On Sunday my 6 year old and I went to see Maddie Moate’s Very Curious Christmas at the Garrick Theatre. Maddie, best known for her appearances on Cbeebies, Youtube and Maddie’s Do You Know, is well known for making STEM fun engaging and accessible for all ages and her live show did not disappoint. Maddie who is on work experience
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On Sunday my 6 year old and I went to check out Little Bulb’s The Nutcracker, currently playing at St Martin’s Theatre, better known as The Mousetrap Theatre. Walking in we were greeted with some fantastic pre-show entertainment, a five piece mouse band playing all the classic Christmas favourites. We were all encouraged to sing a long with such festive
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With panto season in full swing my next panto outing took me to Croydon, more specifically the Fairfield Halls for Beauty and The Beast. Having somehow missed previous iterations of Beauty and The Beast as a pantomime I was intrigued to see how they would turn this traditional fairy story into a pantomime. This pantomime however had all the wonderful
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Panto season is in full swing and this was fully evident at New Wimbledon for their press night of Robin Hood. I do love a pantomime having grown up with them as part of my family Christmas tradition and later working front of House for a local pantomime for 7 years in a row but I was more excited than
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Hunger Games on stage officially opened just under a month ago and finally got a chance to see it. As a huge fan of the books I was apprehensive about seeing it and whilst I wasn’t anticipating a production identical to the books due to how different the 2 mediums are I was hoping for the show to emote the
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The show; Stick Man. The tribe; two tired parents, a 3 (and a half – it’s important) year old, and a 1 (and a half – it’s less important) year old. We dutifully packed up half the contents of our house and braved the train into London with two excited toddlers for their first ever experience of (professional) theatre. Our
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Andrew Lloyd Webber seems to be having somewhat of a resurgence at the moment after a stunning summer season at the London Palladium with Evita and with the fastest selling pre-sale in the history of the London Palladium with their 2026 production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Centre Stage are riding on the ALW wave with their own production of Jesus
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I’ve broken this Stagey gift guide Christmas 2025 into 2 parts. The first part has a focus on small businesses and the second half is stagey gifts from businesses of any size. I love a small business so do try and support a small business or shop local if you can. Small Business Stagey Gift Guides: Stage Insider – Musical
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Fresh off the back of Murder in the Dark Torben Betts has produced Murder at Midnight, set on New Years Eve where early arrivals home combined with an unexpected intruder sends the night spiralling into dangerous territory as secrets and manipulation all come to the fore. The production opens with the audience being told about the deceased and the murder
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Dreamgirls is a musical which opened on Broadway in the early 80’s but didn’t come to UK shores until the film in 2006 and the West End production some ten years later in 2016. It tells of a female singing trio called the ‘Dreams’ and follows their rise to success, their friendships and fall outs with each other and their
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