Satirical musicals are trending at this year’s fringe, but there are plenty of intense one-person shows too, a knockout coming-of-age drama, and the unmissable return of Every Brilliant Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMGrosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterThe streets could be meaner in this new stage adaptation, which is at its best when exploring the challenges of the immigrant experience Sprays of liq…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15AMRoyal Court, LiverpoolSet in a covent and a prison, Jonathan Harvey’s knockabout new play is full of sledgehammer innuendo Jonathan Harvey’s new play could make even the least pious nun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMStanley theatre; Toxteth Reservoir, LiverpoolDenis Lavant is remarkable as old man Krapp in Beckett’s minor masterpiece, while Adrian Dunbar shrouds his short radio play in total darkness …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMReview: 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 to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:36AMToday we’re speaking to Evelyn Roberts, the mastermind behind a new Shakespeare festival in Manchester. It promises audiences some light relief and definitely no stuffyness. For all the di…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:24AMReview: Bottom’s Dream and Twelfth Night, The GOAT Mcr 3.0Overall Score Manchester audiences don’t have to travel back in time to Ancient Greece to see live theatre in an amphitheatre. T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36PMThe writer of Anna X, which stars The Crown’s Emma Corrin and Industry’s Nabhaan Rizwan talks to us about moving from the Vault Festival to a major West End theatre and putting certain p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:12AMReview: Outlier, Bristol Old Vic 3.0Overall Score Gigs may currently be off, but this co-production with Old Vic Ferment fuses their kinetic atmosphere and music-informed storytelling into a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:12AMReview: LIT, Nottingham Playhouse3.0Overall ScoreSomehow it’s already June. For schoolkids, the summer holiday is near. A time when you might find love, fall out of love, find new friends …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:24AMThe temporary transfer of live to online theatre has changed the way many critics, like our own Matt Barton approaches and writes about it. Here, he considers whether we should be more lenie…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:42AMReview: The Barn, The Turbine Theatre3.0Overall ScoreIf you’re enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a member, with every penny going towards keeping AYT going and paying our…
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SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:32AMReview: Circles, Living Record Festival3.0Overall ScoreIf you’re enjoying our content, then please consider becoming a patreon with every penny going towards keeping paying AYT going and p…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:18AMIn our latest interview, Matt Barton speaks to Michael Buffong, artistic director of Talawa, about their new digital series Tales from the Front Line, the future of theatre post-Covid, and T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:24AMReview: Phoenix, English Touring Theatre4.0Overall ScoreAs the country endures a second lockdown, Mike Bartlett’s audio drama revisits one of the biggest controversies of the first. His 17…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:24PMReview: PETRICHOR, ThickSkin Theatre3.0Overall ScoreOver lockdown we’ve become accustomed to watching theatre through computer screens, but ThickSkin’s latest production asks its audienc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:24PMReview: Macbeth, Big Telly Theatre 2.0Overall Score This is perhaps the most definitive proof yet that ‘The Scottish Play’ is cursed. Zoom has been the repurposed vessel for theatre’s …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:03PMIn our latest interview, Matt Barton interviews Georgia Leanne Harris, the artistic director of London’s newest theatre. They talk about opening a theatre in a pandemic, and Harris’s vis…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:06AMReview: Getting Close, Scenes for Survival, National Theatre of Scotland3.0StarsOne of the hardest struggles of lockdown has been staying connected to those you love or care about. Kathy McK…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:32AMReview: The Maid's Room, Scenes for Survival, National Theatre of Scotland2.0StarsThe pandemic hasn’t halted theatre’s affinity with a good ghost story. This instalment in the National T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMReview: Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Oldham Coliseum Theatre4.0starsOne of a parent’s strongest instincts is to protect their child. James Fritz’s 2014 thriller Four Minutes Twelve Secon…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMReview: Extraordinary Wall of Silence, HOME Manchester4.0starsWith such a regular focus on the oral performance in theatre – always interested in the details of the delivery of a line – …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AMReview: The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, HOME Manchester 3.0stars There are few more iconic or quintessential show business stars than Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. Th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AMReview: Plant Fetish, HOME, Manchester2.0starsLike a perennial evergreen, Chanje Kunda’s Plant Fetish continues to flower at HOME since it first blossomed during January’s Push Festival.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:42AMReview: Jack and the Beanstalk, Oldham Coliseum Theatre 3.0stars There’s a tangible feeling of jovial warmth in the Oldham Coliseum for their Christmas pantomime, proudly described as “r…
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