Theatre

19 February 2010 to 20 February 2010

Radlett Centre WD7 8HL[map]

Abba Mania the concert takes you back in time by recreating one of the world's finest pop groups in a live stage performance. Join in and enjoy all of your favourites including: Mamma Mia, Voulez Vous, Dancing Queen, Winner Takes It All, Super Trouper and many more.

8 December 2009 to 3 January 2010

Brockley Jack Theatre SE4 2DH[map]

The seasonal classic is given a imaginative and timely reworking in Neil Bartlett's magical adaptation.

9 December 2009

Queen's Theatre Hornchurch RM11 1QT[map]

The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge gets a last chance at redemption given by his long dead colleague Jacob Marley but must heed the lessons shown to him by the three spirits of Christmas past, present and future.

9 December 2009 to 9 January 2010

Southwark Playhouse SE1 2TF[map]

Become Victorian clerks for the night as you join Scrooge on his terrifying and transformative journey through the dark vaults of London Bridge Station accompanied by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

27 March 2010

Half Moon Theatre E1 0ND[map]

A tiny boat, a little lost man and the great wide ocean. How he get there, how can he get home and why do those fish keep biting him on the bottom? Singing whales, pestering pirates and a multitude of deep-sea creatures swim to the surface in this fantastic aquatic adventure from Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company. Age range: 3+ years.

24 November 2009 to 28 November 2009

Brockley Jack Theatre SE4 2DH[map]

A play about a young couple's attempts at coping with their daughter's disabilities. This dark, but very funny comedy sees the couple using fantasy and humour to try to bring joy into their daughter's and their own lives, despite the prejudices of both friends and family.

28 January 2010 to 31 January 2010

Institute of Contemporary Arts SW1Y 5AH[map]

From France, extraordinary animation theatre in seven short episodes, mysterious, unconventional and entertainingly quirky. A Distances is a micro-epic for two performers, shadows, puppets, objects, sounds, imagination and wonderful, clanking, Heath-Robinson-style machinery.

17 December 2009 to 23 December 2009

Pleasance Theatre Islington N7 9EF[map]

Armed with spades and Albert's trusty toothpick, our grave-digging heroes try to tunnel back to Blighty in time to taste Daphne's Battenburg.

26 November 2009 to 3 January 2010

Millfield Arts Centre N18 1PJ[map]

A pantomime telling of exotic lands, Chinese laundries, genies, emperors and evil sorcerers, magic lamps, caves and flying carpets. Follow the antics of loveable rogue Aladdin and his long suffering mother, the delightfully saucy Widow Twanky. Swoon as he falls for the beautiful Princess, daughter of the Emperor and love to hate his wicked Uncle Abbanazar. With whizzy special effects, puppetry and a genie-ous cast.

28 November 2009 to 16 January 2010

Theatre Royal Stratford East E15 1BN[map]

A pantomime performance of Aladdin for the whole family.

18 December 2009 to 10 January 2010

The Epsom Playhouse KT18 5AL[map]

A traditional pantomime for all the family to ride on the magic carpet to meet up with those hilarious characters Wishee Washee and Widow Twankey and Aladdin himself. Join them in a fun packed Christmas spectacular with dazzling costumes, great songs and gags galore.

30 December 2009 to 30 January 2010

Bob Hope Theatre SE9 5TG[map]

4 December 2009 to 5 December 2009

Tricycle Theatre, Cinema & Gallery NW6 7JR[map]

A magical show with comedy, catchy songs, music, dance and colourful scenery.

1 April 2010

Radlett Centre WD7 8HL[map]

Made famous by movies starring Michael Caine and more recently Jude Law, Alfie is the brilliant, original stage play about a young man with an overwhelming desire for the ladies. You might say that 'birds' are irresistible to him, sort of second nature. There's Ruby - 'A lust box in beautiful condition'; Clare - 'You're all lathered in sweat, Alfie'; and Siddie, and Clara, and Annie - but who's counting? Certainly not Alfie. Three in one evening if necessary.

1 December 2009 to 6 December 2009

The Beck Theatre UB3 2UE[map]

Ali Baba, his brother Wali and their trusty camel Humphrey, set out to free the citizens of the tyranny of the mysterious thief. And it’s not just freedom they’re after the Caliph has offered half his Kingdom as a reward. Ali could use some wealth as he has fallen for the Princess. But does the devilish Mustapha Go thwart their plans? Come and find out.

10 April 2010

The Epsom Playhouse KT18 5AL[map]

This wonderful story of a parentless girl courageously resisting hunger and cruelty at the hands of her headmistress, Miss Minchin, is one of the most inspiring of all the children's classics. Her eventual triumph and the downfall of her oppressor makes for wonderful theatre. With the opportunity for some children to take part as actors and the whole audience as the chorus singers this is family theatre at its very best.

30 November 2009 to 3 December 2009

Guildhall School of Music and Drama  EC2Y 8DT[map]

In Duke Theseus' court, Athenian law prevails, but in the forest Oberon and Titania hold sway and while they quarrel, nature, love and even theatre are in chaos. In Shakespeare's action-packed comedy of enchantment, lovers entangle, fairies make mischief and Peter Quince attempts tragedy with his company of actors but raises more laughter.

9 February 2010 to 27 March 2010

Rose Theatre Kingston KT1 1HL[map]

A production of Shakespeare's magical comedy.

6 December 2009

Harrow Arts Centre HA5 4EA[map]

A multimedia play of two Jewish families interwoven with interviews with Holocaust survivors Ed Silverberg and Eva Schloss and live actors recreating scenes from their lives during World War Two.