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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Review: Ticker, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe by Max Thomas

Review: Ticker, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe5.0starsWritten and performed by Tom Machell, Ticker is a fully-fledged, consummate piece of theatre. It is rare and no small achievement …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:18PM
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Review: Metamorphosis, Sweet Grassmarket, Edinburgh Fringe by Max Thomas

Review: Metamorphosis, Sweet Grassmarket, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsAssiduously constructed and impressively acted, Different Theatre’s female-oriented Metamorphosis rings with a new voice a…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AM
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Review: Venice Preserved, The Swan Theatre by Max Thomas

Review: Venice Preserved, The Swan Theatre4.0Overall ScoreDespite its immense contemporary popularity, Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserved is a piece that hasn’t appeared on our stages for a…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12AM
Friday, March 22, 2019

Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Shakespeare Theatre by Max Thomas

Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Shakespeare Theatre4.0starsThe Royal Shakespeare Company has been at the heart of bringing classical theatre to a wider audience for many years. Its ac…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:47AM
Monday, February 25, 2019

Review: As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Theatre by Max Thomas

Review: As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Theatre 3.0Overall Score The advertisements for this production of As You Like Itextend the mysterious invitation to ‘come into the forest’ a…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:30AM
Friday, December 21, 2018

Review: The Borrowers, Factory Theatre by Max Thomas

If it ever feels as though you’re constantly losing things around the house, then you too might have Borrowers, says narrator Eddie, whose childhood memory provides the framework for Bea R…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AM
Friday, December 14, 2018

Review: A Christmas Carol, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre by Max Thomas

David Edgar’s new adaptation of Dickens’ classic 1843 novella returns to the RSC for the second year running with a new cast, after achieving critical and commercial success in 2017. Ada…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:36AM
Monday, October 22, 2018

Review: Troilus and Cressida, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre by Max Thomas

With first editions dating to 1609 (incidentally the year of the publication of his sonnets), Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare’s later plays. It takes place seven years into the …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:12AM
Friday, October 5, 2018

Review: Maydays, The Other Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon by Max Thomas

Maydays blitzes through more than 30 years of political revolutions, turmoil, demonstrations and dissent. Moving from the Fall of Berlin in the spring of 1945 to Callaghan’s 1978-9 so-call…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:42AM
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Review: Tartuffe, Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon by Max Thomas

In this modern reimagining, Tartuffe (Asif Khan) is a con man who swindles a Brummie-Pakistani family out of their house and savings. Assuming the piety of ‘an angel’ and eschewing mater…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards