Pantomime, or panto, is a family comedy filled with fairy tales, music, slapstick and audience participation and is a holiday season staple across the UK. This year, one production is selling out a ...

Drawing on the absurd live performance genre of pantomimes, Writer, Co-Director and performer Virginia Gay's latest work is the hilarious and heartwarming THE BOOMKAK PANTO. A pantomime within a play ...

"In comedian Vikki Stone, West London has found itself a proper panto superstar; a rival, at last, to Hackney's great dame Clive Rowe. Her baddie is the absolute business – so camply malevolent that ...

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 ...

As someone who moved to the UK last year, I’m still getting used to the tradition of pantomimes but have fallen in love with their boundless energy and cheesy jokes. Recently, I attended a 10:30 AM ...

"I can confirm that unless you're an absolute prude you will leave the show having guffawed your face off. Julian Clary is the crowning queen of the show as he struts his caustically funny stuff in ...