This was my twenty-second pantomime of the 2022/23 season and you hope through the marathon set of visits to save the best to last. After si...

The London Palladium has been the undisputed home of quality variety for many decades and since 2016 has been the home of the biggest pantom...

Edward Albee’s 1962 three-act play Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? is perhaps best known for the 1966 film which starred Elizabeth Taylor an...

Aladdin is one of the best Pantomime titles, it's full of great opportunities for magical and comical business such as the Laundry scene...

When you produce a show built around star names and their past performances to attract the crowd, you are left with some difficulty when tha...

By the time you read this review, this year’s production of Cinderella at the Lighthouse Theatre in Poole will have almost finished its run ...

The Old Savoy is a delightful Art Deco venue independently owned and deserves the support of its local community in Northampton. For this ye...

There is one title that says Christmas Pantomime and that is of course Cinderella. While some producers are tempted to update the story, res...

There is no substitute in Pantomime for a great script and a cast who work as an Ensemble to deliver a good show. Reading Hexagon is lucky t...

It is always exciting and interesting to see a well-known celebrity make their Pantomime debut and each season new familiar faces are attrac...

Michael Grandage has a remarkable track record of West End success and of attracting the very best talent to his productions as well as tack...

Billed as the Greatest Panto on Earth the Richmond theatre pantomime may be overselling itself, but it is certainly a very good-looking show...

Pantomime may be a wonderful Christmas entertainment for the family but at its heart is the storytelling that draws the audience in and make...

The wonderful Hackney Empire has just finished celebrating its 120th year (though it has existed as a TV studio and Bingo hall for some of t...

Salisbury Playhouse took a year off in 2021 from Pantomime and therefore Cinderella was their first in the venue for three years. They borro...

The creative team behind this year’s Newbury Corn Exchange Pantomime, as they have been for the last four years are Clare Plested, Adam Brow...

Peter Duncan, the former Blue Peter presenter and chief scout, and a director and Dame for many stage pantomimes has a great deal of experie...

Every Pantomime reflects its local community and in many, a style emerges which embeds itself in each new production. Berwick Kaler in York,...

Cinderella is a classic children’s pantomime tale that has delighted audiences for decades. It is the epitome of the Pantomime genre with a ...

The story of Rapunzel, the beautiful woman with golden hair who is locked in a tower is best known as one of the Brothers Grimm’s 1812 fairy...