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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

Panto season is packed with fairy godmothers, sleeping princesses, diminutive miners, magic carpets and improbable runaway vegetation. So...

Is there anything more evocative of (and peculiarly distinctive about) a British Christmas than a theatre full of children screaming ‘oh...

The Everyman’s rock ‘n’ roll panto has become a Christmas tradition for many Liverpool theatregoers, and just like the Royal Court down...

Jon Courtenay’s career could have gone in a very different direction had he followed his youthful ambition. The Britain’s Got Talent...

Panto returns to the Epstein Theatre stage this Easter – and producers are promising young theatregoers tall stories and giant...

The yellow brick road leads to St Helens Theatre Royal next month with the arrival of the venue’s half term panto. The Wizard of Oz will...

Goldilocks is coming to Bootle next week – and she’s bringing the ‘Fab 4’ with her. Wise Tortoise Entertainment is staging the festive...

Liverpool’s Royal Court has extended the run of its Christmas show The Scouse Sleeping Beauty. Theatre bosses took the decision because...

‘Tis the season to be jolly…silly, and the Everyman rock ‘n’ roll panto evidently isn’t going to let the spectre of a new ‘Rona variant...

Twelve months ago, Sean Jones should have been in rehearsals for the Floral Pavilion’s festive panto. After a successful run in Snow...