Saturday, March 1, 2014
Are you ready to be so ferociously scared that you’ve no choice but to shriek like a little girl at regular intervals and maybe dribble a teensy bit? Ghost Stories is back in London to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:50PMFriday, January 24, 2014
I unfortunately missed Damien Tracey’s Warde Street, though the excellent reviews he gathered certainly forced me to take notice. Faster, Higher, Stronger, Straighter is Tracey’s tent…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:00AMSunday, January 19, 2014
What an exciting experience it is to bear witness to the first production housed in the new, indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, which opened this month. This theatre ha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:48PMFriday, December 20, 2013
One might wonder whether creating an opera for very young children is a good idea. It can be hard to follow at the best of times, even with subtitles, and kids aren’t known for their b…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:43AMSunday, December 15, 2013
There’s something about going to London’s Coliseum that makes me feel warm and secure, rather like when you’re a kid and there’s nothing to worry about apart from wha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:16PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
This is such an intriguing project and, I imagine, a lot of fun for both James Rottger and Kouban productions to create, and then see take off. It’s a massive accomplishment for a musi…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:11AMMonday, December 9, 2013
Though Let The Right One In is partially centred on a vampire, it is primarily not a horror or even regarded as particularly supernatural. Like John Ajvide Lindqvist’s original Swedish…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:17AMSaturday, December 7, 2013
I think everyone will agree that the idea of Christmas without a flying snowman is a horrific and offensive one and, well, actually it’s just blasphemy. Every year Raymond Briggs’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:37AMMonday, November 11, 2013
The English National Opera (ENO) has once again created something unexpectedly modern and beautifully raw with Mozart’s The Magic Flute, but how on earth does one create such an exception…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:48AMWith alumni including Academy- and Olivier-award winner Dame Helen Mirren, James Bond’s Daniel Craig and Downton Abbey‘s Golden Globe nominated Michelle Dockery, the National You…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:40AMThursday, October 17, 2013
Puccini’s Madam Butterfly is one of the world’s most celebrated operatic achievements. First performed over a century ago in 1904 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, it was later …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:13AMSunday, September 29, 2013
Beethoven’s only opera, first performed in 1805 at the Theater an der Wiem in Vienna, Fidelio has certainly stood the test of time. In this, Calixto Bieito’s second adaption and …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:22AMThursday, September 26, 2013
An epic and destructive blood-soaked tour-de-force, Strauss’ Elektra is no stranger to the Royal Opera House, already seeing revivals in 2003 and 2008. Beginning its journey as Sophocles�…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:28AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Since its wildly successful debut on Broadway ten years ago, Wicked has played all over the world in major cities including Tokyo, Melbourne and, of course, London. What started as a book ha…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:31PMTuesday, September 17, 2013
One of Shakespeare’s darkest and most powerful tragedies, Macbeth was first performed at the beginning of the seventeenth century and has had countless adaptations since, some major pr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:51AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Miranda Sings was created by American comedian, actress and singer Colleen Ballinger, and first introduced via the YouTube channel Mirandasings08 in 2008. The character is a quirky, self-obs…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:44AMSunday, September 8, 2013
Christopher Marlowe is one of England’s most important literary figures, with his work being performed well over 400 years after his death. He and William Shakespeare are often compare…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:35AMFriday, August 30, 2013
Infamous American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in the celebrated 1967 film, have once again been thrust into the public eye. Here they are…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:07PMThursday, August 29, 2013
“I didn’t have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start, I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:49PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
The latest in a long line of A Midsummer Night’s Dream productions (and one of many this summer) comes courtesy of Whistlestop theatre, a new company comprising young emerging talent from …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:26AMDeep within some of the most beautiful woodland North London has, I was to sit through my first ever aerial show by one of the world’s most energetic, boundary-pushing and challenging comp…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:42AMFriday, August 9, 2013
I’ve often thought that what the London Coliseum desperately needs is the sound of Icelandic singing superstar Bjork blasting out from the stage across the magnificent, grand auditoriu…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:07AMWednesday, August 7, 2013
I like adventures very much, probably, in fact, just as much as any child whose thirst for knowledge has only just begun. I’m also a big fan of new discoveries or at least feeling as thoug…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:14AMFriday, August 2, 2013
As a newbie to site-specific productions, I couldn’t help but feel a tad apprehensive walking into Islington’s Hilton Hotel for Dante or Die’s latest piece, I Do. It’s about, yo…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:54PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Showing up 20 minutes late for your own show is by no means a good start but announcing that you’ve come straight from a festival, probably still high on acid and demanding the audience to…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:39AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
It’s very easy to forget about emerging talent, what with shows such as Britain’s Got Talent that really just slam new faces into the public sphere . They subsequently lead people to bel…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:37AM 
