A new festive experience will be launched at Beaulieu this year. In A Palace House Christmas, the story of pantomime will be ...

Principal Boy follows the audition, rehearsal, and performance of the central character in British pantomime, known as the ‘principal boy’. Traditionally a young male protagonist, the ...

The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands.When William Blake wrote these lines he had been touched by the spectacle of ...

Panto is as much a part of Christmas in Britain as turkey, tinsel and mince pies. ... Characters include a plucky hero, or “principal boy,” often played by a woman, ...

A producer says panto is not just for Christmas - a "16-month process" leads to the fun on stage. ... The seasonal shows feature a man dressed as a woman, a principal boy and girl, ...

Stage historian Sladen said that some are leaning into the drag element of panto, with “a bigger, wider explosion of roles than just the dame and the principal boy being cross-dressed.” ...