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Scotland’s best pantomime is to be honoured for the first time. Theatre critics have agreed to recognise festive shows after nearly 20 years of their annual awards with a new “outstanding ...

Elaine C Smith has been honoured with the Outstanding Achievement award at The Pantomime Awards 2025. The Scottish actress and comedian picked up the illustrious award for her "exceptional ...

This year some 140 pantomimes are playing in Great Britain. They are at their broadest and, in an old-fashioned way, at their best, in the provinces. In London the best of the revue artists take ...

Reviews Locations Virginia Six enchanting ‘Little Comedies’ in pantomime from Synetic Theater Sometimes comic, sometimes touching, these choreographed vignettes are entertainment for the whole family.

British pantomime By the 18th century, pantomime evolved into a distinctly British art form. Influenced by Italian commedia and French mime traditions, English pantos blended these with local folk ...

Why do people love the panto so much? For Donal Shiels, the chief executive and artistic director of the Civic Theatre in Tallaght, it’s the immediacy of the pantomime that makes it so enduring.

Audiences are encouraged to participate in pantomimes, a style of performance a couple imported to Oregon from England.