Preview: CBeebies House Party Live at Stockton Globe

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CBeebies House Party Live

Stockton Globe 

Sunday 9 August 2026

There is a particular kind of chaos that descends on a household when small children discover their favourite television characters are coming to town. CBeebies House Party Live is the show responsible for a great deal of that chaos across the UK this summer, and on Sunday 9th August it arrives at Stockton Globe for two performances.

The show is written and directed by Justin Fletcher MBE, the BAFTA award-winning performer best known to young audiences as Mr Tumble. Fletcher has been at the heart of CBeebies for years, and this touring production carries his fingerprints throughout, from its energetic pacing to its commitment to inclusive performance. Every show features a BSL interpreter, ensuring that deaf children and families can share fully in the experience. Makaton signs are also woven into the fabric of the performance through Mr Tumble himself, whose long-running series Something Special has introduced thousands of children to this communication system.

Mr Tumble is among the headline names joining the Stockton date, and his role in the party has a suitably domestic flavour: he is in charge of the food. Given his track record of cheerful catastrophe, things may not go entirely to plan, and that unpredictability is part of the appeal. Fletcher describes the show as "the party of ALL parties", and while that is his character talking, the production does appear to deliver on the promise.

The wider cast assembled for the tour reads like a who's who of the CBeebies schedule. Andy Day, Mister Maker (Phil Gallagher), George Webster, Evie Pickerill, Nigel Clarke, Rebecca Keatley, Rhys Stephenson, Joanna Adeyinka-Burford, Dodge (Warrick Brownlow-Pike) and Duggee are all part of the rotating lineup. The show has been produced by the same team behind CBeebies House and CBeebies Bedtime Stories, giving it a coherence and warmth that reflects those much-loved programmes.

What children can expect on the day is a live show built around participation: dancing, singing, streamers, giant jellies and plenty of bubbles. There is also a CBeebies Bedtime Story woven into the running order, though the show makes clear that sleep is very much off the agenda. The energy is deliberately high, the staging colourful, and the running time free of an interval, which tends to suit the attention spans of the target audience well.

The Manchester Evening News described the production as "Glastonbury for kids", while the Reviews Hub called it "bursting with colour, music, laughter and a whole lot of love", both giving it five stars. These responses come from a 2025 run of the show, and the 2026 tour is described as bigger and brighter than that outing.

Stockton Globe is an appropriate home for this kind of event. The venue opened in 1935 on the High Street and has hosted everyone from The Beatles to Sadler's Wells Ballet. Its art deco interior, restored following a multimillion-pound refurbishment funded by Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund, makes for a vivid setting. For many of the children in the audience on 9th August, it will be their first proper theatre trip, and the Globe gives that occasion the setting it deserves.

Tickets:

CBeebies House Party Live plays Stockton Globe, 153A High Street, Stockton-on-Tees TS18 1PL on Sunday 9th August 2026. Performances are at 11:00am and 2:00pm. The show runs without an interval. Tickets are available at www.atgtickets.com/shows/cbeebies-house-party/stockton-globe/ or www.stocktonglobe.co.uk. For group bookings of ten or more, call 020 7206 1174 or submit a request online via the ATG Tickets website.