We’re Going on a Bear Hunt is a cheerful, entertaining, romp of a family show. Ten years after its first performance, it’s back in the West End at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. Director Sally Cookson has created a super theatrical experience for young theatregoers. She skilfully recreates the much-loved world of Michael Rosen […]
Lady Windermere’s Fan at the Vaudeville Theatre – Review
Lady Windermere’s Fan is the second show of Dominic Dromgoole’s Oscar Wilde season at the Vaudeville Theatre. Dromgoole, the former artistic director of The Globe, has set up Classic Spring – a theatre company which produces “proscenium playwrights” in the architectural surroundings for which they wrote. The Vaudeville on the Strand opened in 1870 and […]
Review of The Very Hungry Caterpillar at the Ambassadors Theatre
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show has arrived at The Ambassadors Theatre for a limited 5-week run. This colourful, charming and gentle 60-minute show is perfect for children under five. Despite the title, the show is actually an adaptation of four of Eric Carle’s classic books for children: The Artist who Painted a Blue Horse, Mister […]
Review of Sponge by Turned On Its Head at Battersea Arts Centre
Sponge by the East Midlands dance company Turned on its Head is currently playing at the Battersea Arts Centre. It’s an imaginative and playful dance show perfectly devised for young children. Led by two dancers Shane Shambu and Louise Gibbons, Sponge is a highly visual show with no dialogue and an upbeat 1970s dance soundtrack. […]
The Gruffalo’s Child Live on Stage – Review – Lyric Theatre London
The children’s picture book The Gruffalo’s Child by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler has been adapted for the stage by Tall Stories, the brilliant children’s theatre company founded twenty years ago by Olivia Jacobs and Toby Mitchell. This highly polished musical adaptation is running in the West End over the Christmas period and is guaranteed […]