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There's an art to writing something that will amuse and entrance small children while also making adults laugh out loud. Sarah Middleton
Loughborough has a good track record for pantomime. This year's show is Little Wolf Entertainment at its very best. It never sits
This is a curious departure for Little Wolf Entertainment. The company has a reputation for creating first-rate traditional pantos with scripts that
Nottingham's Theatre Royal has been ill-served by its pantos in the past, but this one is a corker. Madness and mayhem dominate
Oliver O'Shea's revival of this show from 2014 sees Charles Dickens' classic tale brought to life by a talented ensemble of actor-musicians.
This is Kenneth Alan Taylor's 37th pantomime for the Nottingham Playhouse. I've seen almost all of them and I think this is
Nick Winston's production dispels at a single magnificent stroke those habitual audience demurrals that, however showy and extraordinary it is, Cats doesn't
The waterways-based company Mikron has perfected the art of no-frills theatre over 48 years of touring. It performs anywhere that's not an
Adapted by the author, David Almond's marvellous, mystical children's novel translates well to the stage. Michael (Sam Swann) is an unsettled young
It's good to see panto flourishing at the New Theatre Royal Lincoln, a venue that was given a new lease of life
The Haymarket closed in 2007, making way for Curve, so its £3.6 million makeover and resurrection by an ardent bunch of people
Katie Mitchell adapted and directed this stage version of the Dr Seuss classic for the National Theatre in 2009. It works particularly
It matters not one jot that the story of White Christmas is so thin as to be almost transparent. It's a glorious
Christmas shows are often a child's first experience of theatre, so their value on that score can't be underestimated. Alongside its family
Morgan Brind is seemingly inexhaustible, writing, directing and designing for Little Wolf Entertainment's outstanding Loughborough panto while also playing Dame Trott for
There's enough energy coming off the stage here to power the whole of Mansfield, and most of it comes from Adam Moss
Loughborough Town Hall consistently sets the benchmark for traditional panto in the East Midlands. This is the fifth successive panto from Morgan
J M Barrie might ponder where the story had gone in this, a cheery nod to the adventures of Peter Pan. Whether
Mike Kenny's gift is to take a classic tale and make the wildest of fancies seem wholly reasonable. So what better than
Watching panto at the Playhouse is like sitting in front of a log fire with all the family home for Christmas. It
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, the operation to get Jewish children out of Nazi Germany. But Diane Samuels'
Jim Dodge's comic novel Fup is beautifully transposed to Kneehigh's home territory of Cornwall in this touring production. Grandaddy Jake has achieved
Words are a minor component of A Thing Mislaid. It's an enigmatic and often impish two-hander from Maison Foo, a company now
In the 50th year of what is now the most-performed musical in history, director Andrew Wright celebrates Joseph's origins as a school
Mufaro Makubika’s first main-stage play, Shebeen won the 2017 Alfred Fagon Award for best new work by a black British playwright, in
