Scamp Theatre News

Ten years after its first UK tour, the smash-hit production of We're Going on a Bear Hunt returns to the West End at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue from 4 July. Music, laughter, rhymes, rhythms and repetitions together with puppetry, paint, water and mud... not to mention a bear - we're not scared! - make this fun-filled adventure the perfect theatrical outing for all young families.

Watford Palace Theatre today announce full casting for their revival of Arthur Miller's play Broken Glass, which opens 80 years after the events of Kristallnacht, leading up to the Second World War. Richard Beecham directs Charlotte Emerson (Sylvia Gellburg), Clara Francis (Harriet), Andrew Hall(Stanton Case) Michael Higgs (Dr Harry Hyman), Rebecca Lacey (Margaret Hyman) and Michael Matus (Philip Gellburg). Broken Glass opens at Watford Palace Theatre on 6 March, with previews from 1 March and runs until 24 March.

It's been a big year for theatre in Tuscon and tuscon.com has announced its list of this year's Mac Award nominees and winners. Check out the full list below!

Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy have announced their December 2017 lineups. Scroll down for details!

This joyful adaptation of Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's bestselling book, Stick Man, returns to Leicester Square Theatre for another enchanting festive adventure.

This joyful adaptation of Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's bestselling book, Stick Man, returns to Leicester Square Theatre for another enchanting festive adventure.

Following six consecutive Christmas seasons in London's West End and multiple UK and international tours, the joyful adaptation of Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's bestselling book, Stick Man, is back on the road again for another enchanting UK tour, running September 2017 through January 2018.

Following six consecutive Christmas seasons in London's West End and multiple UK and international tours, the joyful adaptation of Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's bestselling book, Stick Man, is back on the road again for another enchanting UK tour, running September 2017 through January 2018.

Director of Nuffield Southampton Theatres, Sam Hodges, today announced NST Campus' Autumn season, featuring a varied programme of high quality touring work including West End hits People, Places & Things and Hetty Feather. The season is announced as NST moves closer to the opening of NST City, their newly acquired theatre in Southampton's city centre arts venue.

The Mercury Theatre hits the road this summer, with a production of Michael Morpurgo's Farm Boy which is currently touring to 32 schools across the south east before visiting the Mercury on 17 - 18 June.

Jennifer Sutherland, co-founder of the multi award-winning Scamp Theatre, has launched Freckle Productions with a focus on bringing inspirational stories to the stage for children, young people and families.

Bristol Old Vic today announced the next raft of productions to hit its stage throughout 2017.   

Straight from London's West End, this truly heart-warming adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's bestselling book is bursting at the seams with Scamp Theatre's inimitable style (Stick Man, Tiddler & Other Terrific Tales) and promises wit, drama, and wedding bells as you're invited to Betty O'Barley and Harry O'Hay's glorious wedding day.

In 2017 Watford Palace Theatre proudly presents the world premiere musical I Capture the Castle, based on the iconic novel by Dodie Smith, and co-produced with the Octagon Theatre Bolton and Kevin Wallace Limited, in association with Deborah Ward.

Following record-breaking sales across the UK tour and during a 6-week Christmas season at Warwick Arts Centre, Scamp Theatre have announced that the award-winning Stick Man's return to the West End has been extended.

Olivier award-winning producer Sue Scott Davison, Creative Programmer of the Broadway Theatre - a new mid-scale theatre in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, only half an hour from London - today announces the venue's inaugural season which will run from February to May 2017.

Rifco Artistic Director Pravesh Kumar today announces the UK tour of the world premiere Miss Meena & the Masala Queens, written by Harvey Virdi.

This award-winning production is packed full of puppetry, songs, live music and funky moves... it is the perfect festive family entertainment!

The Greenwich Theatre announces its Autumn 2016 season! Beginning with the How Small How Far Production of Garden, the company will present and produce two dozen productions in the coming autumn months. Details for each production are below. For more information, visit http://www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk.

Struggling to fill the school holidays, and no luck getting Cursed Child tickets? Fear not - there are plenty of fantastic London theatre options for family audiences.