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 ...

Jeremy Corbyn will appear in a north London pantomime in his constituency this Christmas, playing the “Wizard of Oz-lington” in a Wicked-inspired performance. Wicked Witches: A Popular Panto, which ...

Foreboding music begins. A scary green witch announces her arrival with a cackle. It’s the opening of Wicked Witches, a British holiday-time play known as a “pantomime,” at a North London theater. But ...

Continuing his impressive run of oddball overseas appearances, former rapper Vanilla Ice has revealed that he will remain in the United Kingdom to play Captain Hook in a holiday season, pantomime ...

Catherine Tate, beloved British comedy queen and possibly the more beloved Donna Noble on Doctor Who, The Office, and her scorching eponymous television show, will top the bill at this year's London ...

Do only words maketh William Shakespeare? Certainly not, say the makers of The Tempest, who are set to showcase the playwright’s genius in a Broadway-style pantomime It's a story of good vs evil. Two ...

A pantomime full of fun, feathers and fowl play is set to take the stage in County Durham. Mother Goose, performed by Dryburn Theatrical Workshop, will performed at the Park View Theatre in Chester-le ...

Pantomime is a British family theatre tradition for the winter months, in which classic fairy tales are rewritten as satirical, camp, broad comedies, with songs, innuendo, audience interaction, puns, ...