Pinocchio continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 5 January 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Every scene is so credible that we immerse ourselves fully in Pinocchio’s adventures.
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Pigs Might Fly – New Victoria Theatre, Woking and Touring
Pigs Might Fly was reviewed at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking on 30 May 2023. The UK tour continues until 16 July 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Cast and tour dates for Pigs Might Fly musical
The new musical adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Mudpuddle Farm story Pigs Might Fly will embark on a UK tour this month.
John Owen-Jones, Jessica Daley, Ben Miller & more to take part in live-streamed Ukraine fundraiser
The Barn Theatre and the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham have teamed up to host Stand Up For Ukraine, a night that will benefit refugees fleeing the Ukraine conflict. The show can be live streamed worldwide at 7.30pm BST on Saturday 2 April 2022. The night will consist of a variety line-up including classical music, opera, comedy, […]
You could play a part in British Youth Music Theatre’s wonderfully creative summer season 2022
After two years of isolation and cancellations during the pandemic, theatres are finally coming back to life and start planning for the future. In this context youth theatres are also working as proactively as ever to provide young performers with the kind of social, educational and creative activities they have been lacking for many months. […]
Why The Whales Came – Theatre Royal Plymouth
Why The Whales Came at The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Thanks to the global pandemic and all the long-standing restrictions that came with it, young performers edging their way into the theatre world have taken many a knock back. However, with theatres up and down the country […]
Eleven musicals feature in British Youth Music Theatre’s Summer Season 2021
British Youth Music Theatre (BYMT), the UK’s leading musical theatre company for young people, has announced its 2021 season of summer performances: live in-person productions of 11 musicals presented across the country from 5-29 August 2021. The line-up includes brand new pieces about the earliest known female football team in England and the baby simulators […]
Cirencester’s Barn Theatre to debut outdoor festival
A new co-production of Kander and Ebb’s musical revue The World Goes Round will be among the attractions at the Barn Theatre’s first summer outdoor festival. Following on from the Cirencester venue’s popular lockdown online activity, Barn Fest – Outdoor Theatre Festival will run from Friday (25 July) until 5 September 2020 and will feature […]
Finalists for Wicked Young Writer Awards announced
The organisers of the Wicked Young Writer Awards have announced the 120 finalists who are in the running for this year’s awards which will take place at the London home of Wicked, the Apollo Victoria Theatre on 20 June 2019. Now in its ninth year, the finalists were chosen by a judging panel headed by […]
Eighth Wicked Young Writers Awards opens for business
Leys Primary School in East London was the setting for the launch of the eighth Wicked Young Writer Awards. The Dagenham school was chosen to host the launch as winners of the prize for entering the highest number of submissions to the 2017 awards, 160 in total. The event also included a tailor-made Wicked writing […]
Wicked Young Writers Awards 2017 launched
How to Train Your Dragon author-illustrator Cressida Cowell will return as head judge for the seventh annual Wicked Young Writer Awards. Launched in 2010, the prestigious awards were created by the producers of the multi award-winning musical Wicked in collaboration with the National Literacy Trust and aim to recognise excellence in writing, encourage creativity and […]
Wicked Young Writer Awards 2016 – all the details plus news of non-fiction category
Budding young writers as young as five years old are being invited to enter this year’s Wicked Young Writer Awards. The awards were created by the producers of the multi award-winning musical Wicked in 2010 in collaboration with the National Literacy Trust. Spearheaded by bestselling author Michael Morpurgo, the aim of the awards is to […]
