“Panto has everything theatrical – song, dance, verse, slapstick, soliloquy, audience participation, spectacle, cross- dressing and a good plot, strong on morality and romance – what more could you ...

“Cinderella” currently running at People’s Light & Theatre is the fifth pantomime Kathryn Petersen has written, and she had struck pure gold. It is not just a fractured fairy tale bit of a jolly old ...

You could tell the audience was hooked the minute the Potato Fairy waltzed on stage. Or rather, the second time she waltzed on, after prepping the crowd to scream and clap as if Justin Bieber himself ...

City Theatre at Sacramento City College will bring back Panto with Snow White: A British Panto by Christine Nicholson. Luther Hanson directs this crazy holiday show, after a three year Panto drought.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. For many Connecticut theatre buffs, the Christmas season only starts when ...

Those in the United Kingdom have plentiful opportunities this holiday season to see a traditional show known as a Christmas panto. A quick Google search reveals that London alone has a vast array of ...

The Stark Ravens Historical Players will present “Panto, the Musical Fairytale Adventure,” a centuries-old English pantomime, Feb. 15-17 at the Sir Francis Drake High School Little Theatre at 1327 Sir ...

This essay challenges past scholarship's emphasis on a two-part structure for early English pantomime by using quantitative data to stress the diversity of pantomime's form. One curious example, the ...

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 ...