10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Despite announcing a break back in September, A Younger Theatre still has plans to come back stronger than ever. Here's an update from Managing Director Sam. Sometimes I still feel like I'm …
Review: Dear Elizabeth, the Gate at Theatro Technis4.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesIf ever a show deserved to be written about exclusively in the present tense, it is the Gate's Dear…
Review: Look, No Hands, Pleasance Online 4.0Overall Score Lila Clements has come to the Pleasance Theatre to share her story with us. There is just one little problem: she does not remember …
Review: Cailleach, Mull Theatre and Sonder Circus4.0Overall ScoreCailleach is a performance-based piece created in partnership between the Mull Theatre and Sonder Circus. It is played and pe…
Review: Rough Sleeper, Online @ the Actors Centre2.0Overall ScoreThe streets are empty and all we see is a deserted English main street in the opening of Jo Emery's Rough Sleeper. The filmed…
Review: Damage Control, Riverside Studios5.0Overall ScoreHere is a show unlike anything else in London at the moment: an interactive exhibition that sees punters wander around an array of br…
In the final list of opportunities for young underrepresented people in the arts before our break next week, you'll find some crackers from Clean Break, a treat for nature writers and severa…
Review: Tal, online@theSpaceUk 3.0Overall Score Eerie music, a stage drained of colour and a broken cot mark the opening of Tal " an original dance performance. A creature is crouched on the…
Review: The Memory of Water, Hampstead Theatre5.0Overall ScoreThe mind is a fickle thing: sometimes we struggle to recall a name or a word that we have used a hundred times over; on other oc…
Review: White Witch, Bloomsbury Theatre2.0Overall ScoreThere is enormous potential for Barry Reckord's play White Witch. He is a celebrated Jamaican writer, and the piece returns to the Lond…
Review: Frozen The Musical, Theatre Royal Drury Lane 4.0Overall Score When they aren't redefining a cult movie franchise, taking over our living rooms with an exceptional streaming service, …
Review: Fault Lines, White Bear Theatre3.0Overall ScoreAfter a tragic fire burns down their home, Gemma and Ariel are left homeless. Thankfully, Al is in the right place at the right time to…
Review: Leopards, Rose Theatre 4.0Overall Score This week shows a definite return to form for theatres, with the world premiere of Alys Metcalf's Leopards at Rose Theatre, Kingston. It is a …
Review: The System, The Original Theatre Company3.0Overall ScoreThe System is out to set a world record. The world record for "the longest, live single take with a steadicam." We're told abo…
Review: Armageddon, Baby! Mannequin Mouth 4.0Overall Score Many theatre companies have decided to transition their work to the digital realm in the previous year, and Mannequin Mouth is no e…
Review: Where to Belong, Oxford Playhouse 5.0Overall Score Fig rolls; Bjork on a jumpy record player; Mum dressing me in corduroy dungarees. This is what I leave Where to Belong thinking abo…
Review: Toxic, The Garrick Theatre.4.0Overall ScoreSuicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45. This is a real pandemic and one that takes a life every two hours. This shocking …
Review: The Good Dad, The Hope Theatre 3.0Overall Score This September, the quaint yet ever comforting Hope Theatre in Islington is home to The Good Dad " a new play by Gail Louw, starring S…
Review: My First..., Edinburgh Fringe 3.0Overall Score My First… is a sketch show of crippling awkwardness. In a whirlwind of reminiscence and pop culture references, a cast of five young …
Review: Myra Dubois: Dead Funny, The Garrick Theatre4.0Overall ScoreMyra Dubois makes her solo West End debut in Dead Funny, a show created around the concept of death and her own funeral, b…
Review: Bottom, Soho Theatre.4.0Overall ScoreBottom is chaos. This show shouldn't work. And yet it does. In an unhinged mix of monologue, cabaret, lip-syncing, ukulele strumming, and heart, …
Review: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Marlowe Theatre 4.0Overall Score We've seen many Disney classics adapted from film to stage. The Lion King's been running in the West End since 1999 and is …
Review: Subdural Hematoma4.0Overall ScoreSubdural Hematoma, a term I was admittedly unaware of until last night, is a serious brain condition wherein, 'Blood collects between the skull and t…
Review: Coppelia, The Cockpit5.0Overall ScoreI must admit, as I wait for the show to begin, I am nervous. My visit to Coppelia is my first time watching a professional ballet and though I us…
Review: Rockets and Blue Lights, The National Theatre 4.0Overall Score Winsome Pinnock's Rockets and Blue Lights first opened in Manchester at the Royal Exchange Theatre last year before it …
