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 ...

"Let’s banish her to Wolverhampton", booms Brummie Alison Hammond to a packed-out theatre as she makes her panto debut in the city while drawing laughs from an excitable home audience. The larger-than ...

Panto is a funny one. (Hopefully literally.) It is one of the most popularly attended theatre events in Britain, simultaneously being one of the most maligned. It is often fobbed off as being too ...

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 ...

Pantomimes are plays based on a well-known story — often a fairy tale — which are given a bawdy twist. The audience is expected to join in... 'It's behind you!' How Britain goes wild for pantomimes ...