Children and young people's theatre

Audition open days for National Youth Theatre

15 January 2022

The National Youth Theatre is to hold audition open days—free workshops giving young people audition advice and introducing them to theatre-making—at two Midlands venues.

Lancaster on Shlomo's beat

12 January 2022

Beatboxer SK Shlomo is bringing back his five-star show, including two daytime appearances at the Dukes in Lancaster.

More Sorcerer’s Apprentice cancellations

22 December 2021

All remaining performances of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice at Northern Stage have been cancelled.

Mortal Fools are expanding

22 December 2021

Prudhoe-based Mortal Fools opens a second base in Ashington.

BRB and RAD partner to bring professional dance into the classroom

13 December 2021

Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Academy of Dance's new partnership will create stronger links to the professional world of ballet for RAD teachers and their students.

Z-Arts' Gift for youngsters

10 December 2021

Z-arts has Manchester's only show specifically created for ages two to four, The Gift.

Night Tree Films go live online

8 December 2021

Second Hand Dance’s Night Tree Films, based on Eve Bunting’s book Night Tree created for children aged 3–7, are live on Sadler’s Wells digital stage.

Children’s arts festival sparks back into life

25 November 2021

The “best children’s arts festival in the world”, the Spark Festival, will be staged live and online for a week in Leicester in February 2022.

The Remarkable Robin Armstrong’s Extraordinary Christmas Adventure cast announced

19 November 2021

The cast for this year’s Christmas show at Hexham’s Queen’s Hall Arts has been announced

ENB Pipeline Project promotes diversity

8 November 2021

English National Ballet’s new pipeline project, Ballet Futures, is a programme to encourage underrepresented groups.

Curve offers free tickets for Christmas show

6 November 2021

Leicester's Curve theatre has teamed up with a charity to offer free tickets to its family Christmas production.

Wolf Witch Giant and Fairy relaxed at Linbury

3 November 2021

The Royal Opera House is to stage its first fully relaxed run of shows with Little Bulb's Wolf Witch Giant Fairy at Linbury Theatre, in association with Farnham Maltings.

Scottish Opera and Disney collaborate in schools

28 October 2021

Scottish Opera and Disney Musicals in Schools will give five primary schools in Scotland the opportunity to learn and produce their own Disney KIDS musical including The Lion King KIDS and Aladdin KIDS.

Three mice to the rescue!

27 October 2021

Can three mice save a little girl’s Christmas? Children in Co Durham can find out this Christmas in two venues.

ROH Chance to Dance film

15 October 2021

The Royal Opera House will celebrate 30 years of its learning outreach programme Chance to Dance with a special World Ballet Day film.

Scottish Opera's festive children's musical adventure

15 October 2021

Scottish Opera will presents Mister MacNeep Has Lost His Sheep, a festive musical adventure for children aged 3 to 7, at the company’s Edington Street Production Studios in Glasgow.

Ugly Sisters hit back!

3 October 2021

Sisters are doing it for themselves in Sale’s Waterside this Christmas when The Not So Ugly Sisters tell it how it is in a new musical play inspired by Cinderella.

Gramophones tour female role model show

3 October 2021

The Gramophones Theatre Company is to tour Tarzanna, a “jungle aerial adventure for families that encourages children to get into nature and empowers girls to be wild and playful”.

Kitchen Zoo in Newcastle and Stockton

2 October 2021

Children’s theatre company Kitchen Zoo will be reviving two favourite shows this autumn and winter.

A magical Christmas show in Hexham

30 September 2021

Hexham’s Queen’s Hall Arts announces the creative team for its 2021 Christmas show.

Samantha all white on the night

19 September 2021

Samantha Womack is to play the White Witch in C S Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at The Lowry this Christmas.

How long is a piece of string?

13 September 2021

A new interactive show for children is coming to the North East, developed with the support of Dance City.

LGBTQ+ Birmingham festival for children

9 September 2021

An LGBTQ+ festival for 3- to 11-year-old children and their grown-ups is to be held in Birmingham to “celebrate the diversity of identities and alternative families” across the city.

ROH opera and ballet schools matinées

5 September 2021

The Royal Opera House has announced details of this year’s schools’ matinées, bringing ballet and opera to more than 10,000 pupils.

Trafalgar acquires children’s drama academy

2 September 2021

International group Trafalgar Entertainment which runs Stagecoach Performing Arts has acquired the children’s extra-curricular drama organisation Helen O’Grady Drama Academy.

Survivors Guide to Manchester

22 August 2021

Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre’s Young Company, in The Survivors Guide To Living, ask themselves: what does the future hold?

Coming soon: free school meals at Northern Stage

3 August 2021

A show inspired by Marcus Rashford will reopen Northern Stage later this month.

McNicol becomes ENB School Associate

30 July 2021

Choreographer Andrew McNicol has been announced as English National Ballet School’s first Artistic Associate.

Scottish Opera Young Company in Weill première

29 July 2021

Scottish Opera’s Young Company, will perform the Scottish première of Kurt Weill’s absurd one-act comedy The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken.

Shlomo beats it back to The Lowry

25 July 2021

Beatboxer SK Shlomo is bringing his Beatbox Adventure For Kids to The Lowry, Salford.

Bushra backs return of gang plays

25 July 2021

Bushra Ahmed has become an ambassador for a play that shows the stark reality of becoming involved with gangs and guns.

Dance chance for young West Midlanders

21 July 2021

Young dancers aged between 16 and 30 from across the West Midlands are being given the opportunity to get involved in some of the biggest events of 2022.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Laura Lindow, with music by Katie Doherty

Sleeping Beauty and the Beast

Ben Hales, James Dunnell-Smith, John Woodburn, and Joshua George Smith

The Bolds

Written and adapted for the stage by Julian Clary Songs by Julian Clary and S...

The Grimm Hotel

Charles Way and Paul Bosco McEneaney

Verbatim: The Fun Of Making Theatre Seriously

Mark Wheeller

Frozen: the West End Musical

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez Book by Jennifer Lee

Free School Meals

Scripted by Luca Rutherford and devised with the company

Why The Whales Came