LONDON — Foreboding music begins. A scary green witch announces her arrival with a cackle. It's the opening of Wicked Witches, a British holiday-time play known as a "pantomime," at a North London ...

A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and run later in the year The Christmas decorations have been packed away, kids are back at school and new year ...

It's official. The pumpkins have been carved and the fireworks have fizzled, which means Christmas is truly on the horizon. And for theatre folk, Christmas means one thing and one thing only… PANTO!

Unusually this year, I saw the first night of the Edinburgh and the Glasgow panto in the same week, and seeing them in such close succession really rams home how each seems to exemplify the spirit of ...

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For the first time since childhood, I returned to the Joburg Theatre where, every year families, schoolchildren and theatre lovers alike gather to watch a production that has become an annual ...