Complex writing, leftfield family shows and thoroughly bleak dramas make theatre stages far from jolly this Christmas. Praise be, then, for the new wave of pseudo-pantoThe theatrical form most associated with the winter holidays is pantomime, and that genre still flourishes, especially in the super-panto that has become an annual tradition at the Birmingham Hippodrome: this year featuring Marti Pellow and Julian Clar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:38AM on December 24, 2015