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Christmas shows

December 2023

  • English National Ballet’s James Streeter as The Mouse King and Junor Sousa as the Nutcracker.

    The Nutcracker review – English National Ballet and the Royal Ballet’s annual festive face-off

  • A set like a paper pop-up … Florence Poskitt, Terence Rae and Eve Tucker in A Town Called Christmas.

    A Town Called Christmas review – merry mission to restore festive spirit

  • Support cast of plush seagulls … Lost and Found.

    Lost and Found review – catchy songs and breezy fun as Gruff Rhys steers Oliver Jeffers’ story

  • Skeleton Dance in Lea Anderson’s Zoetrope by National Dance Company Wales.

    Zoetrope review – skeletons rattle up a surreal Christmas show

  • Scottish Ballet: Cinders! review – zippy gender-swap ballet is a festive treat

  • Beauty and the Beast review – energetic cast make five a festive stageful

  • Wendy: A Peter Pan Story review – an awfully modern adventure

  • Glacier review – wild-swimming tale paddles in the shallows

  • Cinderella: A Fairytale review – Ella and her prince bond over shared passion, not money or status

  • Richard Curtis’s Christmas Actually raises the ghost of ropey light-entertainment past

    Brian Logan

  • From exhilarating Oliver! to a mardy Beast in the east – three of the best Christmas family shows

  • Midnight Mole review – puppet’s cheery takeover of Chekhov’s garden

  • Play time
    Solstice review – a shimmering, heart-on-sleeve ode to nature for children

November 2023

  • Rough and ready delight … Nicholas Karimi and Yasemin Özdemir in Arabian Nights at Bristol Old Vic.

    Arabian Nights review – warming festive treat with bags of scrappy charm

  • Cinderella is confronted by the huge wicker head of the badger goddess

    Cinderella review – festive fairytale adds a sprinkling of socialism

  • Eliza Blair as Pinocchio at Hull Truck.

    Pinocchio review – no wooden acting in an action-packed musical voyage

  • Familiar and strange … The Snow Queen.

    The Snow Queen review – bold, imaginative and richly musical

  • The Lightbulb Princess review – sparkling electrickery for kids

  • The Snow Queen review – flurry of fun needs more sense of adventure

  • She Stoops to Conquer review – a jolly good Christmas comedy

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