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 ...

British pantomime is vastly different from what people worldwide, including Koreans, typically imagine. The earliest form of pantomime, born around the 4th century BC by the Greeks, was a one-person ...

The Pantomime Awards 2026 celebrated the best in British panto, with Brian Conley and Lesley Joseph receiving the first ever Panto Icon Awards at a star-studded ceremony.

With a British institution like the pantomime, in which there are hundreds of productions every year around the holidays, it is very easy for one to assume that making a good panto comes easy. After ...

It's official. The pumpkins have been carved and the fireworks have fizzled, which means Christmas is truly on the horizon. And for theatre folk, Christmas means one thing and one thing only… PANTO!