Looking for something to keep you busy during the summer holidays?
Join us for a fun week of drama, games and acting where you will create your own ‘Play in a Week’ to perform to family and friends. Sessions run from 10am – 3.30pm daily.
Genre: Family
Stick Man
Touching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions’ delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Stick Man is back in town!
What starts off as a morning jog becomes quite the misadventure for Stick Man: a dog wants to play fetch with him, a swan builds a nest with him, and he even ends up on a fire! How will Stick Man ever get back to the family tree?
This award-winning production, from the team behind Zog and Zog and the Flying Doctors, features a trio of top actors and is packed full of puppetry, songs, live music and funky moves.
★★★★★ “Wonderfully exuberant and imaginative! Our 3-year-old was engrossed from start to finish” Time Out Critics’ Choice
★★★★ “Zesty and delightful. A clever compelling treat” – Independent
★★★★ “More fun than you can shake a stick at” – Daily Mail
★★★★ “Julia Donaldson’s miniature epic. Sally Cookson and her team recreate the book with vigour and imagination” – Times
★★★★★ – Sunday Express
★★★★★ – WhatsOnStage
The Wonders of Our Universe
Immerse yourself in an evening of cosmic exploration, meticulously crafted to deliver a visually stunning and emotionally charged journey through the universe. This show weaves together distinctive storytelling, live demonstrations, breath-taking visuals and live music, allowing imaginations to soar and inspiring minds of all ages. Presented by Astrophysicist Ian Hall FRAS and Exoplanet Research Scientist Charlotte Alexandra FRAS.
Recommended Age Guidance: 11 years plus, although children younger than this will enjoy the show if they are particularly engaged with the topic.
Create and Play – Spring Chickens
Leave the kids with us for two jam-packed hours of creative fun involving drama games, storytelling and craft activities.
Each session is themed around a popular children’s story, and includes a ‘make to take home’.
Create and Play – Dino Discoveries
Leave the kids with us for two jam-packed hours of creative fun involving drama games, storytelling and craft activities.
Each session is themed around a popular children’s story, and includes a ‘make to take home’.
Jack and the Beanstalk
★★★★★ “The definition of perfect festive theatre for the whole family” – Sounds and Stage
★★★★ “Bursting with energy, dazzling costumes, and more jokes than you can shake a magic bean at” – Fairy Powered Productions
Join Jack and his mum in their family-run Dairy Farm, where business is down, there’s taxes to be paid, and there’s nothing left to do but sell Pat the Cow at Romford Market. Oh, and to top it off, there’s a giant in the sky above Hornchurch, terrorising the town!
But when some magic beans take root, an adventure starts to grow…
Will Jack find the courage to climb to Cloudland, outwit the ferocious giant and save the town before it’s too late?
Expect laughter, toe-tapping tunes, and a happy-ever-after in this GIGANTIC festive family pantomime. It’s the unmissable magical adventure you’ve all BEAN waiting for.
Oh yes it is!
Jack and the Beanstalk is a 2025 Offies Assessors’ Choice! Assessors’ Choice is a brand new OffWestEnd badge of excellence, spotlighting independent and alternative theatre productions.
What to expect from our Panto
Panto is a fun, family-friendly theatre tradition in the UK, usually performed at Christmas. Based on fairy tales, it’s packed with comedy, music, and audience participation.
Key Features:
- The Dame – A comedic, larger-than-life character played by a man in exaggerated female costume and makeup, bringing slapstick and cheeky humour.
- Audience participation – Classic shout-outs like “It’s behind you!” and “Oh no it isn’t!” keep the crowd involved.
- Slapstick & Wordplay – Silly physical comedy, messy scenes, and jokes for both kids and innuendo for adults.
- Modern References – Pop culture jokes and improvisation make each show unique.
- Larger-Than-Life Characters – Expect a hero, a villain to boo, and a comedy sidekick.
- Live on stage music – We pride ourselves on our highly professional actor-musician casting for all roles, meaning all cast members play an instrument on stage (as well as act, sing, and dance)
- New writing – Each panto is brand new for us, it’s the classic fairy tale with a local spin.
Timetable
We’re proud to offer a range of accessible performances, welcoming everyone to come and enjoy the magic of panto.
Baby Broadway
Get ready for an interactive experience where the entire family can sing and dance along to tunes from classic musicals and films, performed by West End singers.
Little ones will delight in the bubbles, charming puppets, lively actions and dance moves to copy, whilst grown-ups indulge in a delightful singalong.
“So much fun! A lovely activity for you and your littlies” – Sevenoaks Mums
“Absolutely brilliant. Actually entertaining for adults and simply magical for the kids” – daddyshortlegs
Create and Play – Monkeying Around
Leave the kids with us for two jam-packed hours of creative fun involving drama games, storytelling and craft activities.
Each session is themed around a popular children’s story, and includes a ‘make to take home’.
Create and Play – Space Adventures
Leave the kids with us for two jam-packed hours of creative fun involving drama games, storytelling and craft activities.
Each session is themed around a popular children’s story, and includes a ‘make to take home’.
The Littlest Yak
This musical adaptation of the award-winning children’s book will delight audiences young and old with beautiful puppets, catchy tunes and an uplifting tale of self-acceptance for all the family.
Gertie is great at being THE LITTLEST YAK, with the CURLIEST, WHIRLIEST wool and the GRIPPIEST of hooves for clip-clopping up cliffs. Only, Gertie doesn’t want to be the littlest. She’s in a rush to grow up and be just like THE BIG YAKS. But what if there are some things that only a GERTIE can do?
A gorgeous story celebrating YOU being perfect…just the way you are!
LAStheatre brings The Littlest Yak to the stage in spectacular fashion. Join them for a dazzling adventure, into the heart of the Himalayas.
Nominated for a YAKTASTIC 4 OffWestEnd Awards!
“A great introduction to theatre” – Kat Masterson
“My daughter keeps asking to “go back to yaks” over and over again” – Posie’s Book Club
“A must-see family event” – Blog Preston
