You might not have seen this year’s pantomime yet, but tickets for Theatre Royal Newcastle’s 2011/12 pantomime, Sleeping Beauty, are released for sale today, a week before the curtain lifts for its ...

Pantomime is a much-loved institution, but how is it created? What tools and processes are used? Working from purely a title, this practical book explains how scripts and a design can develop together ...

"I thought, no, no, it's beneath me," says Christopher Biggins, remembering when he was first approached to do panto decades ago. "I don't do pantomime, I'm an actor." "Eventually they mentioned money ...

Purposeful over-the-top acting, caricatures of stock characters, and physical gags: Pantomime touches on something both universal and comedic about the human experience. This nonverbal performance ...