Win a family ticket to The Scarecrows’ Wedding at The Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
The Scarecrows’ Wedding is coming to Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre next month – and you could be there with this fantastic giveaway for a family ticket!...
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Naomi’s Wild & Scary at St David’s Hall Cardiff – review
Just five minutes into Naomi’s Wild & Scary at St David’s Hall Cardiff and an alligator snapping turtle has weed all over the stage. Naomi Wilkinson, children’s television presenter and all-round adventurer, just about manages to hold it together and carry on. And then the turtle does it again. The...
You’ve Got Dragons by Taking Flight Theatre at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
You’ve Got Dragons is a thought-provoking children’s theatre show from Cardiff-based Taking Flight theatre company, currently touring Wales. Based on the book by Kathryn Cave, it uses dragons, played by two cast members, as a metaphor for anxieties and worries experienced by children. The play shows that it’s normal...
Win tickets for How to Hack Your Home, the Royal Institution’s live science show at the National Museum Cardiff
The Royal Institution brings its live science show How To Hack Your Home to Cardiff this month – and you could be there with this prize giveaway! Making engineering fun for families, the hour-long show takes place at 6.30pm on Monday 13th March in the Reardon Smith Theatre at the...
Fantastic Mr Fox, New Theatre Cardiff – review
Thanks to the New Theatre for inviting us to review Fantastic Mr Fox in exchange for this review. Fantastic Mr Fox – a new musical stage version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story – certainly lives up the fantastic in its name. I took Little Miss E, 7, and Little Man...
Room on the Broom, New Theatre Cardiff – review
Like a lot of families, Julia Donaldson is a big part of our life. We have a huge collection of her books, which are so well-read we all know them off by heart. We’re always borrowing the ones we don’t own from the library, and have loved the TV adaptations...
WIN! A family ticket to see Room on the Broom at the New Theatre Cardiff!
Room on the Broom comes to Cardiff in an acclaimed musical stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s much-loved children’s picture book – and you could be there with this competition to win a family ticket!...
Magical musical: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at Wales Millennium Centre
I’ve always loved a good musical and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was one of my favourite childhood films. I still know it off by heart after watching it so many times when I was younger. Naturally, I couldn’t wait to introduce it to my three children and, some 48 years...
Peter Pan Jnr at Everyman, Cardiff open air theatre festival – review
The Disney Junior productions at Everyman, Cardiff’s annual open air amateur theatre festival have become one of our summer holiday highlights the last few years. We absolutely loved last year’s Beauty and the Beast and 2014’s The Little Mermaid, and are happy to report that this summer’s show Peter Pan...
The Hunting of the Snark, Sherman Cymru – review
As The Hunting of the Snark drew to an end and we were applauding the cast, Little Man O, my 4¾-year old middle child, asked me if we could watch it again. “I loved it so much Mummy,” he told me. “Can we please come again?” “It was really brilliant,”...
The Cat In The Hat at the New Theatre Cardiff – review
Since it was first published in 1957, as an antidote to the dull and uninspiring children’s first reading books which had been criticised for turning children illiterate, The Cat In The Hat has sold millions of copies worldwide and won countless awards and accolades. It’s a fast-paced and surreal tale...