici…
As I keep saying, theatre is such a diverse performance platform that can accommodate such a vast amount of art. Such examples include serious dramatic plays, dazzlingly spectacular musicals…
It is hard to picture a more perfect stage for Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore than the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, which opened in January this year. The low-lit stage paired with num…
Robert Holman is a playwright rarely revived. The Park Theatre's staging of his 2008 play Jonah and Otto will be the first of his works to be produced in London since Making Noise Quietly…
Jake and I are delighted to announce that we have appointed Laura Stevens as the new Editor of A Younger Theatre. She will be taking over from me from Monday 3rd November, and can be reached…
Theatre is, and always has been, incredibly different from film and television. It's raw, evocative and, most importantly, alive " and these aspects come to life in a spellbinding new ada…
Amy is a hot-headed, feisty and wayward teenager who is failing at school, has fallen out with her lifelong best friend, and to complete her run of bad luck has just been kicked out of her f…
Edgar Allan Poe could not be absent during this year’s London Horror Festival, and in Gimcrack Productions’ debut his short story The Fall of the House of Usher is the basis for …
Ibsen knew that the truth is a complicated thing. In general, seeking out the truth appears to be a valuable endeavor, but in reality living with the truth may be no good at all. Whether it …
It is often said that the best writing comes from one's own life experiences. Whilst to follow this maxim seems frightfully limiting and, in my case, would almost certainly churn out some un…
It’s now four years since A Night Less Ordinary ended, and two years since the Donmar Warehouse stopped targeting youth audiences with discounted tickets. When the Barbican recently sc…
The Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme gives an opportunity for talented singers at the beginning of their careers to immerse themselves in the life at ROH, as we…
In a small flurry of transatlantic transfers " hot on the heels of Here Lies Love and The Scottsboro Boys " Tony-award winning Memphis the Musical is the latest show to test whether the West…
The only white man in Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand is dead, which is a refreshing state of affairs. The seven black women who carry the story hold the stage brilliantly wit…
When it was first performed in 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals stirred controversy over its portrayal of Irish characters and a disastrous opening performance. Sheridan re…
There's nothing like a modern revival of a classic play to breathe life into some old themes and ideas that are relevant in the world we live in today. This is the case with Roy Williams'…
Call for submissions: Starting Blocks 2015 at Camden People’s Theatre Sprint is London's biggest and best established annual festival of new and unusual theatre and performance. It sho…
Win a pair of tickets to see The 39 Steps at The Criterion Theatre with our competition. Read on to find out how to enter. The 39 Steps The Criterion Theatre Alfred Hitchcock's classi…
Win a pair of tickets to see David Lane's FREE at Half Moon Theatre with our competition. Read on to find out how to enter. FREE Half Moon Theatre 1o Nov A hard-hitting story of two te…
TheatreCraft, the careers fair for theatre, took place at the Royal Opera House on 17 October. Here our writers reflect on the opening speeches and workshops that took place throughout the d…
The Scottsboro Boys were a group of nine black boys travelling through Alabama in 1931, pulled from their train, falsely accused of rape and convicted to the electric chair. The trial, which…
A lesser known opera in the Handelian repertoire, Ottone is by no mean the least. With an intriguing plot and dramatic and well-paced music, the opera stands up against any of his more popul…
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is undoubtedly a masterpiece of the operatic world; a piece of theatre so well crafted, comic and heartfelt, it’s almost impossible for it to be r…
Creating a sustainable career in the arts is by no means an easy goal. If, like me, you don't have family connections, access to vast sums of money and equally vast amounts of luck, the barr…
In keeping with the Trafalgar Transformed season, captained by Jamie Lloyd, East is East is aimed at appealing to a wide bracket of would-be theatre-goers as well as existing ones. Sam Yates…
