LONDON — Foreboding music begins. A scary green witch announces her arrival with a cackle. It's the opening of Wicked Witches, a British holiday-time play known as a "pantomime," at a North London ...

Alicia Belgarde is playing Aurora in the stage adaptation of Sleeping Beauty by Central Theatre this festive period One song is all it takes to put the fear in actors this winter. "I've got so many ...

A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and run later in the year The Christmas decorations have been packed away, kids are back at school and new year ...

On Sunday 13 April, the winners of The Pantomime Awards 2025 were announced by the UK Pantomime Association at a ceremony full of song and laughter at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. Elaine C Smith ...

It's official. The pumpkins have been carved and the fireworks have fizzled, which means Christmas is truly on the horizon. And for theatre folk, Christmas means one thing and one thing only… PANTO!

It was a gag about a packet of crisps in a Southend pantomime that inspired seven-year-old Damian Williams to get into showbusiness. Now, after 252 wigs, 200 pairs of sparkly Doc Marten boots and ...

Award-winning pantomime producer Imagine Theatre has announced casting across the UK in their upcoming pantomime season of nineteen pantomimes across England Scotland and Wales. They are supported by ...

Unusually this year, I saw the first night of the Edinburgh and the Glasgow panto in the same week, and seeing them in such close succession really rams home how each seems to exemplify the spirit of ...

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A new exhibition is lifting the curtain on Glasgow's pantomime history. Open weekdays at Glasgow City Chambers until December 24, the free Get You in Panto Town exhibition is offering visitors a ...

Foreboding music begins. A scary green witch announces her arrival with a cackle. It’s the opening of Wicked Witches, a British holiday-time play known as a “pantomime,” at a North London theater. But ...