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Saturday, August 8, 2020

Review: The Boy In The Book, Electric Dreams Festival / CYOD and TheSpace by Samuel Nicholls

Review: The Boy In The Book, Electric Dreams Festival / CYOD and TheSpace 5.0Stars First published in 1979, the Choose Your Own Adventure books by Charles Packard were a niche but beloved pa…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:18PM
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Review: Songs For A New World, Lambert Jackson Productions / The Other Palace by Samuel Nicholls

Review: Songs For A New World, Lambert Jackson Productions / The Other Palace4.0StarsConceptually, Songs for a New World is a tough sell: situated somewhere between a musical and a song cycl…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:42AM
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Boundless Theatre: “Youth Culture Drives Us Far More Than Theatre Culture” by Samuel Nicholls

In our latest feature, Sam Nicholls speaks to the Artistic Director of Boundless Theatre, Rob Drummer about how merging both live and digital theatre could be the way forward. On Friday 3 Ju…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:32AM
Saturday, July 4, 2020

LOOKOUT: “Young People Never Get Taught About Some Roles” by Samuel Nicholls

The creative industries are already an anxiety-ridden area to get into and this has increased ten-fold in recent months. A new podcast by Brighton-based company, LOOKOUT has been produced in…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:03AM
Friday, June 26, 2020

Review: The Last Five Years, Lambert Jackson Productions by Samuel Nicholls

Review: The Last Five Years, Lambert Jackson Productions 4.0Stars One of the last pieces of theatre I managed to see before the COVID-19 lockdown decimated normal life (and made live perform…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:48AM
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Review: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 3, Unicorn Online by Samuel Nicholls

Review: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 3, Unicorn Online 4.0stars The third and final episode of the Unicorn Online’s fantastic Anansi the Spider Re-Spun series, ‘Anansi and the Pot …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:36AM
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Review: Anansi the Spider Re-spun: Episode 2, Unicorn Online by Samuel Nicholls

Review: Anansi the Spider Re-spun: Episode 2, Unicorn Online5.0starsThe second instalment of Unicorn Theatre’s online offerings, Anansi and the Two Dinners builds off the energy and charm …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:03AM
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Review: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 1, Unicorn Online by Samuel Nicholls

Review: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 1, Unicorn Online5.0starsWhen Anansi the Spider was first performed at the Unicorn Theatre back in 2019, the world was a completely different place…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:03AM
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Is the Answer Virtual Reality? by Samuel Nicholls

Theatre has had to adapt swiftly and intelligently now that people are confined to their homes for the foreseeable future. Here, Sam Nicholls considers where the future may lie. Is it virtua…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:24PM
Friday, May 15, 2020

Review: Bare E-ssentials, Encompass Productions by Samuel Nicholls

Review: Bare E-ssentials, Encompass Productions3.0StarsThe tenth edition of Encompass Production’s reoccurring night of ‘micro-theatre’, Bare E-ssentials breaks the mould by being the …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:03AM
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Review: Dem Times, Omnibus Theatre Online by Samuel Nicholls

Review: Dem Times, Omnibus Theatre Online3.0starsProduced by Our Days, Dem Times is the story of Samuel Adjei, a British-born troublemaker forced by his parents to attend a rigorous Ghanaian…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:32PM
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Working For The Coronavirus Theatre Club: “It’s a Weird Honour” by Samuel Nicholls

Feeling like his theatre company was picking up speed, Jasper Frost was on cloud nine until the pandemic struck. He talks to Samuel Nicholls about what it’s now like working with the ‘Co…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:37PM

Review: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True, Barbican (via YouTube) by Samuel Nicholls

Originally performed at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and later broadcasted on BBC4, It’s True, It’s True, It’s True is the latest offering from Breach Theatre, a company that Lyn…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:35PM
Monday, March 16, 2020

The Coronavirus: will it rouse a digital theatre revolution? by Samuel Nicholls

Theatres are closing all over the world because of the Coronavirus. Is this really the end of days or could the internet prove to not only be our saviour but the start of a necessary revolut…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:48AM

Review: The Time Machine, The London Library by Samuel Nicholls

Review: The Time Machine, The London Library1.0starFirst published in 1895, H.G. Wells’ serialised novel, The Time Machine, not only popularised the concept of time travel, but in fact coi…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:06AM
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Review: The Importance of Being… Earnest?, Omnibus Theatre by Samuel Nicholls

Review: The Importance of Being... Earnest?, Omnibus Theatre 4.0Stars When asked why he thought that the theatre was “the greatest of all art forms”, Oscar Wilde responded that it was be…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:24AM
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Review: The Last Five Years, Southwark Playhouse by Samuel Nicholls

Review: The Last Five Years, Southwark Playhouse 5.0stars Inspired by the breakdown of Jason Robert Brown’s own marriage, The Last Five Years has been a perennial favourite of the musical …

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:54AM
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Review: The Apologists, Omnibus Theatre by Samuel Nicholls

Review: The Apologists, Omnibus Theatre3.0StarsRemarkably, for an age where the ‘art of the apology’ is given almost equal attention to what’s being apologised for, very little dramati…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:32PM
Monday, March 2, 2020

Review: The Sublet Next to Heaven, VAULT Festival by Samuel Nicholls

Review: The Sublet Next to Heaven, VAULT Festival4.0starsAs Hamlet famously said in one of the most widely quoted pieces of Shakespeare, “the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the fir…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:36AM
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Online and On-Stage: Using the Internet to Gain a Following by Samuel Nicholls

In a new series of interviews with young theatre companies, Samuel Nicholls finds out what strategies they use to stand out in an over-saturated industry. This month, he talks to Mannequin M…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PM
Friday, February 28, 2020

Review: Killing It, VAULT Festival by Samuel Nicholls

Review: Killing It, VAULT Festival 5.0Stars Ever since Fleabag’s incredible journey from humble origins to explosive popularity, fringe artists have coalesced in trying to emulate its intr…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:42PM
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Review: A Deed Without a Name, Theatro Technis by Samuel Nicholls

Review: A Deed Without a Name, Theatro Technis 2.0stars Polish avant-garde artist, playwright, novelist and philosopher S.I. Witkiewicz posited “with fiction, you don’t make a fuss – y…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:54PM
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Review: Screwdriver, Lyric Hammersmith by Samuel Nicholls

Review: Screwdriver, Lyric Hammersmith 4.0stars As posited by Oscar Wilde, “one of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:03PM
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Review: On McQuillan’s Hill, Finborough Theatre by Samuel Nicholls

Review: On McQuillan's Hill, Finborough Theatre4.0starsJoseph Crilly’s On McQuillan’s Hill was first performed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in February 2000, opening to rave reviews. Me…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:12PM

Review: What the Dolls Saw, VAULT Festival by Samuel Nicholls

Review: What the Dolls Saw, VAULT Festival 3.0stars At home in the dank dungeon of the VAULT Festival, What the Dolls Saw promises the proverbial moon: a true-crime style conundrum “that u…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:03PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Review: For the Sake of Argument, Bridewell Theatre by Samuel Nicholls

Review: For the Sake of Argument, Bridewell Theatre1.0starsFrom the outset, For the Sake of Argument is obsessed with the virtue of a well-made point: as its protagonist Eleanor Hickock (Ash…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:24AM
Saturday, February 1, 2020

How to do Immersive Theatre at Fringe Level by Samuel Nicholls

In a new series, Samuel Nicholls interviews small theatre companies to find out what strategies they use to stand out in an over-saturated industry. This month, he talks to Get Out of My Spa…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:12AM
Friday, January 31, 2020

Review: The Welkin, National Theatre by Samuel Nicholls

Review: The Welkin, National Theatre 5.0stars Stemming from the Old English word for ‘cloud’, the welkin is a vault in the sky: the home of the legendary Grigori, an elite race of angels…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:03AM
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Review: Dial M for Murder, Richmond Theatre by Samuel Nicholls

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 seriou…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:36AM
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Review: Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios 2 by Samuel Nicholls

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 pl…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AM
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest – Played by Immigrants, Tower Theatre by Samuel Nicholls

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest - Played by Immigrants, Tower Theatre2.0starsAs shrewdly commented by the prickly Lady Bracknell, “never speak disrespectfully of Society… only pe…

SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:54AM

All that Chat

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