Christmas theatre shows for kids

A new staging of David Walliams' kids novel 'Billionaire Boy' is coming to London for Christmas. It's the 'Richie Rich'-esque tale of a boy who's got pots of money but no friends. Then, he scoops up a rabble of 'normal' mates and gets involved in some surprising adventures. This production is masterminded by the team behind two other popular Walliams adaptations, 'Gangsta Granny' and 'Awful Auntie'. Ages five-plus.

Hip choreographer Arthur Pita’s latest dance piece, ‘The Little Match Girl’, is based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and involves a poor little match girl who is cast aside by her cruel neighbours on Christmas Eve. It is performed in Italian, incorporates ballet and opera and even a ghostly journey to the moon.

It may seem perverse to put the words 'snowman' and 'genius' into the same sentence, but the inspired range of delights in this dance adaptation of Raymond Briggs's book deserves no less an accolade... 

Little Angel’s show for two-to-six-year olds, ‘Me…’, is a charmfest that’s unlikely to upset even the most lily-livered pre-schooler. Featuring a cute bundle of day-old penguin fluff and an icy antarctic environment shaped like a half pipe, it is simple, short and sweet...

The Little Angel's Christmas show features a family who fall foul of a tricksy pixie. Based on a folk story, it's a musical that explores what happens when they move their farm to the city, and forget to leave pudding out for a magical visitor. 'The Pixie and the Pudding' is created by Barb Jungr and Samantha Lane, the team behind last year's Little Angel show 'The Singing Mermaid'. It's aimed at kids aged four-to-eleven.