Pantomime has deep roots, stretching back to the stock characters and bawdy humor of the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte and the French harlequinade, as well as the English music hall.

Nowhere is that truer than in Edinburgh’s big pantomime in which longstanding dame Allan Stewart follows in the high-heeled footsteps of such greats as Stanley Baxter. The actor has – since ...

Pantomime is often seen as something quaint ... chases and acrobatics From the late 1600s these characters appeared in English comic plays, introduced by the theatre impresario John Rich.

Enter, stage right, the pantomime villain, soon to land on English, French, Irish and Italian soil to shake the foundations ...

It is the highest attended pantomime, for the length of run ... and Mayflower Studios – over 100,000 people came to see English National Ballet’s Nutcracker, Elf the Musical, A Very Hungry ...

And it continues today in one type of show – the Christmas pantomime. “Panto is a great way for young people to be introduced to the stage in a fun way. The interaction element brings a ...