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Date: Tue 8 – Thu 10 Apr 2025

Running time: 55mins (no interval)

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From: £16.50

A high-energy 50-minute adventure featuring lively original music, this show is the perfect introduction to live theatre.

Expect plenty of playful fun for your littlest ones as their favourite characters come to life in a show that is packed with interactive moments to enjoy together.

Date: Thu 10 Apr 2025

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Location: Pavilion Theatre Bournemouth

Price: Child 1-2 From: £8.25
Child under 16 £19.50
Standard £20.75

Join your favourite Milkshake! friends on Holiday with Dora, Pip and Posey, Blue from Blues Clues and You!, Milo, Milkshake! Monkey plus two of your Milkshake! presenters for an all-new adventure!

Date: Tue 15 Apr 2025

Age range: No age restrictions

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Location: Pavilon Theatre Bournemouth

Price: From: £22.75

Join the ‘Odd Socks’ as they bring their brilliant madcap mix of songs, slapstick comedy and silliness to life with a show to entertain families of all ages

Date: Tue 15 Apr 2025

Age range: 5+

Running time: 50 mins (no interval)

Location: Lighthouse Poole (Sherling Studio)

Price: From: £10.60

Featuring storytelling, traditional music, original songs and spellbinding puppetry, this is the perfect show for anyone captivated by myths, magic, music and folklore.

Date: Sat 12 Apr 2025

Age range: ages 4 - 11 years

Running time: 1 Hour

Location: The Point

Price: £12 - £14

An uplifting children’s show about true friendship and trusting your instincts. With music by Harriette Ashcroft (Mrs H and the Singalong Band), magical puppetry and a heartwarming story, Puffling Percy is bound to lift you up, up and away!

Date: Tues 15 Apr 2025

Age range: For ages 3 - 7 years

Running time: 55 mins

Location: The Point

Price: £12- £14

The Farmer and The Clown is a very accessible, wordless piece of family theatre. A story of unexpected friendship told through physical comedy and dance.

Date: Wed Apr 16 2025

Age range:3+

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Location: Tivoli, Wimborne

Price: Online ticket £17.60 adult / £16.50 under 16’s (includes £1.60/£1.50 online booking fee)

Box Office ticket £16 adult / £15 under 16’s 

Help Nick find his beloved bobble hat in this fun filled musical hour with all your favourite Nick Cope hits and more.

Date: 16-19th April

Age range: All ages

Running time: 60 minutes

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios

Price: £16

With songs by Joe Stilgoe (Zog  and  Zog and The Flying Doctors), The Baddies is a wickedly hilarious adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s smash-hit story, and laugh-out-loud fun for all the family.

Date: 19th April

Age range: 5-12

Location: Bridport Ars Centre

Price: Adult £14, Child £9

With live music and puppetry, Stories in the Dust is a funny, heartfelt and hopeful eco-fable that takes you to another world where an ancient book guides the way, a drop of rain changes everything and a mighty lion holds its secrets in an old clay pot.

Date: Sat 19 Apr 2025

Age range: 4+

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From: £18.50

Packed with dazzling sets, colourful characters, astounding choreography, original music, and heaps of audience participation, this brand-new adaptation sees the adventurous Little Mermaid embark on an unforgettable adventure as the wonders of the sea burst onto the stage in a magical experience that will have audiences of all ages enchanted and enthralled from start to FIN-ish.

Date: Sat 26 Apr 2025,

Age range: For 5 - 12 years

Running time: 50 mins

Location: The Point

Price: £10 - £15

With live music and puppetry, Stories in the Dust is a funny, heartfelt and hopeful eco-fable that takes you to another world. A world where an ancient book guides your way, a drop of rain changes everything and a mighty lion holds its secrets in an old clay pot.

Date: 3rd May

Running time: This production includes an interval

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios

Price: From £21

A Magical show where beautiful Princesses become Pop Stars. They just love to sing! It’s the perfect mix!

This is the children’s pop concert with a big difference. The four fabulous Fairy tale Princesses are back, and this time they are on their first World Tour! Come and join them on this epic around-the-globe show.

Date: Wed 7 – Sat 10 May 2025

Age range: 9+

Running time: 1h 50m (incl interval)

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From: £19.50

Is it better to have a pig's heart that works … than a human heart that doesn't?

Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is to be normal – have friends, go to school, and dive to the bottom of his local swimming pool. But he desperately needs a heart transplant and time is running out. When he’s finally offered a new heart, Cameron must choose how far he’ll go to get his life back.

Date: Sat 10 May 2025

Location: Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre

Price: From: £23.25
Under 12 months FREE. All other children need a ticket.

Experience the magic of this interactive and engaging live show experience set to spark creativity, curiosity and a love of learning through The Wiggles signature mix of entertainment and education.

Date: Sat 24 May 2025

Age range: All ages

Running time: 60mins (no interval)

Location: Lighthouse Poole (Sherling Studio)

Price: From: £12

Join world record-breaking beatboxer SK Shlomo (they/them) who makes amazing music with just a mouth and a mic, and has performed around the world with legends like Bjork, Ed Sheeran and Rudimental.

Anybody can become one of this sonic superhero’s sidekicks in a world of funny sounds, brilliant noises, and cool music, whether they’re aged 1 or 101.

Date: 27 – 28 May 2025

Age range: Recommended to ages 3+ - Under 2s allowed

Running time: 55 minutes

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios

Price: £14

A delightful dragontastic show for pop princesses and naughty knights.

Full House Theatre is bringing this bestselling picture book to life on stage. The whole family will enjoy laugh-out-loud comedy, cool puppets, sing along pop anthems and a dazzling larger-than-life dragon.

Date: Thu 12 Jun 2025

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price:From: £18.15

Dodge hungry crocs beneath Long-John Bridge, bob upon the waves of Big Knickers Bay, spot sharks in fancy underpants and trek across Three Pants Ridge.

Filled with music, puppetry and glittering pants of gold, arrr you ready to set sail for a family adventure?

Date: 25 – 26 July 2025

Age range:  All ages

Under 2s allowed, please contact our box office on 02380 711 811 to book your free under 2s ticket.

Running time: 1 hour 10 mins including a 20 minute interval

Location: MAST Mayflower Studios

Price: £18

Join Bing and his friends Sula, Pando, Coco, Amma, and, of course, Flop as they prepare for Bing’s very special day. Full of new heartwarming moments and catchy new songs, all brought to life by first-class puppeteers, this 1 hour 10 mins show is perfect for families and little Bingsters who want to experience the delightful CBeebies series in a whole new way—live on stage!

Date: 29 – 30 July 2025

Age range: Recommended age 3+ but all ages welcome including under 2s

Running time:  Approx. 50 mins and 15 mins post show meet and greet

Location: Mayflower Theatre

Price: From £16

Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in this roarsome interactive show for all the family! A special meet and greet after the show offers all our brave explorers the chance to make a new dinosaur friend.

Date: Fri 8 Aug 2025

Location: Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre

Price: From £16

With a captivating story, interactive activities throughout and an immersive finale that will bring the house down, Dino Tales is an unforgettable fun-filled family adventure starring Europe’s largest walking dinosaurs to ever roam the stage.

Date: Fri 29 – Sun 31 Aug 2025

Age range: 3+

Running time: 50m (plus 15m meet & greet)

Location: Lighthouse Poole

Price: From: £16.75

Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in this roarsome interactive show for all the family!