Cinema/theatre/TV

Following the huge success of the BBC One TV show Little Howard’s Big Question, Big Howard and the animated six year old Little Howard are packing their bags and heading off on a tour of the UK with their hit live show Little Howard and the Magic Pencil of Life and Death.

Calibre Productions presents, by arrangment with Aardman Ltd, Shaun's Big Show – a stage debut for family favourite Shaun the Sheep.

Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure runs at The Lowry until Sat 1 January 2011.

Angelina Ballerina, the dancing mouse and children’s favourite will be taking to the big screen at Vue Cinemas across the country on the 13 and 14 November and with tickets at just £2.50 each, its good value fun for all the family. Plus three Parenting Without Tears readers will win an Angelina Ballerina goody bag to the value of £35.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's Matilda, A Musical opens on 9 November and is offering £10 kids' tickets for specially selected performances.

A film guaranteed to make you smile – and laugh, Made in Dagenham tells the story of how in 1968 187 women machinists at the Ford factory in Dagenham had a major influence on the fight for equal pay for women.

Sequels can be disappointing but Brian O'Neill rates Toy Story 3 – viewed in Sony 4K at the Regent Street Apollo – as the best so far!

The second series of the Horrible Histories begins 31 May on CBBC. Elaine Denne and Jack went to the preview for Parenting Without Tears and both mother and son loved the show.

Witness this week's attempt to create a detailed and dynamic, never to be heard again, improvised translation of Chekhov’s masterpiece.

Anne Coates is not a great fan of musical theatre but she was really impressed when she went along to a preview of Legally Blonde The Musical at London's Savoy Theatre.

Days before Christmas on a little known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec two single mothers form an unlikely allegiance in Frozen River from Axiom Films.

Brian O'Neill took his son Mattie to see Ice Age 3 - just released by 20th Century Fox - and both were suitably impressed.