Top 10 Shows of 2018
Our top 10 picks from 2018 encapsulate the huge variety of shows we’ve seen this year. There’s been immersive theatre, gig theatre, adaptations and musicals; shows about Elizabethan alchemists, dastardly […]
Category Archives: Blogs
Regional: Children’s Theatre to see Christmas 2018
The supermarkets have stocked up on mince pies, and soon every radio station will be playing Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic on a loop. So, here are some highlights from across […]
Buggy spaces and baby changing facilities can be just as important as what’s on stage
Written by Flossie Waite A few years ago, a contributor sent me a review of a concert for babies that she had attended with her child. Almost the entire word […]
What to see in London: May Half Term 2018
From a festival exploring how technology shapes our lives, to adaptations of poems, picturebooks and fairytales young and old, to space bunnies, bees and a star-seeking puppy, May half term […]
Children’s Theatre Festivals 2018
It doesn’t feel that long ago that we were all knee-deep in Christmas tins of Quality Street, and yet here we are with hot cross buns in the shops, and […]
TakeOff Festival 2017
“Watching something like that just makes me want to immediately go and create something,” another delegate tells me at the end of BonteHond’s iPet, a play which combines magic tricks, […]
TakeOff Festival & international theatre
Though Little Red Riding Hood is the oldest show at this year’s TakeOff Festival, this is the first time it is being presented in the UK. Created by Italian company […]
24 hours at TakeOff Festival
At 30 years young, TakeOff Festival is doing what it always has: proving productions for young audiences are profound, unpredictable, hilarious and exciting. Puppet musicals with singing books can be […]
The Hunting of the Snark Factoids
In 1876 Lewis Carroll – the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford – who was also an avid reader and writer of poetry, published […]
“Extending the parameters of what’s possible”: The Spark Arts for Children on libraries, Leicester, & changing the theatre landscape
Out of the corner of my eye, I can see that the group of men formerly tucked away in the newspaper section of Highfields Library have inched closer to join […]
