Cinema/theatre/TV

Justin Audibert has created a new version Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale for young audiences which is showing at the Dorfman Theatre this February.

Saddler's Wells presents the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Production of The Snowman™ in London's The Peacock which Harriet and Anne Coates went to see.

The news is out about this year's Strictly contestants and young fans – and their mums – all over the UK will be jumping for joy to see that Dr Ranj is amongst them. Harriet is delighted.

Once again for the month of August children have free entry to shows at participating theatres and booking opens at 10am today. This is organised by the Society of London Theatres and to find out what's on offer we went to see Strictly Ballroom.

An American in Paris is being screened in cinemas throughout the UK on Wednesday 16 May. 

A specially adapted production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is running at the National Theatre until 28 February. Anne Coates reviews.

SHREK THE MUSICAL® has arrived, stomping into 2018 with a critically acclaimed new UK and Ireland 24-venue tour until January 2019, arriving at Birmingham’s New Alexandra Theatre this week.

ENB Nutcracker Dates & Booking

Paddington 2, the much-anticipated sequel to the worldwide hit family film Paddington, opens in cinemas today. Olivia Coates loved it.

With one week to go until its nationwide cinema release, STUDIOCANAL and Heyday Films are pleased to launch a brand new clip for PADDINGTON 2, featuring The Brown Family, Paddington, and a selection of his new pals! 

Book Story by MONSTRO Theatre will be touring the UK this autumn.

Find out when The Hunting of the Snark  is at a theatre near you.

The West End production of a brand-new family musical –The Hunting of the Snark! – inspired by the creator of Alice in Wonderland’s beloved classic poem, is at at the Vaudeville Theatre in London until 2 September, 2017. Harriet and Olivia Coates went along and had a fabulous time.

The perennial children's classic tale of riverside animals, Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham, has been transposed to the West End stage at London's iconic London Palladium theatre, by Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Harriet and Anne Coates went along to experience the magic.

The Girls is inspired by the true story of a group of women, who decide to appear nude for a Women’s Institute calendar in order to raise funds to buy a settee for their local hospital, in memory of one of their husbands, and have to date raised almost £5 million for Bloodwise. Olivia and Anne Coates went to see the show at The Phoenix Theatre in London.

Australia’s most successful family entertainment group, The Wiggles, are coming to the UK and Ireland and we have a family ticket to be won.

English National Ballet and English National Ballet School present My First Ballet: Cinderella, a reimagined version of the classic fairy-tale created especially for children as young as three. Adapted to an hour in length and with a narrator to help young audiences follow the story, My First Ballet: Cinderella is the perfect introduction to the magic of ballet, writes Olivia Coates.

A Rose Theatre Kingston and Curve Leicester co-production of Roald Dahl's The Twits is fantastic, according to Olivia and Harriet Coates.