Big Up! is created by Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories High for children.
Outstanding contribution to arts and culture for families has been recognised in the Fantastic for Families Awards.
More than 30 young actors from award-winning youth theatre programme Young Everyman Playhouse will make their debut on the Playhouse main stage.
Leicester’s Curve is to host the 2019 National Student Drama Festival—an annual festival that gives people aged between 16 and 25 the opportunity to showcase their work and try something new.
A venue and a dance company from the North East have won Fantastic for Families Awards
Nottingham Playhouse artistic director Adam Penford will continue his programming of titles aimed at schools and family audiences with the stage adaptation of David Almond’s Skellig.
Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom comes to St Helens Theatre Royal.
Theatre makers join forces to present Romeo and Juliet – Mad Blood Stirring, an introduction to the timeless story.
Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake has a programme of events for young theatregoers from February until April.
The Octagon Theatre is inviting young people in Bolton aged 11 to 25 to present ideas for a takeover day.
The inaugural British Youth Music Theatre award has been won by Rachel Bellman and Elizabeth Charlesworth for The Dickens Girls, which they based on a true story of fallen women.
The Customs House in South Shields presents a detective story with a difference for half-term.
City of Dreams brings Our City Our Story to Live Theatre, giving under-25s a platform to tell their own stories and shape the future of the city.
The Customs House receives lottery funding for three creative projects with looked-after children in South Tyneside.
Elmer the Patchwork Elephant celebrates a live stage adaptation at The Lowry.
Tigers, rabbits and bees are on their way to The Dukes in Lancaster.
The Hullabaloo, Darlington’s theatre for children, has announced its season from February to June.
Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat will open the 2019 season at Liverpool Playhouse.
AniMalcolm, based on the children’s book by David Baddiel, will play the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool.
Birmingham REP will be walking in the air when its live show of Raymond Briggs’s book The Snowman returns to the Midlands as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations.
More shows for children and young people at Northern Stage than ever before.
New kids’ shows for spring in Gosforth and Byker.
Two NE venues have been shortlisted for Fantastic for Families Awards
Pilot Theatre presents the première of Sabrina Mahfouz's new adaption of Malorie Blackman’s award-winning novel Noughts and Crosses at The Lowry in Salford.
Tara Arts and Polka Theatre will tour Shamser Sinha's Three Sat under the Banyan Tree from January to March 2019.
Twirlywoos—as seen on CBeebies—will be brought to life on stage for the first time next year.
Bing and friends will be extending their first ever UK stage show tour of Bing Live into 2019.
The BTG has just set up a separate section for Children's and Young Peoples' Theatre. Peter Lathan explains why.
Peter Lathan reports on the launch of City of Dreams, a NewcastleGateshead initiative to engage 165,000 children and young people in culture and creativity every year for the next decade.
William Shakespeare, In a new version for young audiences by Justin Audibert National Theatre Dorfman Theatre (National Theatre) 6 to 21 February 2019
Devised by Mole Wetherell, Kevin Egan, Tim Ingram, Leen Dewilde & Alex Covel Reckless Sleepers Unicorn Theatre (Clore Theatre) 2 February to 10 March 2019
Malorie Blackman, adapted by Sabrina Mahfouz Pilot Theatre, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Derby Theatre, Mercury Theatre Colchester and York Theatre Royal Derby Theatre 1 to 16 February 2019
Katrin Lange, translated by Purni Morell Unicorn Theatre Unicorn Theatre (Weston Theatre) 26 January to 10 March 2019
Le Gateau Chocolat, Flick Ferdinando, Tommy Bradson Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre 20 to 31 December 2018
Andy Manley Catherine Wheels Theatre Company HOME Manchester 13 to 23 December 2018
Michael Fowkes Little Angel Theatre Royal Exchange Theatre Studio 13 to 30 December 2018
Devised by Sally Cookson, Adam Peck and the original company The Jack Studio Theatre The Jack Studio Theatre 12 December 2018 to 5 January 2019
Tim Webb with rap lyrics by BREIS Oily Cart Arts Depot 11 to 31 December 2018
Mike Kenny, based on the short story by the Brothers Grimm York Theatre Royal York Theatre Royal 11 December 2018 to 5 January 2019
Sarah Argent Theatre Hullabaloo The Exchange, North Shields 1 December 2018
The Brothers Grimm, adapted by Mike Kenny Derby Theatre Derby Theatre 30 November 2018 to 5 January 2019
Susan Mulholland Gala Theatre production Gala Theatre, Durham 29 November to 30 December 2018
Mary Norton, adapted for stage by Bea Roberts Tobacco Factory Theatres Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol 29 November 2018 to 20 January 2019
Hannah Goudie-Hunter, Bob Nicholson & Brad McCormick Kitchen Zoo Northern Stage, Newcastle 27 November 2018 to 5 January 2019
Mike Kenny, adapted from the short story by Hans Christian Andersen Tutti Frutti York Theatre Royal 27 September to 13 October 2018
