Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with tickets to review Pontypool Wicked might be selling out Wales Millennium Centre’s Donald Gordon Theatre – but Pontypool, which opened in the smaller Weston Studio on 30 October, is also currently wowing audiences in its own very different way. Tense and...
Stage musical Wicked has been selling out theatres for more than 20 years. It’s been seen by 65 million people worldwide, has more than 100 international awards to its name, is the fourth longest running show on Broadway and 10th longest-running show in the West End. And with the first...
Paid collaboration with Dramatic Heart of Wales, the tourism board for Neath Port Talbot. Fright Nights at Margam Country Park is a brand new Halloween experience for 2024. Choose from Spooky Family Fun, a PG-rated event with an age guidance of 5+, or the Spine Chilling Extreme Horror, with a...
These photos were taken the last time I went for a run – back in mid-June. I had to pull out midway through the ultra marathon I’d spent six months training for due to a pain in my knee/hip that came from nowhere. I haven’t been able to run since...
My youngest child, of three, is now in year 6. Secondary school applications are open, transition days are being organised, he can’t wait to get a leavers’ hoodie. When I started Cardiff Mummy Says, he was an eight month old baby with a two year old brother and a four...
I’m a ball of emotions this morning with all three children back to school today. Year 10 and the start of GCSEs for my eldest, year 8 for my middle, and year 6 for my youngest. Our last first day of primary; our last year at a school we absolutely...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with review tickets to Blood Brothers Still selling out theatres more than 40 years since it first took to the stage, Blood Brothers is at Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre this week as part of its latest UK tour. And this emotionally powerful...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with review tickets for Heathers the Musical Based on the cult 1988 film, West End award-winning musical Heathers returns to Cardiff as part of its current UK tour, the perfect theatre outing this summer for those of you with teens, or anyone...
Thanks to Wales Millennium Centre for providing us with review tickets for The Wizard of Oz for the purpose of this review Craig Revel Horwood as the Wicked Witch of Oz is the theatrical treat I didn’t know I needed this summer. He’s in Cardiff all this week in The...
We received tickets to Shrek The Musical Jr for the purpose of this review Shrek The Musical Jr is such a fun and energetic show, the perfect start to the school summer holidays. Featuring a cast of talented local young people from Go Productions, it’s part of Cardiff Open Air Theatre...
100+ family-friendly events in and around Cardiff for the 2024 summer holidays I think this must be my biggest, most comprehensive school holiday event guide yet! There’s so much going on, from theatre performances, to museum exhibitions and craft activities, to family fun days, science workshops and lots more. Events...