Sunday, December 31, 2017
It was feared that when Fairfield Halls closed its doors for refurbishment in 2016 that live pantomime would disappear from the town.
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Over the years, the story of Peter Pan has morphed from magical Christmas show into full-on riotous pantomime with varying degrees of
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Before Qdos Entertainment ventured into the London Palladium, the shinning jewel in it’s pantomime crown was at the Birmingham Hippodrome. It’s still
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The story of Robin Hood, with its broadly painted heroes and villains, makes a good basis for a family pantomime. Writer Alan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AMBuilding on the success of last year’s Down the Rabbit Hole, Sink the Pink is back in the basement of Selfridges with
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Of all the pantomimes, Aladdin perhaps offers the biggest opportunity to a stage designer. The story is, after all, filled with exotic
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Last year, Qdos Entertainment brought pantomime back to the Palladium in grand style with its production of Cinderella. That show was a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16PMThe New Wimbledon pantomime was once a stronghold for First Family Entertainment, now it’s been taken on by Qdos. It’s been 15
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The Slave of the Ring is a single mum on a zero hours contract so when Abanazar beckons, she sends the kids
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMTrish Cooke and Robert Hyman’s adaptation of Rapunzel for Theatre Royal Stratford East may stray wildly from the original story, but that’s
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Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper, co-authors of Snow White – Rotten to the Core, have evicted the dwarves and replaced them with a
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The 50th anniversary passing of the Sexual Offences Act has resulted in a lot of interesting new work. 1967 was a major
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Encouraged by the reception of High Society last year, the same creative team has returned to the Mill at Sonning, with Lerner
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This may be Charles Court Opera’s 11th pantomime in Islington, but rather than re-run familiar titles the company looks for inspiration elsewhere. Ancient
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The Hackney Empire pantomime has a proud history of innovation and diversity. It’s known for good all-round family entertainment. The challenge of
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When Jayaben Desai initiated a picket line at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in 1976, she was setting off a string of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AMAs the festive season gets underway, Paul Vale shares his picks from the UK’s Christmas theatre offerings 1. Aladdin, Towngate Theatre, Basildon November 28-January
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Earlier this year, the panto war ended when Qdos took over long-time competitor First Family Entertainment. Paul Vale looks at the unforeseen
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In 2007 Blair on Broadway garnered much critical acclaim for creators Iain Hollingshead and Timothy Muller. Ten years later they have reunited
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Neither Anna nor Becca are where they are supposed to be. Teenager Becca has been forced to do community service in a
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Camp stereotypes and the class system have always been mainstays of British comedy. Long before homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK, there
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Following on from the successful stage adaptation of David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny, Horrible Histories’ writer Neal Foster has turned Awful Auntie –
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Though it’s common on the fringe to see big shows scaled down for small spaces, it’s a precarious game that can sometimes
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With music and lyrics by Madness, Our House went on to win the Olivier award for best new musical after ist premiere
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Investment in workshops and development programmes is paying off as the North American nation looks to develop a production line of hit
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A week after the National Theatre’s flailing attempt to turn the story of Saint George into a state of the nation play,
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The rituals of a wedding are prime fodder for a farce. The heightened emotions surrounding the event have been a huge source
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest piece of literature known to man, dating back to the Third Dynasty of
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In its heyday, between the 1950s and 1970s, Hammer Films, the British horror film studio, successfully snatched the horror genre back from
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Beneath the bold, humorous theatrical style of Joseph Barnes Phillips’ new play Big Foot is a simple, semi-autobiographical rites of passage tale.
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In 1947, the partition of India and the newly formed Pakistan resulted in the migration of more that 16 million people. The
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