Interviews and feature articles on pantomime.
Aladdin will be the panto at De Montfort Hall in December 2019, the Leicester venue has revealed.
More than £24,000 has been donated at Birmingham Hippodrome which will enable the theatre to expand its relaxed performances.
Warrington theatre company Not Too Tame completes the UK Christmas tour of its immersive 'pop-up punky panto' Cinderella: A Wicked Mother of a Night Out! at the Welcome Inn in Ordsall, Salford.
Simon Sladen brings you his final column of 2018 in which he surveys the landscape of Pantoland in a year of anniversaries.
Singer, West End performer and actor Duncan James is to play Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk at Derby Arena.
Darren Day, Flawless, The Grumbleweeds and Rachael Wooding will apper in Northampton Royal and Derngate’s panto Peter Pan.
Joe Pasquale plays Smee and John Challis becomes Captain Hook in Nottingham Theatre Royal’s panto Peter Pan.
Nottingham’s favourite outlaw will return to the city’s Playhouse in its 2018 panto, Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood.
Former Leicester City and England striker Gary Lineker is to appear at Leicester Haymarket during its panto Treasure Island—but not in person.
Coventry favourites Iain Lauchlan and Craig Hollingsworth will return to the Belgrade alongside a mixture of new and familiar faces for the theatre’s 2018 panto Sleeping Beauty.
Liverpool Royal Court's Christmas show, The Scouse Cinderella, is full of familiar faces.
Fifty years after designing his first pantomime at the Belgrade Theatre, designer Terry Parsons is back in Coventry to work on the theatre’s 2018 offering Sleeping Beauty.
Northumberland Theatre Company is looking for two trainee actors for a panto in December.
Liverpool Everyman’s rock ‘n’ roll panto is a festive favourite.
Casting has been announced for the Stafford Gatehouse Theatre production of Dick Whittington the Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto at Christmas 2018.
After their Beauty and the Beast at the Black-E last year, Drops of Light bring their pantomime to Liverpool’s newest venue, The Hope Street Theatre.
Writer and director Iain Lauchlan will take part in his 24th panto at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: Sleeping Beauty.
Oldham Coliseum’s traditional family pantomime runs for nine weeks.
Cinderella at Manchester Opera House stars Coronation Street’s Villain of the Year Connor McIntyre alongside his first victim on the soap, Les Dennis, as the Ugly Sisters, with pop star Gareth Gates playing Prince Charming.
Su Pollard will play the Wicked Queen in Malvern Theatres’ 2018 panto Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Katrina Bryan from CBeebies’ Nina and the Neurons will play Fairy Bowbells in Lichfield Garrick’s 2018 panto Dick Whittington.
Simon Sladen brings you his latest column in which he reflects on the ways panto casting has made the news over the past month.
Audiences at St Helens Theatre Royal this Christmas will be treated to the high-flying panto.
The cast of this year’s Christmas panto at the Epstein in Liverpool should scrub up well.
Pantomime will return to Hartlepool Town Hall Theatre this year
Oldham Coliseum Theatre features Fine Time Fontayne and Simeon Truby as the Ugly Sisters in this year’s festive Cinderella.
Regal Entertainments are bringing their panto Beauty and the Beast to St Helens.
Young people aged between 9 and 16 from across Warwickshire are being invited to audition for the junior chorus for Sleeping Beauty, the 2018 panto at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre.
Andrew Pollard Lawrence Batley Theatre Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield 15 December 2018 to 6 January 2019
Berwick Kaler York Theatre Royal York Theatre Royal 13 December 2018 to 2 February 2019
Alan McHugh with additional material by Paul Chuckle and Phil Butler Qdos Entertainment New Victoria Theatre, Woking 10 December 2018 to 6 January 2019
Alan McHugh with additional material by Ben Nickless and Les Dennis Qdos Entertainment Opera House, Manchester 8 to 30 December 2018
Neil Bromley and Tony Casement Daryl Back with HQ Theatre Wyvern Theatre Swindon 8 December 2018 to 6 January 2019
Morgan Brind Derby LIVE and Little Wolf Entertainment Derby Arena 8 December 2018 to 5 January 2019
Alan McHugh and Jonathan Kiley, adapted from the original by J M Barrie Qdos Entertainment Richmond Theatre 8 December 2018 to 6 January 2019
Alan McHugh and David McGillivray Qdos Entertainment London Palladium 8 December 2018 to 13 January 2019
Alan McHugh with additional material by Paul Merton and Pete Firman Qdos Entertainment New Wimbledon Theatre 8 December 2018 to 6 January 2019
Jamie Smith Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Presents Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 7 December 2018 to 6 January 2019
Guy Pascal and Jezz Weatherall Enchanted Entertainment Tyne Theatre and Opera House, Newcastle 7 to 30 December 2018
Paul Hendy Sheffield Theatres and Evolution Productions Sheffield Lyceum 7 December 2018 to 6 January 2019
Clare Allen Georgian Theatre Royal The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire 7 December 2018 to 13 January 2019
Paul Ferguson, based on the story by J M Barrie Blue Genie Entertainment Playhouse Whitley Bay 1 December 2018 to 5 January 2019
Andrew Pollard Salisbury Playhouse Salisbury Playhouse 1 December 2018 to 13 January 2019
Book and lyrics by Sarah A Nixon and Mark Chatterton, original music and lyri... Theatre Royal, Stratford East 1 December 2018 to 12 January 2019
Jamie Alexander Wilson Sevenoaks Panto Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks 30 November 2018 to 6 January 2019
Kenneth Alan Taylor Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company Nottingham Playhouse 30 November 2018 to 19 January 2019
Phil Willmott The Corn Exchange Company The Corn Exchange Newbury 30 November 2018 to 6 January 2019
Peter Rowe City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds 30 November 2018 to 13 January 2019
Peter Rowe New Wolsey Theatre New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich 29 November 2018 to 2 February 2019
Chris Towndrow, adapted by Guildford Fringe Guildford Fringe Theatre Company The Back Room of The Star Inn 29 November 2018 to 5 January 2019
Ray Spencer and Graeme Thompson The Customs House The Customs House, South Shields 27 November 2018 to 5 January 2019
Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper with songs by Jon Bradfield Above the Stag Theatre Above the Stag Theatre (Main House) 27 November 2018 to 12 January 2019
Susie McKenna, original music by Steven Edis Hackney Empire 24 November 2018 to 6 January 2019
Paul Hendy Evolution Productions Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury 23 November 2018 to 6 January 2019
Christian Patterson Theatr Clwyd Anthony Hopkins Theatre, Theatr Clwyd, Mold 23 November 2018 to 19 January 2019
Andrew Pollard Greenwich Theatre Greenwich Theatre 23 November 2018 to 13 January 2019
John Savournin Charles Court Opera King's Head Theatre 23 November 2018 to 5 January 2019
Neil Armstrong and Paul Hartley Gala Theatre Gala Theatre, Durham 22 November 2018 to 5 January 2019
Jude Christian and Cariad Lloyd Lyric Hammersmith Lyric Hammersmith 17 November 2018 to 6 January 2019
If you think slosh scenes are tosh and audience participation is pants then pantos just aren’t your thing. Sandra Giorgetti suggests some alternative shows on offer for the festive season for young and old.
A listing of all professional pantomimes and children's Chrisrmas shows in the North East.
