Children’s theatre company Big Wooden Horse blasts off with Adam Bampton-Smith’s adaptation of Claire Freedman’s Aliens Love Underpants which continues at The Core at Corby Cube, Northamptonshire until Thursday.
A new musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol continues at The Castle, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire until Tuesday 29 December.
Derby LIVE and Buxton-based Babbling Vagabonds team up for The Potty Professor’s Christmas Miracle which continues at the Guildhall Theatre, Derby until Tuesday 29 December.
Kelsey Beth Crossley plays Princess Jasmine and James Holmes is Widow Twankey in Aladdin which continues at Buxton Opera House until Saturday 2 January.
Peter Pan flies into the Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday 2 January.
Derby LIVE’s production of Aladdin continues at Derby Arena until Sunday 3 January.
John Partridge heads the cast of Cinderella which continues at Northampton’s Derngate until Sunday 3 January while a new version of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen continues on the Royal stage also until 3 January.
Potteries-born entertainer Jonathan Wilkes is celebrating his tenth year in panto at Stoke’s Regent Theatre, playing Smee in Peter Pan which continues until Sunday 3 January.
Graham Cole, who played PC Tony Stamp for 25 years in the TV series The Bill, plays Hemlock in Lichfield Garrick’s panto Jack and the Beanstalk which continues until Sunday 3 January.
Philip Martin Brown, best known for playing irritable teacher Grantly Budgen in the BBC TV series Waterloo Road, continues as Abanazar in Mansfield Palace Theatre’s production of Aladdin until Sunday 3 January.
Scott Ritchie and Birmingham Ormiston Academy continue to stage Treasure Island at the Old Rep, Birmingham until Sunday 3 January.
Tall Stories Theatre Company brings Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s award-winning The Gruffalo’s Child to life at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry which continues until Sunday 3 January.
Blending “lavish costume drama, swashbuckling sword play, acrobatic fights, romance, betrayal, honour and comradeship”, The Three Musketeers is Playbox Theatre’s Christmas offering which runs at the Dream Factory, Warwick until Sunday 3 January.
Derby-born Esmé Sears plays the title role in Derby Theatre’s Christmas production Cinderella which continues until Saturday 9 January while in the Studio The Elves and the Shoemakers continues until Saturday 26 December.
Coventry panto legend Iain Lauchlan dons his frocks again as Dame Clarabelle Crumble in the Belgrade panto Beauty and the Beast which continues until Saturday 9 January while in the B2 auditorium a new comedy from Coventry writer/director Nick Walker, Vampomime, the alternative Christmas show for grown-ups, continues until Saturday 2 January.
Tony Maudsley from ITV’s Benidorm plays Edna Turnblad and Claire Sweeney is Velma Von Tussle in a new production of the musical Hairspray which continues at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham until Saturday 9 January.
Hereford theatre The Courtyard welcomes back Jason Marc Williams in Beauty and the Beast which continues in the main house until Saturday 9 January.
Christopher Biggins, Simon Webbe and Ben Nickless head the cast of Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham which continues until Sunday 10 January.
The Theatre Chipping Norton ventures into Sherwood Forest with a new version of Robin Hood which continues until Sunday 10 January.
Stafford Gatehouse Theatre’s panto with a “rock and roll twist”, Jack and the Beanstalk, continues until Sunday 10 January.
Former Curve artistic director Paul Kerryson returns to the Leicester theatre to direct a new production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! which continues on the main stage at Curve until Saturday 16 January while in the Studio Nikolai Foster directs David Wood’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches which continues until Sunday 17 January.
Nottingham Playhouse panto favourites John Elkington, Tim Frater and Rebecca Little turn again in Dick Whittington which continues until Saturday 16 January.
Birmingham REP is off to Narnia with an adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe which continues until Saturday 16 January.
John Altman is Captain Hook and the Chuckle Brothers play Paul and Barry Smee in Peter Pan at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton which continues until Sunday 24 January.
A cast of 13 actor-musicians and 24 young performers continue in a new production of Robin Hood and Marian at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme until Saturday 30 January.
Marti Pellow, Julian Clary, Lee Mead, Matt Slack and Andrew Ryan head the cast of “the UK’s biggest pantomime” Aladdin which continues at Birmingham Hippodrome until Sunday 31 January.
At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, Wendy and Peter Pan continues in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until Sunday 31 January while in the Swan Theatre Congreve’s Love for Love continues until Friday 22 January and plays in repertoire with Helen Edmundson's new play Queen Anne which continues until Saturday 23 January.