10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
It starts with a bang in the darkness, a potentially reckless decision given that 80 percent of the audience was over the age of 60. The loud bang that sped from the slanted stage into the g…
Southwark Playhouse is known for taking a little bit of a risk in its shows, and Next Fall starts with a bang…quite literally. The show follows the relationship of Adam (Charlie Condou)…
Veronica Aloess interviews Susanna Narvaez and Patrick Maubert about a new site-specific productions around Blackfriars in London. Another Day is a play rooted in its setting " playwrights h…
We are just entering the final week of rehearsals for our production of Shakespeare’s Henry V. This project marks the first of Cyphers’ collaborations with student theatre …
There was bound to be a play about phone hacking. But Richard Bean’s new work (like his previous hit One Man, Two Guvnors, a National Theatre transfer) takes on the holy trinity of …
As one of London's cosiest and most welcoming venues, it's always a pleasure to see what the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill has in store for its audiences. And the Edge of Our Bodies " dir…
Cosmo Landesman, author of Starstruck, introduces us to Mikey Cuddihy, author of A Conversation About Happiness: The Story of a Lost Childhood and Abbie Ross, author of Hippy Dinners: A M…
Igor and Moreno’s Idiot-Syncrasy begins with the two standing side by side, wearing colourful and ill-fitting rain jackets and sports shoes "Â a far cry from the designed and often m…
Being surrounded by die-hard Michael Ball fans isn't usually something I go for on a Sunday eve (more like a Wednesday) but being present for the second West End Heroes in so many years tota…
German director Thomas Ostermeier is on an odyssey through Ibsen. "Roughly every two years [since 2002] I have directed an Ibsen play," he states in the programme, and his production of An E…
"When I was little I wanted to be a farmer because I had it pretty solid in my head that milking cows was what I wanted to do," muses director Tinuke Craig. “My dad wanted me to be the…
When Act One lasts nearly two hours and the right people still aren't married, one could be forgiven for spending the interval pondering how many more laments, double-crossings, betrayals, m…
Letters? Hand-written notes? Even a thank you card? It’s not hard to see that a good old handwritten letter is a rare occurrence these days. As I take my seat in the Soho Theatre I …
There is one thing to remember about Robert Llewellyn's Electric Cars Are Rubbish. Aren't They? " and that is the distinct use of punctuation. He states that when his show first began, he ke…
Still in its infancy, the Park Theatre is proving to be a top player in the London theatre network, and with David Hare’s The Vertical Hour currently taking residence, the future looks…
Immersive theatre is a certainly a strange world, but it is one that I've found increasingly enjoyable the more I encounter. My latest experience of it was CoLab's Fifth Column, a spy thr…
Best of BE Festival Barbican 8-11 October, 7.45pm Crossing geographical borders, BE (Birmingham European) FESTIVAL champions the work of original and daring theatre makers from across the co…
Blue Boy Entertainment presents The Five & the Prophecy of Prana Barbican Theatre 2-4 October An action-packed hip-hop adventure of superhuman proportions. Set in modern Tokyo, The Five …
After four-and-a-half years as Editor of A Younger Theatre, I’ll be stepping down in November. Â I’ve been freelance for the past three years, which has made it possible to fit…
Recently, it seems there has been a relentless barrage of bad news. From each newspaper front page or TV tickertape, there have been foreign tragedies, domestic disputes and horror in paradi…
Jonathan Munby sounds excited. I am speaking to him two days before the opening of Twelfth Night at the Crucible, his fifth show at Sheffield Theatres. “I love working here, it’s…
In case you weren't already aware of this little-known fact (I have been keeping modestly hush-hush about the matter), I am currently part of a show called Shit-faced Shakespeare, a producti…
I can imagine watching 64 Squares during the later years of high school and being very envious of what I was seeing on stage. Even with two feet firmly placed in my 20s, I am in awe of the a…
If you say the word 'feminism', it conjures up tons of different ideas – many of which have been thrown about very recently in the media, thanks to a recent rise in interest in the top…
Karaoke Battersea Arts Centre 29 Sep – 18 Oct | 8.30pm Catatonically deadpan, gratuitously vapid and gleefully strung out, KARAOKE follows the critically-acclaimed AMUSEMENTS as t…
