LONDON – Here’s a recipe as essential to Christmas in Britain as turkey, tinsel and mince pies. Mix a fairy-tale plot with topical references, slapstick, song, dance and double entendres. Drench in ...

Pantomimes are plays based on a well-known story — often a fairy tale — which are given a bawdy twist. The audience is expected to join in throughout, shouting as loudly as they can.

A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and run later in the year ...

Brick Lane Music Hall is delighted to announce its 2026 pantomime for grown ups, Jack and His Giant Stalk, written and ...

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Foreboding music begins. A scary green witch announces her arrival with a cackle. It’s the opening of Wicked Witches, a British holiday-time play known as a “pantomime,” at a North London theater. But ...