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Date: 30 April - 12 May 2024

Age range: Recommended for ages 5+
Under 2s are not allowed.

Running time: Not stated

Location: Mayflower Theatre

Price: From £24.50

Touch Tours, Signed, Audio Described and Captioned shows available

This ravishing award-winning musical is bursting with unforgettable songs

Impact Boscombe Children's Festival

Date: Sat 11th May, 11am -3pm

Location: Churchill Gardens, Boscombe

Price: FREE

Impact Boscombe will be hosting a Children's Festival in Churchill Gardens, bringing together all of the fabulous people who work to support children and young people in Boscombe for a day of family fun with entertainment, activities and more!

Featuring a live performance of 'Cinderella’, a colourful and interactive family-friendly pantomime, with live music, singing and dancing along, excitement, laughter and surprises, and of course plenty of audience interaction. Brought to you by the fabulous Treehouse Theatre.

Date: Sat 11th May

Age range: 7+

Running time: 55 mins (no interval)

Location: Lighthouse Poole (Sherling Studio)

Price: From £10.49

A hilarious, participatory family show about poo… lots of it! Brought to life by singers, musicians and puppets, audiences will meet Queen Victoria, Prime Minister Disraeli, and even the Thames herself.

Date: Tue 28 May – Sat 1 Jun 2024

Age range: 7+

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: from £19.50

Captioned and Audio described shows available

Told from a child’s perspective, balancing heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class highlights the power of friendship and kindness in a world that doesn’t always make sense and reminds us that everyone needs a place to call home.

Date: 29 May - 1 June 2024

Age range: 3+

Running time: 60 mins

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios

Price: From £12.50
Under 2s allowed, please contact our box office on 02380 711811 to book your free under 2s ticket.

A bestselling story about confidence, self-esteem, and a shy little mouse who sets out on a journey to find his roar.

Date: 30th May - 2nd June

Location: The Point Eastleigh

Price: £14-£18

Immerse yourself in the timeless tale of love and transformation, with stunning costumes, captivating performances and unforgettable songs.

This production promises a night of wonder and delight, so don't miss your chance to watch this magical fairy tale experience!

Date: 1st June 2024

Age range: Activities for all ages

Running time: Various, you can get a ticket for 10am - 1pm, 1pm - 4pm

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios

Price: Pay what you can

Join us at MAST Mayflower Studios for our Family Fun Day! We are offering a variety of activities suitable for all ages including face painting, crafts, workshops and performances.

The Family Fun Day will also have an exclusive performance of a new show, My Paper Boat, an original musical story for ages 5 to 7 that explores the themes of migration, friendship, bravery and climate change. Get ready to have fun and learn that things are never quite as they seem. Tickets are included in your Family Fun Day booking but available on a first come first served basis.

Date: 1-2 June

Location: Wimborne

Price: From £5 for a day ticket - ages 4 and under free

We welcome a selection of offerings for the whole family across our 12 acres of working farmland including local businesses, produce and fresh food, live music, family activities, children's shows, funfair and loads more.

Date: 15th June

Age range: 6 years +

Running time: 2 hours

Location: The Point Eastleigh

Price: £13- £15
Family group offer: Book four tickets for £50

WiFi Wars returns with the live comedy game show where you all play along! Log in with your smartphone or tablet and compete in a range of games, puzzles and quizzes to win the show, and prizes!

Date: Sat 15 – Sun 16 Jun 2024

Age range: 0-4

Running time: 55mins

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From £18

Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka and friends are back in their fun-filled live show Igglepiggle’s Busy Day!

Date: 22nd June

Age Range: 2 years +

Running time: 45 minutes + photo opportunity with the cast!

Location: The Point, Eastleigh

Price: From £11

With a 1940’s vibe, a variety of dance styles and plenty of bowls of delicious porridge, this ballet is just right!

Join the company after each performance for a half-hour ballet workshop for children aged 4+ with the cast of Goldilocks. Workshops take place at 2.15pm and 4.45pm, simply add to the basket after booking your seats!
Tickets: £4 per child

Date: 18-21st July

Location: Tivoli Wimborne

Price: Early Bird prices until 25th March 2024

Online Ticket £19.25/£15.40 under 16’s

Made To Measure Productions, the company behind our RECORD BREAKING Christmas pantomime Cinderella, present BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!

Date: Sat 20 – Mon 22 Jul

Age range: 4+

Running time: 75 mins no interval

Location: Child Okeford Village Hall (20th) and then Fontmell Magma Springhead Gardens (22nd)

Price: £6 - £10

Visit Dorset in the Dark Ages with this immersive, family-friendly theatre!

In the style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, join us at The Pilgrims Inn as a merry company rests on their journey to St Edward's shrine in Shaftesbury, entertaining with tales of murder, miracles, music and mayhem.

Date: 23 - 25 July 2024

Age range: Recommended age 3+

Running time: 60 mins without an interval

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios

Price: £16.50
Under 2s allowed. Please contact our Box Office on 02380 711811 to book your free under 2s ticket.

With a bit of help from some friends and half a pound of cheese, can Pearl make her uncle better and prove princesses can be doctors too?

Date: 25-28th July 2024

Price: Day tickets: Adult from £80, child from £18
Camping / Weekend tickets from various.

Designed by families especially for families, Camp Bestival combines all the fun of a fantastic family camping holiday with everything you’d expect from an idyllic and action-packed festival adventure.

Date: Wed 31 Jul

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From £18

This exhilarating live concert, made especially for kids, brings the latest trending TikTok hits to life in vibrant and engaging live performance.

Date: 30 - 31st July

Age range: Recommended age 5+No under 2s allowed

Running time: 1 hour

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios (Southampton)

Price: £18.50 - family ticket available

This year, join London’s world-renowned Science Museum as they bring you this brand-new stage production aimed at igniting your curiosity, fuelling your imagination, and inspiring you in new and exciting ways.

Date: Thu 8th August

Age range: 4+

Running time: 60 mins, no interval

Location: Litton Cheney Village Hall Field

Price: Standard Ticket £7

Under 18s £5

Family ticket £20

Step inside the StoryDen, take a seat on the magic carpet and soar off on a wild adventure all the way to India - hold on to your hats! Join Storyteller Emily Hennessey and sitar player Sheema Mukherjee.

Seating on the floor, bring a cushion.

Date: 16 - 17 August 2024

Location: Mayflower Theatre

Price: £16.50

This new production will feature over 150 talented young people from across our area.

The joyous and uplifting comedy musical, Bugsy Malone is back at Mayflower Theatre as the Summer Youth Production for 2024.

Date: 21 - 24 August 2024

Age range: Recommended for ages 5+.
Under 2s are not allowed.

Running time: Approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes including an interval.

Location: Mayflower Theatre

Price: £14.50 - £44.50

Join all of your favourite crack-a-lackin’ friends as they escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien’s Madagascar.

Date: 27 - 30 August 2024

Age range: Recommended for all ages. Under 2s welcome.

Running time: Approximately 50 minutes. There is no interval in this show.

Location: Mayflower Theatre

Price: £16 - £25. For under 2s sharing a seat with an adult, please phone the Box Office on 02380 711811 for a free ticket

Join the Heelers in their first live theatre show made just for you, featuring brilliantly created puppets, this is Bluey as you’ve never seen it before, brought to real life in this UK premiere.

Date: 5 - 29 September

Age range: Recommended for ages 6+.
Under 2s are not allowed.

Running time: Approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes including an interval

Location: Mayflower Theatre

Price: £20 - £79.50

One lamp, three wishes and infinite possibilities… Disney’s spectacular Broadway and West End musical Aladdin comes to Southampton in September 2024.

Date: Thu 12 – Fri 13 Sep 2024

Age range: 1+

Running time: 55 mins

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: Adult from £17.60, Under 18 from £15.40

See our characters write to the Zoo. Who will be delivered? A cheeky monkey, a jumpy frog and of course a perfect puppy.

Help your children learn as the book leaps onto the stage and share a magical experience as the story unfolds with child-engaging puppets, music and lots of audience interaction.

Date: Friday 27th - Sunday 29th September

Location: Bournemouth (central gardens / pier)

Programme to be announced but the festival is usually:

• Free

• Full of pop-up performances and installations suitable for all ages

• Great for a wander with no need to buy a ticket for shows - young folk can freely move around shows / events depending on what takes their fancy.

Date: Sat 12 Oct 2024

Age range: 5+

Running time: 1 hr 5 mins (no interval)

Location: Lighthouse Poole (Sherling Studio)

Price: From: £10.50

All around the world Roald Dahl's words are disappearing, not only from books but from children's minds too.

Now only a secret organisation known as the Ancient Guild of Tale Tenders can save the stories – and they need your help. Especially made for ages 5 and up, the show develops both creative and literacy skills through performance, games and creative play whilst exploring Roald Dahl’s extraordinary stories.

Date: Fri 18 – Sat 19 Oct 2024

Age range: 8+

Running time: TBC

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From £19.50

Le Navet Bete, one of the UK's leading touring physical comedy theatre companies, is touring King Arthur, a brand new laugh-out-loud show, hailed “a slapstick romp crammed with knockabout fun and innuendo” by Weekend Notes.

Camelot is in trouble. King Arthur knows that if he doesn’t turn things around, this civilisation will be forgotten, and be known as nothing more than a rather dull time in British history. But when three hapless squires approach him about changing that legacy… a legend is born.

Date: Tue 22 – Wed 23 Oct 2024

Age range: Under 7’s

Running time: TBC

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From £20
Babes-in-Arms Tickets: Children under 12 months will have to sit on an adult’s knee with a babes-in-Arms ticket. This can be added after selecting your seats through purchase. Any children aged over 12 months must have their own seat and an U-18 ticket will need to be purchased.

Join Peppa, along with her family and friends as they go to the zoo and also the beach for a special party- it’s going to be an exciting and fun packed day.

Date: 22 – 26 October 2024

Age range: Under 2s are not permitted

Running time: TBC

Location: Mayflower Theatre

Price: From £24
Family Ticket; Up to two children under 16 half price with every full paying adult. Only available on Bands A-D

Direct from London comes the smash hit family musical 101 Dalmatians.

When fashionista Cruella de Vil plots to swipe all the Dalmatian puppies in town to create her fabulous new fur coat, there’s trouble ahead for Pongo and Perdi and their litter of adorable, tail-wagging young pups.

Date: Tue 29 Oct 2024

Age range: 3+

Running time: 55 mins (no interval)

Location: Lighthouse Poole (Sherling Studio)

Price: From: £10.49

A new Family Show and Augmented Reality Experience. Moving house to a new city where it always rains, Kit is alone. Making friends is always hard, but here, it feels impossible. The rain beats down on the roof and drips down the window panes, trapping Kit in the quiet stillness of their dingy bedroom. But, one night, when idly scribbling to pass the time, the swirls and whirls on the page giggle into a life of their own, and a very unusual adventure unfolds!

A story about the magic of creativity, how we reach out to each other in the darkness and together, bring the impossible to life.

Date: Wed 30 Oct 2024

Age range: 6+

Running time: 1h 30m (incl interval)

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From: £17.50

The cheekiest, funniest, most revolting science show in the world.

Brace yourselves for BBC Gastronaut Stefan Gates’ hilarious, highly-explosive new family show, packed with science stunts and spectacular experiments. Expect enormous bottoms, f*rt machines, snot cocktails and pee-powered fireworks transforming revolting biology, physics and chemistry into educational hilarity.

Date: 3 – 7 December 2024

Age range: Recommended for ages 4+
Under 2s are not permitted

Running time: Approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes including an interval.

Location: Mayflower Theatre

Price: From £29.50

Elf, the hit Hollywood blockbuster movie has been supersized into a live spectacular stage show for Christmas 2024. The story is enhanced with amazing film backdrops on a huge LED screen. It also has Santa’s flying sleigh, an audience snowball fight, indoor snowstorm, a giant candy cane journey from the North Pole, and aerial cirque stars.

Date: 4 – 14 December 2024

Age range: All ages, under 2 allowed contact box office for free ticket

Running time: 60 minutes

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios

Price: From £16.50

The critically acclaimed production of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show created by Jonathan Rockefeller features a menagerie of 75 lovable puppets. The production faithfully adapts four stories by author/illustrator Eric Carle: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, 10 Little Rubber Ducks, The Very Busy Spider and of course, the star of the show –The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Date: Sat 7 – Tue 24 Dec 2024

Age range: 3+

Running time: 1 hr no interval

Location: Lighthouse Poole (Sherling Studio)

Price: From £12.50

The real story… of a girl who is brave, strong, clever, and determined to prove herself. With a top team of actor musicians, songs, dancing, and inventive design, all thrown in with a bit of sparkle and magic for good measure!

Dates: Sat 7 Dec 2024 – Sun 5 Jan 2025

Age range:

Running time: Approx. 2.5 hours including interval

Location: Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre

Price: From £18

With incredible 3D special effects, Jack and the Beanstalk opens on Saturday 7 December. Behold, this fee-fi-fo-fabulous reimagined romp through a classic tale you thought you knew!

Relaxed Performance: Tuesday 17 December at 10:30am

Date: Thu 12 Dec 2024 – Sun 5 Jan 2025

Age range: 7+

Running time: approx. 2h 15m (inc interval)

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From £15

Our princess is ready to take on a brilliant new adventure beyond her castle walls, but the evil Carabosse has other ideas. Can true love save the day? One kiss is all it takes.

Expect tons of laughter and spectacular special effects as CBeebies and Lighthouse favourite, Chris Jarvis, puts the magic into this classic fairytale.

Date: 14 December 2024 – 5 January 2025

Age range: All ages are welcome, including under 2s. For under 2s sharing a seat with an adult, please phone the box office on 02380 711811 or visit the box office within the theatre in the hour preceding the show to obtain their free ticket

Running time: Approximately 2 hours including an interval.

Location: Mayflower Theatre

Price: From £19.50

After their first triumphant Mayflower Theatre pantomime last year in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, street dance sensations, Ashley Banjo & Diversity, and award-winning actor and comedian, Kev Orkian, are coming back to climb a beanstalk of gigantic proportions to cloudland in the spectacular family pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. Joining them this year will be West End actress, Anne Smith (Annie, Chess, Mamma Mia.

BSL, Captioned, Relaxed and Audio Description shows available - check site for dates

Date: 22 – 31 December 2024

Age range: All ages welcome including under 2s. For under 2s sharing a seat with an adult, please phone the box office on 02380 711811 or visit the box office within the theatre in the hour preceding the show to obtain their free ticket

Running time: 2 hours with an interval

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios

Price: From £12.50

Join Rat, Badger and Mole on Toad’s BIG Musical Adventure as the classic tale of The Wind in the Willows is brought to life packed with musical hits, comedy and thrills for all the family.

50 young people will take you on a wonderful journey through the seasons along the banks of the Test, down the open road (watch out for Toad in his motorcar!) around the snow- covered New Forest, and through the Wild Wood (beware of those weasels!) to the magnificent Toad Hall.

BSL & Audio Description: Sat 28th Show