Thanks to Welsh National Opera for providing us with review tickets for Play Opera Live As Tom Redmond, our host for this afternoon’s family concert, jokes, the orchestra of Welsh National Opera are used to performing in the pit underneath, so it’s great that they didn’t get lost trying to...
I put off writing this half term events guide because I was waiting to see how things were looking with all the Covid restrictions. As I’m sure you can imagine, they take a while to put together so I didn’t want to do all the work for no reason. Well,...
Thank you to the New Theatre for providing us with press tickets to review Hairspray Having entertained theatre audiences for more than 20 years, smash hit musical Hairspray is back in Cardiff for a week-long run as part of its UK tour. I took my seven year old youngest child...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with tickets to Bedknobs and Broomsticks for the purpose of this review When restrictions forced Wales Millennium Centre to close suddenly just before Christmas, it meant Disney’s Beauty and the Beast couldn’t finish its run in Cardiff. So it seems fitting that...
Disclaimer: Thank you to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with two complimentary review tickets for the show. We paid for the other tickets ourselves. I knew Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was going to be incredible – it’s a big budget Disney musical, after all. Yet however incredible I...
Thank you to Carrot Productions for kindly providing us with press tickets in exchange for this review I don’t remember the first time I watched The Snowman. I was four and a half when it was first aired in 1982. But I do remember it being a staple at Christmas...
Thanks to the New Theatre for providing us with review tickets for this performance Within moments of the New Theatre’s Aladdin starting, we are enthusiastically booing and hissing our resident baddie Abanazar (a wonderfully wicked Stefan Pejic) and laughing along at locally-themed jokes. After last year’s lockdown-induced hiatus, it’s clear...
Paid collaboration with the Sherman Theatre If you saw our review of A Christmas Carol at the Sherman Theatre earlier in the week, you’ll know how much we adored this magical theatrical experience. It’s funny, heart-warming and filled with incredible performances from a strong cast of actor-musicians. This new adaptation...
Paid collaboration. Cardiff Mummy Says is a blogger ambassador for The Red Dragon Centre. A giant elf tree house, a winter wonderland tea party, and two mischievous elves are among the family-friendly Christmas festivities at The Red Dragon Centre this Christmas. Plus there’s festive bowling at Hollywood Bowl, classic Christmas...
Thanks to Ed’s Easy Diner for inviting us along for food and an exclusive preview screening of Clifford The Big Red Dog Ed’s Easy Diner is a national chain of 1950s style restaurants serving up shakes, fries and burgers. Their Cardiff restaurant is located in St David’s Shopping Centre –...
Thank you to the Sherman Theatre for providing us with review tickets for A Christmas Carol in exchange for this review The Sherman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol is an absolutely brilliant and clever piece of theatre – I saw it at last night’s press night with my 11 and 10...