A billowing, grey silk curtain like a ship’s wind-buffeted sail fills the proscenium arch, and the thunder of a musical storm is already building up

Glitzy, glossy and full of razzmatazz, Crossroads Pantomimes’ engaging Snow White is exactly what big budget pantos are all about: much singing, dancing, pyrotechnics, sumptuous costumes, jokes

For sixteen years, Only Fools and Horses had the nation hooked to its Christmas special, with millions of us tuning in to see what brothers Del Boy

I have been to many Eastern Angles Christmas shows over the years, but I have to say that this one is really up with the

Handel composed Theodora nearly a decade after his last opera. It was his favourite oratorio, the only one based on a Christian subject, with characterful music broken

Mashed-up fairy tales, eye-popping visuals and saturated sound and colour go hand in hand in Patrick J O’Reilly’s exuberant The Adventures of Red Riding Hood at Belfast’s

Framed posters announcing a Hamlet musical, which closes after one night, a red plush curtain, this is penny-pinching fringe theatre for producer Max Bialystock who

We think of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a comedy, but it is full of duress, anger and upset, of disruption and downright cruelty and director Eleanor

For those seeking to avoid panto land but who still want some festive fun, Southwark Playhouse is staging The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary, an

Even when it was first conceived, Valentine Davies’s story Miracle on 34th Street was steeped in nostalgia, a yearning for happier, simpler times when belief in Santa

Carlos Acosta’s touring production of Nutcracker in Havana has been on the road since 1 November and will finish in Salford late January, so it

When it comes to panto season, who doesn’t like an opportunity to enjoy a look at Jack’s stalk lubricated by a couple of pints? Whereas