Bloomsbury Theatre

After being at the Leicester Square Theatre since what feels like the dawn of time, Freckle Productions’s moves to a new venue as it returns with its splendid puppet-driven family adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's popular book. The hapless Stick Man's domestic idyll – living up a tree with his Stick Lady Love and their trio of stick sprogs – is shattered when an enterprising dog mistakes him for a common or garden piece of wood. Ages three-plus.

Adding to London’s annual calvalcade of adaptations of A Christmas Carol, here’s deluded thespian Count Arthur Strong – aka character comedian Steve Delaney – with the final dates on an extensive UK tour that has seen him present his ill-advised one-man version of the Dickens classic across the length and breadth of the nation.