The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands. When William Blake wrote these lines he had been touched by the spectacle of ...

The majority are local, but some cross continents, cross oceans, to see him transmogrify each year into the longest-serving pantomime dame in the business. It was his Andrew Aguecheek in a York ...

Purposeful over-the-top acting, caricatures of stock characters, and physical gags: Pantomime touches on something both universal and comedic about the human experience. This nonverbal performance ...

In the weeks running up to Christmas, pantomimes take centre stage in theatres across the country. For many children, their first theatre-experience is seeing the pantomime at Christmas. "I think ...

There is an old joke. A veteran actor takes a job in pantomime. One night, as he straps on the back-end of a panto horse, he wonders aloud what happened to his career. A wag replies: "It’s behind you!

A pantomime at a new venue in Preston has been cancelled in its entirety due to what its producers called "unforeseen" delays to stage construction. Co-producer Darling Productions UK told The Stage ...

Pantomimes and politics: Both thrive on performance, exaggeration and audience participation. In pantomimes, the audience boos the villain and cheers the hero; in parliament, political leaders are ...