Saturday, October 15, 2016
Theresa Ikoko is on a roll. She’s taken a quick lunch break from her day job helping to reduce youth crime in London and we’re having a natter about her play Girls, currently playing …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:14AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Could the hidden struggles of Britain’s toilet attendants spark powerful change? A play inspired by a whole night in a nightclub’s toilets, conjuring up the overwhelming scent of Britney…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:40PMFriday, August 19, 2016
Who knew ballet would go down such a treat with a boisterous child? The little boy sitting in front of me flings his arms about gleefully with abandon. I’m reminded of myself during a very…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:45AMFriday, July 29, 2016
It’s impossible to escape the numb uncertainty that has screeched in our mostly, dumbfounded faces for the last month. Like a banshee that has devoured four bags of Skittles, the Brexit re…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14PMWe’re so hell-bent on maintaining the idea of nature or nurture – an either-or that it has become ubiquitous in determining humanity’s actions. But what if it’s domin…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:06AMSunday, July 24, 2016
I don’t know what I did to deserve almost being set on fire but to see The Bodyguard‘s fully charged, pyrotechnic laden opening number thrown at the audience with such glorious f…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:32AMWednesday, June 15, 2016
Based on the (teensy bit) popular 1992 Disney film and hugely successful Broadway show, Aladdin has finally arrived in the West-End. As one would expect from Disney, MEGA BUCKS have been thr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:02PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
At once energetic and breathtakingly self obsessed, Jesse Eisenberg’s protagonist, Ben never initially exudes malicious intent, however by the end of Act One, you are left wondering ho…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:36AMSunday, April 17, 2016
The classics really do have their mega-fans. Chuckles and guffaws are thrown at the stage like a downpour of die on a poker table and my neighbour looks fit to burst with delighted glee. Guy…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:25PMDeep in the groin of Waterloo station, the memories of many a grown-up come to life, but only threaten to be nostalgic. For me and many other twenty-odd (and perhaps younger) year-olds, R.L …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:46AMTuesday, April 5, 2016
The earth shattering, appreciative and rather long applause that greets Glenn Close as she makes her entrance on to the Coliseum’s stage may feel a little disruptive and ‘lovey’, but h…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:20PMSunday, April 3, 2016
Of all of Roald Dahl’s books, The Witches has got to be one of the scariest for a young child to even entertain. The idea of an adult woman hating children and wanting to hurt them deeply …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:27PMSaturday, March 26, 2016
There’s been unanimous appreciation for People, Places and Things for quite some time now, and a collective agreement that seeing it on stage – with Denise Gough in the lead role – …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:57PMSunday, March 20, 2016
What a bloody pickle. You’re having an affair with your best friend’s wife, sneaking around hotel rooms, being all naughty and ringing in sick to work like you’re part-time at Greggs a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:21PMMonday, December 14, 2015
Nearly 700 years have passed since the world first caught a glimpse at the cursed princess who sleeps for a century. The prose romance, written anonymously in French between 1330 and 1344 ta…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:10AMSunday, December 13, 2015
There’s nothing with more Christmas pizzazz than the nostalgic images of carol singers, and ladies and gents dressed in their finery against the backdrop of the snow-layered, ancient stree…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:58PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
I really cannot deal with hats but, hypothetically speaking, if someone stole mine I’d like to think I’d hunt them down to the ends of the earth and destroy them. I Want My Hat …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:58PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Lordy do I want to sit on the big guy’s lap and get a big sack of treats now. It’s only the beginning of November but watching Broadway’s latest export, Elf it may as wel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:18PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
Being informed that a show you’re about to see is unsuitable for under 13s may just be one of the worst things one could ever hear. I mean Signs was bloody horrific. But not I. Oh no…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:12PMSunday, October 18, 2015
On a night out in Vauxhall some time ago, my pal tried to teach me some salsa. “Moi? Salsa? I couldn’t possibly!” The rhythm necessary unfortunately alludes me, but I have …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:10PMThursday, October 8, 2015
Helping young people accomplish their dreams is a bit of alright in my book, and especially when they are at a serious disadvantage because of a lack of money. Ian McKellen thinks the Nation…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:22PMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Writer Florian Zeller has expressed his keenness on this piece – on this journey to not simply be voyeuristic but for the audience to become lost in a mental labyrinth. He doesn’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00PMFriday, September 18, 2015
Bugger me, this show makes you want to go out and party. My boyfriend has mentioned having a drag inspired birthday shindig next year and at first I was very skeptical. I like my heels below…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:43PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
“I suppose she just wasn’t exceptional enough”: at first a seemingly passing statement but in the final moments of Anna Ziegler’s play, Photograph 51, Nicole Kidman summarises her ch…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:09PMMonday, August 17, 2015
Gotta love a unicorn. They’re just so horny and precious and long-maned. I Believe in Unicorns isn’t totally devoted to the creatures, but the story does every now and again return …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:58PMMonday, August 10, 2015
Most popularly associated with Disney’s 1940 film, Pinocchio actually started life in 1883 in Italy as The Adventures of Pinocchio and was written in serial form. It is the author Carlo Co…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:03PMFriday, May 8, 2015
The inevitability of yet more cuts to the arts after today’s election result has brought morale to a staggering low. At the same time I’m seeing hope and I’m still seeing some excellen…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:57PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
I’m sure some of our readers are too young to vividly remember the devastating 9/11 attacks on New York’s Twin Towers but would have undoubtedly since seen or heard about them in one fo�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:28PMSunday, April 19, 2015
It’s fair to say that Roald Dahl’s 1980 children’s book The Twits offers a strong aversion to ‘bad’ people, and a general consensus that they’ll inevitably get their comeuppance…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:47PMFriday, April 3, 2015
A feeling of bewilderment befell the Coliseum’s auditorium as, happy as Larry, Emma Thompson, Bryn Terfel and the remainder of Sweeney Todd’s cast strolled onto stage and propp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:30AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
There’s an overwhelming feeling of self-importance among the human race; an unavoidable subjective notion that we are special and, in the early stages of life, invincible. Then there is th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:15PM 
