10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
I'm thinking about disabled theatre. I'm thinking about disabled theatre criticism. I'm thinking about it in context of a show I saw recently, to which my first responses were directly relat…
Despite all the best intentions, sometimes a theatre show just does not work. For me, Caldo con Enjundia's Bar Ensueño is that show. Perhaps my reaction is an anomaly – the audience…
I had never heard of Haydn’s Life on the Moon (Il mondo della luna), and after tonight’s performance by English Touring Opera I now see why. It is by no fault of ETO and it’…
After Little Revolution interrogated ideas of community and how it divides us, Thornton Wilder's Our Town moves into the Almeida after its successful run in New York, and examines the everyd…
The Wild Duck The Barbican Centre £10 Ticket Offer 23 October 2014 – 1 November 2014 | 15:00, 19:45 The Wild Duck is reimagined for the modern stage, with the action unfoldi…
It is often feared by theatregoers and bookworms alike that, when a classic novel is adapted for the stage, the performance may lose sight of the original ingenuity of the text. This danger …
David Baddiel, the first comedian to perform in arenas in the UK, makes his first foray into musical theatre by adapting his 2010 film, The Infidel. The plot deals with the theme of 'identit…
Just a hop, skip and a jump away from his bust on Adelaide Street, The Trials of Oscar Wilde at Trafalgar Studios is just that: an avid and vivid telling of one of London's most famous and n…
Brothers of Justice Camden People’s Theatre 23-25 October  " 2-for-1 tickets (usually £12/£10) Fuelled by the apathy they see everywhere, enraged by the deterioration of…
Every once in a while, it's nice to take a break from the big, exciting shows that catch most of the public's attention on a theatre's main stage, and catch some new work in a much smaller v…
On walking into the rebranded spanking new Dorfman Theatre, you would be forgiven for thinking that the National had paid the wrong developers. The Dorfman doesn't look like a theatre, it lo…
The annual London Horror Festival is a celebration of everything dark, gory and scary in film and theatre in the run-up to Halloween. Throughout October it will bring London's scariest acts …
Live art. Collision. Hyperlocal. Supernow. Whilst a part of me always wants to rebel against the possible inaccessibility and self-conscious coolness of Fierce Festival's tagline, I cannot d…
GREAT BRITAIN Theatre Royal Haymarket Student Offer " Best Available tickets £15 (usually £59.50) Richard Bean’s fast, furious and foul-mouthed new play is an anarchic satire abo…
Win a pair of tickets to see La Soirée at Southbank Centre's Winter Festival with our competition. Read on to find out how to enter. La Soirée 5 November " 11 January www.la-soiree.com …
There are plays about murder, about incest, torture and all kinds of other unimaginable cruelties and taboos, but The Distance, a new play by Deborah Bruce, introduces one that strays into r…
When a show starts with the audience being given pink or blue hairnets depending on their gender, and various male audience members being asked to chug a beer, wank over a dirty mag and then…
When approaching Shakespeare in the twenty-first century many choose to re-invent the classical plays, updating the setting to a post-modern world of chaos, smart-phones and Tinder. Relating…
Southwark Playhouse's ‘tiny’ space plays host to Kate Lovell and Alison Neighbour's, together known as Bread & Goose, intimate and interactive play Lost In The Neuron Forest,…
In my last review of Harold Pinter's play Betrayal, I mentioned that there's nothing like a good old-fashioned play to bring an audience to its senses, especially in a theatrical climate tha…
It's as if the Donmar Warehouse can do no wrong. The place churns out hit after hit, and I'm not just talking about commercial successes " for rarely is there an empty seat in the house "…
After successfully bringing Three Sisters and The Seagull into the modern day, Russell Bolam, along with collaborator, playwright Anya Reiss, is back with a third Chekhov instalment, this…
Founded in 2010, The Print Room theatre used to be at home in an abandoned building in Hereford Road, but after the landlord announced development plans for the site last year, Artistic Dire…
Ultra-violence with a cracker of a smile on its face is one of my favourite things; add in singing and it becomes a large gorge-fest of brand spanking new fun. Is Urinetown that brutal…
"Hi there, I'm your Equity representative," said the shy, chipper, and palpably redundant chap who popped into my non-Equity panto rehearsal a couple of years ago. "I know this is a non-Equi…
