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For Kid Carpet's latest show for the younger generation at BOV is packed full of questions like this. Children's theatre may be seen as the poor relation to the more grown up stuff by some o…
This musical version of Louisa May Alcott's much-loved novel is a wonderful piece of adaptation. Streamlining plot whilst simultaneously enriching character, it translates the travails of th…
This spirited, age-blind revival at the Park Theatre of Denise Deegan's 1983 girls' boarding school classic is a bit too boisterous for its own good.
As Black Friday and New Year bashes grow exponentially, child poverty in the UK is on the rise. The Little Match Girl may have her origins in the Victorian era and snow flecked tales of Hans…
The set of 23 songs was varied and extremely well put together with a mixture of festive favourites, Les Mis hits and some more unexpected songs. Standout moments included I'll Be Home For C…
There's a wonderfully rough magic to Justin Audibert's production of The Box of Delights that makes it the perfect choice for Wilton's Music Hall's festive show.
This Guys and Dolls is the perfect feel-good Christmas production. Playing out in-the-round on the Royal Exchange's iconic stage, you'll be left with a spring in your step and a smile on you…
'Tis the season to remember those less fortunate than ourselves and David Edgar's stirring new adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, doesn't st…
As many of us lurch from swapping random Secret Santa gifts at office parties to necking eggnog at pantos (just me?!) in preparation for the culinary bliss that is my dad's Christmas dinner,…
At the time of writing, Stagedoor, the app dedicated to helping audiences discover great theatre, announces that it has raised more than £319,000 in the first three weeks of its Seedrs cr…
Welcome to La Soiree! The naughtiest burlesque, circus, cabaret, comedy sideshow you ever will see, with something for everybody!
The trouble with The Woman in White is that if you dissect the elements Andrew Lloyd Webber fused into the show, they're all perfectly fine. You could also add that Thom Southerland's produ…
A magical tale of a boy who never grows up, the familiar story that follows Peter from a baby lost in Kensington Park to 'The Neverland' where he becomes 'Pan' the leader of the lost boys, s…
'Tis the season to be jolly… so what could be more jolly than a trip to see some circus? Here's our video round up, with some holly on top!
The Bush Theatre, a highly respected and popular Off-West End theatre in buzzing Shephard's Bush, is currently home to a show that's origins take it back North to the Royal Exchange Theatre …
Can I recommend Goats, even with live goats appearing onstage with the cast? Not by the hairs on my chinny chin chin. There's definitely something interesting at the nub of Liwaa Yazji's pla…
Yesterday evening I hot-footed it from the Charing Cross theatre seeing Marisha Wallace's Soul Holiday concert, to the Spiegeltent in Leicester Square to see Velma Celli in concert and it wa…
The race to declare the most exciting show for 2018 has well and truly been declared by Complicite with Grief is the Thing with Feathers, a new production based on the award-winning novel by…
Always expect the unexpected when it comes to watching La Soiree is one piece of advice that is good to pass on to potential audience members for this well loved cabaret show.
101 Dalmatians " no easy feat for a stage production, one might imagine, getting all those dalmatians up on stage in one go with no unruly canine behaviour, etc. What's the answer? Use puppe…
The Tradition versus Progress conflict sits along side the moral question of whether or not we should be perpetuating these attitudes in young children " who don't know enough to see these p…
I could try and describe a plot that included strict fathers, thought-dead mothers, butterfly collecting, mannequin construction, and cat murder but it's impossible to convey how sublimely s…
If Christmas shows are measured by the smile it puts on our faces and the gales of laughter elicited from the younger ones, then this is a stone-iron smash.
Are you a fan of Victorian melodrama? Are you a fan of Musicals? And finally, are you a fan of the work of 'The Lord' " you know who I mean? If you can answer yes to at least two of these, t…
Colourful: A great deal of straightforward fun for young and old is to be had from Shark in the Park in the Festival Square Spiegeltent as part of Edinburgh's Christmas.
