A school said it removed Christmas references from a panto performance put on for pupils and parents to make them feel “safe and valued”. Mandy Ovenden, the head teacher of Wherwell Primary School in ...

Newport-based amateur dramatics group Nova Pantomime is preparing for a swashbuckling two-weekend run of its 2026 pantomime.

LONDON — 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 ...

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 ...