Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Spare Tyre Theatre Company continues its creative engagement with the care sector with this gentle, participatory piece for people with dementia. A
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMFriday, June 30, 2017
Ed Thomas’ first play, written in 1988, is an anguished portrait of a Welsh mining village in its death throes seen through
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:25AMThursday, March 16, 2017
In some ways, this production sees Spare Tyre reflecting on its own motivation: the show-within-a-show format has a cast of older performers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMFriday, February 20, 2015
Greenwich Theatre, London: With noise levels fit to shiver the stage timbers and frequent injunctions to join in with the fun, this exuberant collision of two child-magnets, pirates and dino…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Greenwich Theatre, London: Kenneth Grahame's wistfully bucolic tale is led a merry song and dance in this clap-along musical adaptation. The boastful toad's comeuppance unfolds wit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMMonday, December 22, 2014
Tabard, London: At a time of year when fairy-tale treasures are cheerfully plundered for feel-good family shows, Carol Ann Duffy's story about what would happen in the absence of comfor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMMonday, December 15, 2014
Broadway Theatre, London: The Broadway Theatre's popular pantomime is always a sparkly parcel of telly stars, razzmatazz and fairytale that squeezes in every generic convention for a bu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMFriday, December 12, 2014
Jack Studio Theatre, London: The irresistible, but ultimately refutable, seafaring adventures of infamous yarn spinner Louis de Rougemont are storytelling gold, laced with a generous measure…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Unicorn, London: This story for children aged four upwards serves as a timely warning about appreciating what you have, and the folly of seeking fulfilment in the acquisition of worldly good…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
Churchill Theatre Bromley, London: An impressive, princely flight through time and space means this pantomime Beauty doesn't have to spend too long slumbering. In fact, she comes within…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:21AMMonday, December 1, 2014
Polka Theatre, London: Modern adaptations of the 1904 play tend to make Wendy less wet and Peter more sympathetic; Peter Glanville's is no exception. This Peter Pan for everyone aged fr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMMonday, November 17, 2014
The Maria, Young Vic Theatre, London: It may start as a weirdly cultish game of follow my leader, but this piece for four to seven year olds ends on such an endorphin rush that the whole fam…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMMonday, November 3, 2014
Canada Water Culture Space, London: Hans Christian Andersen's tearjerker The Little Match Girl was the spark for this slow-burner for children aged from two to six, and it's an ima…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMThursday, October 30, 2014
Fairfield Halls, London: A whole generation of small fry has fallen hook, line and sinker for the Octonauts, a CBeebies series about a submarine crew whose mission is to "explore, rescu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:27PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Greenwich Theatre, London: An explosion is never far away in this highly concentrated commemoration of the First World War for young people aged from 13. Together with the references to mud,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMMonday, September 22, 2014
Unicorn Theatre, London: Puppets are good at expressing the essential absurdity of the human condition, as Larry proves in this bite-sized commentary on work-life balance for everyone aged f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Polka Theatre, London: Long before Tellytubbyland, Tove Jansson's fantasy world of Moominvalley, inhabited by similarly rotund, benevolent creatures of non-specific origin, kept generat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMFriday, June 13, 2014
Unicorn Theatre, London: In this two-hander adapted by Jemma Kennedy from Finnish author Tove Janssen's novel, a weary grandmother and her six-year-old charge spend the summer months on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Unicorn Theatre, London: Engineer Colin Tonks and Electric Pedals bring new meaning to the term physical theatre by having an on-stage team pedalling static bikes generating the electricity …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Jack Studio Theatre, Brockley, London: As a cocky young enfant terrible of the Left Bank, Pablo Picasso was arrested on suspicion of stealing the Louvre's darling in 1911. The experienc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
The Jack Studio Theatre, London: New Yorker Charles Ludlam's high-camp melodrama, in which two actors share an unfeasibly large number of roles, was first performed to rapturous reviews…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMMonday, December 16, 2013
The Albany, London: Nick Butterworth's ever-obliging parkie finds himself with some strange bedfellows in this pretty-as-a picture book production. A soothing confection of simple songs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AMBloomsbury Theatre, London: In this compact two-hander for Christmas, a CBeebies stalwart teams up with his counterpart from Italian telly for a playful bout of European circus theatre, Marc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Discover Children's Story Centre, Stratford: There are few venues more suited to this malleable flight of fancy than Discover. A show built around the diversionary potential of a giant lump …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMFriday, November 29, 2013
Unicorn Theatre, London: The familiar core of cruelty and comeuppance in the Grimm story is overlaid with wit and pleasing eccentricity in this version. In the tradition of Unicorn Christmas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMMonday, October 21, 2013
Polka Theatre, Wimbledon: To celebrate 30 years since the award-winning picture book was published, Polka Theatre has created a Gorilla that just about fits into its tiny Adventure Theatre s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMFriday, June 28, 2013
Rose Lipman Building, London: Giving the expression 'a run on the bank' a whole new meaning, this promenade show for everyone aged from five takes its audience on an interactive jo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMFriday, April 19, 2013
Ascroft, Croydon: The little dog that launched a whole lift-the-flap publishing phenomenon has seen about 33 birthdays, all told. He's still the exuberant young pup he ever was, as this…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Albany, London: BandBazi (Farsi for trapeze) Theatre Company uses aerial circus rig to heighten the dramatic experience. In this affecting study of the devastation wrought by Alzheimer'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMTuesday, December 18, 2012
Barbican, London: Leeds-based Slung Low have a reputation for creating theatrical adventures in unusual places. Their Christmas special for over-sevens has families join a frantic route marc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:12AMFriday, December 14, 2012
Jack Studio Theatre, London: This was Ridley's most successful play, written in 1923 and transferring to the West End before being made into a film comedy starring Arthur Askey.
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