The great Victorian playwright George Bernard Shaw was not an admirer of pantomimes. He wrote in 1897 that this dramatic genre is “a glittering, noisy void”, which worries “the physical senses without ...

LONDON – Here’s a recipe as essential to Christmas in Britain as turkey, tinsel and mince pies. Mix a fairy-tale plot with topical references, slapstick, song, dance and double entendres. Drench in ...

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!

City Theatre at Sacramento City College will produce The Nutcracker, A Panto by Christine Nicholson and Luther Hanson and directed by Luther Hanson. The production opens on Friday, November 21, and ...

Courtney Act, aka Shane Jenek, says she will bring some "Aussie brashness" to her role An Australian drag queen may not be the obvious choice to be one of the stars of a Christmas panto in Bradford.

Dreamworld Entertainments will present DICK WHITTINGTON at the Gladstone Theatre in Port Sunlight, with Darren John Langford ...

When you think about the prince in "Sleeping Beauty," it's unlikely that a certain purple Minnesotan comes to mind. And yet, when the curtains open on the second edition of Panto in the Presidio next ...

The festive show will take place at the Galleon again this Christmas.

Panto season is upon us, and for the performers, anything could happen. Actors recall their most excruciating moments – from a panic attack while dressed as a cow, to dripping blood while in flight as ...