Composer Santino DeAngelo resurrects the ancient Roman art of pantomime in Narcissus Return to the days of the Roman coliseum with this special program from WSKG Arts! Featuring an original score ...
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 ...
The great Victorian playwright George Bernard Shaw was not an admirer of pantomimes. He wrote in 1897 that this dramatic genre is “a glittering, noisy void”, which worries “the physical senses without ...
There is an old joke. A veteran actor takes a job in pantomime. One night, as he straps on the back-end of a panto horse, he wonders aloud what happened to his career. A wag replies: "It’s behind you!
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!
Award-winning pantomime producer Imagine Theatre has announced casting across the UK in their upcoming pantomime season of nineteen pantomimes across England Scotland and Wales. They are supported by ...
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 ...