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 ...

A trip to the pantomime is a Christmas tradition but they also lift the January gloom and run later in the year ...

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 ...

With Christmas only a few days away, pantomime season is in full swing! Everyone loves a panto, with its traditions of booing and hissing, repetition of ‘oh no it isn’t’ and ‘oh yes it is’, and ...