Thanks to streaming, two American critics got to binge a bunch of the traditional holiday spectacles. They’re amused, and confused, by what they saw. By Alexis Soloski and Elisabeth Vincentelli In a ...

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Some forms of live theater can be intimidating, with audience members encouraged to avoid coughing, talking or accidentally leaving their cell phone ringers on. Pantomimes are the exact opposite. At a ...

Marcel Marceau, who spent more than half the 20th century re-popularizing the ancient art of pantomime for a modern age, was born 100 years ago this month. Marcel Marceau spent more than half the 20th ...

"I thought, no, no, it's beneath me," says Christopher Biggins, remembering when he was first approached to do panto decades ago. "I don't do pantomime, I'm an actor." "Eventually they mentioned money ...

Those in the United Kingdom have plentiful opportunities this holiday season to see a traditional show known as a Christmas panto. A quick Google search reveals that London alone has a vast array of ...

This essay challenges past scholarship's emphasis on a two-part structure for early English pantomime by using quantitative data to stress the diversity of pantomime's form. One curious example, the ...

Purposeful over-the-top acting, caricatures of stock characters, and physical gags: Pantomime touches on something both universal and comedic about the human experience. This nonverbal performance ...