The pantomime horse, like the cross-cast principal boy and the Ugly Sisters, is part of an off-kilter world, a place of chaos and disorder. Far from being reactionary, pantomime is liberating and ...

With Aladdin, which ends at the Alhambra this weekend, Alan worked with director Ed Curtis and Qdos MD Michael Harrison, then panto king Billy Pearce added his own material. "He's a genius," says ...

The Vaults is not the place to see a conventional pantomime and expectations of an 'alternative' panto are more than fulfilled with their festive offering Aladdin And The Feast Of Wonders; ...

The Presidio Theatre presents a bright new addition to the Bay Area holiday entertainment landscape this December 2-31 with the world premiere of the panto, The Magic Lamp, that reframes the ...

And in December of 1986, as he patiently explained, Almagor inadvertently helped create the modern Hanukkah musical, when his version of the “Aladdin” panto opened in Tel Aviv’s now-defunct ...

Big-hearted, colourful pantomime that updates the story for modern audiences The central theme running through this take on the classic story is that money will not necessarily make you happy. In ...

This is Aladdin but not as you know it. Andrew Pollard’s family Christmas fantasy puts a modern twist on the traditional tale of the lad with the lamp. One of its biggest assets is Paul Ryan ...

As an American in Britain, my pantomime knowledge was distinctly limited when I walked into Hackney Empire to watch Aladdin a few weeks ago. I walked out forever changed, feeling more British than ...

Every year, the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre presents one of the very best pantomimes in the country and this yuletide, it’s the turn of Aladdin and his flying carpet to swoop into the city centre ...

The big mistake I made when I took my seat for Aladdin and the Twankeys, my first York panto (and probably the first panto I’d attended since Berwick Kaler began his record-breaking York run 34 years ...

ALAN Mc Hugh has a busy year ahead. As soon as he finishes playing Nurse Nellie MacDuff in Snow White up in Aberdeen, he'll be working on a whopping… ...