It’s nearly that moment you’ve all been waiting for – Kids Week is back again and the tickets are going on sale at 10am on 9 June.
During Kids Week, a child goes free to the when accompanied by a full paying adult. Despite the name, it actually lasts the whole summer holidays because it’s so popular we had to expand it.
With it being so popular, there’s lots of demand for tickets so here are our top tips to make booking tickets as easy as possible:
1. Join the queue early
Due to high demand, we will put a queueing system in place to make booking tickets as fair as we can. Visit KidsWeek.co.uk from 8am on Tuesday 9 June to join the virtual waiting room. At 10am, everyone in the waiting room will be assigned a random place in the queue and everyone arriving to the website after will be given a place behind them. Once you get to the front, for our most popular shows, you may have to join an additional queue.
While in the queue, you will be told how long roughly you will have to wait. This is only an estimate, so it’s worth checking back regularly and turning the sound on your device, as it will make a ding when you reach the front of the queue.
2. Have some back-up choices
Even though it’s not on sale yet, you can already see what shows are taking part and the performance dates that are available – not all shows have Kids Week tickets to every performance.
Your first choices may sell out quickly, so plan multiple dates that you can attend and back-up shows in case your first choices sell out quickly.
3. Activities
During Kids Week, select shows will run free activities so you can get even more from your theatre trip and your child can understand more about what goes into making the magic happen on stage. To book a show with an activity alongside it, please visit the activities page.
All activities and their related show performances must be booked through this page rather than the main Kids Week shows page. Spaces on these workshops are limited so a maximum of four children can attend per booking.
Activities typically will either be a curtain call or a workshop. A curtain call will happen directly after a specific performance and usually involves a Q&A with cast and/or crew members.
Workshops can be based around singing, dancing, acting, puppetry and storytelling, related to the show that you’ve booked to see. They will be categorised in age groups so that your child will be in a similar age group to themselves.
4. Have your payment method to hand
You can pay with Mastercard, Visa, Maestro, PayPal or Theatre Tokens. Theatre Tokens can be used to pay for all or part of your total.
5. Age guidance
Kids Week is for all age ranges of children, which means we have shows for toddlers right up to older teenagers and so not everything is suitable for all ages.
Before you book a show, please check the important info section of each show’s page. There you will find a suggested age suitability for the show. For some shows, there may also be a content warning box. Unlike film, age ranges are not as strictly enforced at the theatre and we trust you to know what themes and content are suitable for your child.
