10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Review: Romantics Anonymous, Bristol Old Vic3.0starsReader Rating 0 VotesRomance has a particular 'look', physique, voice and even vibe, which ruffled shirts, excessive sweating and an incli…
In the fourth of multi-talented AYT writer, Emma Bentley's series of very personal articles, she talks about believing, as many of us do, that she needs to look a certain way to get an actin…
Review: The Sunset Limited, Boulevard Theatre 4.0stars The Sunset Limited dabbles in discussing the depressive state man finds himself in, until it propels forward and it finds itself questi…
Review: Us Two, The Space3.0starsTwo women sit in a cafe gazing at the menu, their nails, anything but each other. Lizzy (Karina Cornwell) and Beth (Kara Stanley) have been friends since…
Review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Theatre Royal Plymouth3.0starsReader Rating 0 VotesJust over 25 years have passed since the first showing of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and albeit …
Review: You Stupid Darkness!, Southwark Playhouse4.0stars"Brightline. You're through to someone you can talk to," are the words that greet you when you call into the helpline akin to the Sam…
Review: Candy, King's Head Theatre 3.0stars Strangely, this play is at its strongest during the times when it's completely off topic. Despite focusing on the experiences of a young man falli…
Review: The Co-op, White Bear Theatre 3.0stars Day-drinking, bickering and playacting their dream roles, three charmingly ambitious yet painfully insecure 'nobodies' run their dysfunctional …
Review: Four Play, Above the Stag Theatre 3.0stars 'There are so many ways to be in a relationship in 2020' says Jake Brunger, the playwright of Four Play on the play's programme interview. …
Review: Smoke Weed Eat Pussy Everyday, Camden People's Theatre 5.0stars There she lies on the mattress, snuggled in a thin blanket, holding herself tight. It's silent and dark and through th…
Review: Street Scene, Opera North5.0starsStreet Scene is a rollicking, powerful production which kicks off Opera North's first season of 2020. Kurt Weill's opera is truly a fusion of genres,…
Review: Hamlet: Rotten States, The Hope Theatre 2.0stars Christmas has been and gone and I thought the same could be said for panto season. Yet, tonight I discover that my aforementioned pre…
Review: Fix, The Pleasance Theatre3.0starsA broken washing machine in an old house, somewhere in the woods, an older woman with secrets and a repairman with a seemingly easy task. That is th…
After developing it during the Royal Court Writer's programme, Miriam Battye is ready to conquer the stage with her play, Scenes with Girls. She talks to Halima Hassan about her 'process', m…
Review: Magic Goes Wrong, Vaudeville Theatre3.0starsI'm ashamed to say that until Magic Goes Wrong I hadn't seen any of Mischief Theatre Company's work, despite following their plethora of s…
Review: Dial M for Murder, Richmond Theatre2.0starsWhen playwright Frederick Knott first conceived and wrote Dial M for Murder in 1948, he identified the text's core strength as its seriousn…
Review: Shackleton and his Stowaway, Park Theatre3.0starsTonight we venture on an expedition- Shackleton and his Stowaway takes us on the perilous journey made by our title characters Ernest…
Lindsey Huebner interviews Oscar Toeman, runner up of this year's JMK awards as he gears up to direct Lucy Prebble's controversial play, The Sugar Syndrome. I meet Oscar Toeman at the BFI So…
Review: RAGS The Musical, Park Theatre 4.0stars It seems no surprise from a read of the programme note that composer Charles Strouse wrote the music to RAGS before collaborator and lyricist …
Review: Jew... ish, King's Head Theatre4.0starsOn he runs, singing "I'm a Jew… one of God's chosen few" and we realise what we've let ourselves in for " an hour of a ludicrous, tender mess…
Review: The Girl with Glitter in her Eye, The Bunker Theatre4.0starsSince the Bunker Theatre announced it will be closing its doors in March this year, it is with somewhat of a heavy heart t…
Anyone else feel angry/ puzzled/ not that surprised about the recent Oscar and Bafta nominations? Samuel Sims is feeling all sorts of emotion. Here, he discusses the racist, misogynistic his…
Review: Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios 24.0starsOriginally performed in November 1982 at the Bush Theatre, Coming Clean was acclaimed writer Kevin Elyot's first professionally produced play…
Review: This Time, Shoreditch Town Hall 4.0stars This Time is a magnificent aerial performance performed at Shoreditch Town Hall. It is part of the London International Mime Festival, which …
Review: Antigone, New Diorama Theatre2.0starsAntigone isn't short of drama " war, sibling rivalry, and murder. Yet, sat here tonight, I am baffled as to why this classic tragedy is being pla…
