There’s an art to writing something that will amuse and entrance small children while also making adults laugh out loud. Sarah Middleton
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMLoughborough has a good track record for pantomime. This year’s show is Little Wolf Entertainment at its very best. It never sits
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AMThis is a curious departure for Little Wolf Entertainment. The company has a reputation for creating first-rate traditional pantos with scripts that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMNottingham’s Theatre Royal has been ill-served by its pantos in the past, but this one is a corker. Madness and mayhem dominate
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMOliver O’Shea’s revival of this show from 2014 sees Charles Dickens’ classic tale brought to life by a talented ensemble of actor-musicians.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMThis is Kenneth Alan Taylor’s 37th pantomime for the Nottingham Playhouse. I’ve seen almost all of them and I think this is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMNick Winston’s production dispels at a single magnificent stroke those habitual audience demurrals that, however showy and extraordinary it is, Cats doesn’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMThe waterways-based company Mikron has perfected the art of no-frills theatre over 48 years of touring. It performs anywhere that’s not an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMAdapted by the author, David Almond’s marvellous, mystical children’s novel translates well to the stage. Michael (Sam Swann) is an unsettled young
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMIt’s good to see panto flourishing at the New Theatre Royal Lincoln, a venue that was given a new lease of life
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMThe Haymarket closed in 2007, making way for Curve, so its £3.6 million makeover and resurrection by an ardent bunch of people
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMKatie Mitchell adapted and directed this stage version of the Dr Seuss classic for the National Theatre in 2009. It works particularly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMIt matters not one jot that the story of White Christmas is so thin as to be almost transparent. It’s a glorious
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMChristmas shows are often a child’s first experience of theatre, so their value on that score can’t be underestimated. Alongside its family
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMMorgan Brind is seemingly inexhaustible, writing, directing and designing for Little Wolf Entertainment’s outstanding Loughborough panto while also playing Dame Trott for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMThere’s enough energy coming off the stage here to power the whole of Mansfield, and most of it comes from Adam Moss
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMLoughborough Town Hall consistently sets the benchmark for traditional panto in the East Midlands. This is the fifth successive panto from Morgan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMJ M Barrie might ponder where the story had gone in this, a cheery nod to the adventures of Peter Pan. Whether
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMMike Kenny’s gift is to take a classic tale and make the wildest of fancies seem wholly reasonable. So what better than
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMWatching panto at the Playhouse is like sitting in front of a log fire with all the family home for Christmas. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AMThis year marks the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, the operation to get Jewish children out of Nazi Germany. But Diane Samuels’
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:29AMJim Dodge’s comic novel Fup is beautifully transposed to Kneehigh’s home territory of Cornwall in this touring production. Grandaddy Jake has achieved
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMWords are a minor component of A Thing Mislaid. It’s an enigmatic and often impish two-hander from Maison Foo, a company now
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMIn the 50th year of what is now the most-performed musical in history, director Andrew Wright celebrates Joseph’s origins as a school
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMMufaro Makubika’s first main-stage play, Shebeen won the 2017 Alfred Fagon Award for best new work by a black British playwright, in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMContact Theatre has vacated its Manchester base during building work, and is making a virtue of necessity by creating site-specific work. Handlooms
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMWhat a delicious adventure story this is and how well it adapts to the stage. Adam Penford’s fluid and inventive production of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMA native of the city, Adam Penford, the new, youthful artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse, has created a real buzz with his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMPantomime at Mansfield’s Palace Theatre is keenly awaited and much loved seasonal treat. This year there’s a big welcome for returning favourite,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMDirector Andy Manley has re-imagined the story of Black Beauty using just two actors and a ramshackle horsebox. This is home to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMThis is the latest and finest collaboration between Curve and Rose Theatre Kingston. Children’s theatre doesn’t come much better than Roald Dahl
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