News Archive

30 01 11 Booking opens for new Young Vic season!

Booking for our fantastic 2011/12 season opens for Friends of the Young Vic on Tuesday 1 February at 10am.

15 01 11 Vernon God Little on Radio 4

DBC Pierre, writer of Vernon God Little talks to Peter Curran on Radio 4's Loose Ends about the show...

07 01 11 Buy a Priority Pass today and get priority booking for a whole year

For just £15, you can have a week's priority booking on every show for a whole year and it's a truly unmissable year including Michael Sheen in Hamlet.

07 01 11 Buy a Priority Pass today and get priority booking for a whole year

For just £15, you can have a week's priority booking on every show for a whole year and it's a truly unmissable year including Michael Sheen in Hamlet.

24 11 10 The Glass Menagerie extended until 15 January

Due to popular demand, the play will now run until Saturday 15 January 2011.

22 11 10 Hear about the Young Vic's 40th season on BBC Radio 2

BBC newsreader Jane Hill talks to artistic director David Lan on the occasion of the Young Vic's 40th season.

19 11 10 The Culture Show comes to the Young Vic

BBC Two's flagship arts programme The Culture Show features the Young Vic's production of The Glass Menagerie.

18 11 10 Stars unite for Belarus Free Theatre event

Jude Law, Ian McKellen and Samuel West take to the stage in support of Belarus Free Theatre.

27 10 10 Young Vic nominated for three Evening Standard awards

The Young Vic has received three nominations in the 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane received two nominations - Joe Hill-Gibbins for Best Director and Rosaleen Linehan for the prestigious Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress.

26 10 10 Michael Sheen talks about playing Hamlet on Radio 4

In anticipation of his playing Hamlet at the Young Vic in Winter 2011, Michael Sheen recently featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Playing the Dane.

19 10 10 Faust - extra performance added

Due to overwhelming popular demand, we've added an extra performance of Faust on Wednesday 27th October at 2.45pm.

All other performance have been sold out for some weeks now, so book now whilst tickets are still available!

17 09 10 Pet Shop Boys to compose music for Young Vic Christmas show

World famous electronic duo Pet Shop Boys will compose the music to My Dad's a Birdman by David Almond, the Carnegie and Whitbread award-winning author of Skellig.

10 09 10 David Shrigley video - save the arts

Over 100 leading artists – among them David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Jeremy Deller and Antony Gormley – have joined together to fight government cuts in one area where Britain still leads the world: culture.

12 08 10 Kafka's Monkey arrives in Paris

Kafka's Monkey, which opened at the Young Vic last March, is due to play at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris this autumn.

22 07 10 The Beauty Queen of Leenane reviewed

Click on the following links to read reviews of the Young Vic's production of Martin McDonagh's
The Beauty Queen of Leenane...

08 07 10 Young Vic 40th Anniversary Season announced!

The Young Vic's 40th Anniversary Season goes on sale today.

30 06 10 An interview with Susan Lynch...

Over the next few weeks we'll be interviewing cast members from our next Main House show The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

17 05 10 Watch the trailer for Joe Turner's Come and Gone!

Click here to watch the trailer for the Young Vic production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson.

13 05 10 Michael Sheen to play Hamlet

Actor Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, The Damned United) is confirmed to play Hamlet in winter 2011.