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 ...

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 ...

Ivan Jones of Dallas transforms himself into Mrs. T Time as part of a British panto presented by Theatre Britain at the Courtyard Theater in Plano. He arrived at the theater to change into character ...

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 ...

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 journey through British pantomime, from its earliest days through to Pamela Anderson Actress Dorothy Ward, playing the part of the principal boy in the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, talks to a ...