57 stories by "Jo Caird"
In April it will be 20 years since Mamma Mia! first opened in the West End and 45 years since Abba won
For more than four decades, the London International Mime Festival has welcomed performers from all over the globe, but this year it
Jessie, the little girl protagonist of Can't Wait for Christmas! has been given a tempting-looking present by her dad. The trouble is,
No one does scene-setting for young audiences better than Oily Cart. Rather than just taking their seats, audience members at Hippity Hop
The Wrong Crowd has a lot of fun with this loose adaptation of the classic fairytale. Relocated to a 1950s beauty salon
Huddle may be set on an icy tundra but it's impossible not to warm to this tale of a father penguin and his fearless
It's been four years since theatremaker Chris Goode gave us a solo show " Men in the Cities in 2014 " but the long
Early years company La Petita Malumaluga have performed this tribute to the Fab Four all over the world and it's not hard to see
Small Wonders, a new commission for the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), boasts the same extraordinary attention to detail and power
Happily-ever-afters are so ubiquitous in work for children that a story that embraces ambiguity is a refreshing experience. Based on the picture
After 37 years at the helm of Oily Cart, which works with 'the most hard to reach', Tim Webb is stepping down,
Today is Sophie's 16th birthday, so her mother is baking a cake. As Danyah Miller (who co-wrote the show with John Miller)
Based on a poem by the former Children's Laureate, this diverting show from Polka Theatre artistic director Peter Glanville and singer-songwriter Barb
After becoming a choreographer almost by accident, Randy Skinner went on to develop some of Broadway and the West End's most enduring
Women are few and far between when it comes to orchestras, but a recent snapshot of the West End showed no female
If you have a child, you'll have read Dear Zoo " many, many times probably. First published in 1982, this simple story
Leaving their baby daughter with a sitter for the night, Bronagh and Graeme go to a party at the working men's club
Julius Caesar isn't the most obvious choice for an audience of children aged seven to 13, but director Marieke Audsley's new production,
Established just two years ago, Parents in the Performing Arts has launched a charter and toolkit to help theatres become inclusive and
Every aspect of the theatre experience has been carefully considered in Hush-A-Bye, a gently interactive show for children aged three to five (there's a
Part of a year-long celebration of Oscar Wilde at the Vaudeville, Wilde Creatures takes a look at the writer's lesser known works " his fairy
Telling a story through contemporary circus is a feat attempted by many, but achieved by regrettably few. With The Ramshackle House, Upswing
Tutti Frutti Productions begins its adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's story of a baby bird hatched into the wrong nest using puppetry, then
Richard O'Brien loves populist things. "I really am a small-brained human being, and adolescence formed all of my fantasies and my journey,"
Brian Blessed, it turns out, is a hard man to interrupt. Not until nearly two hours after my arrival at the Surrey
