Updated 12 November 2012
The Panto Season extends from mid-November to mid February all over the UK. Cities, towns and villages all have one or more pantos on for the holiday season. Use this list to find some of the bigger productions.What's that? You don't know what a panto is? Click to find out about pantos - the traditional British family entertainment.
Panto List
- Bath Theatre Royal Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Birmingham Hippodrome Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates .
- Bristol Hippodrome Aladdin
- Cambridge Arts Theatre Jack and the Beanstalk
- Canterbury,Marlowe Theatre Sleeping Beauty with Gareth Gates and Toyah Willcox
- Cardiff, New Theatre Sleeping Beauty
- Derby, Assembly Rooms Peter Pan
- Edinburgh, Kings TheatreMother Goose This is a very Scottish version - one of the characters is Elvis McSporran
- Glasgow
- King's Theatre Cinderella
- Tron TheatreAganeza Scrooge Original as always, this is an all female, panto version of Dicken's classic A Christmas Carol
- Leeds, Carriageworks Jack and the Beanstalk
- Llandudno,Venue Cymru, Wales Peter Pan
- Liverpool Empire Cinderella
- London and London area
- The Beck Theatre in Hayes, Middlesex Peter Pan with Adam Woodyatt from East Enders as Captain Hook
- The Compass Theatre, Ickenham, Middlesex Cinderella
- Hackney Empire Dick Whittington and his Cat
- Greenwich Theatre Robin Hood Everyone loves the Greenwich Panto - so popular they don't even need TV stars to draw the crowds.
- Millfield Theatre Mother Goose
- New Wimbledon Theatre Snow White Priscilla Presley makes her London and Panto debut as the Wicked Queen, with Warwick Davis as Prof.
- The Rosemary Branch, pub theatre The Three Musketeers
- The Shaw Theatre Beauty and the Beast
- Theatre Royal Stratford EastJack and the Beanstalk
- Manchester The Opera HousePeter Pan , David Hasselhoff returns as Captain Hook
- Musselburgh, Brunton Theatre Puss in Boots
- Norwich,Theatre Royal Aladdin
- Nottingham,Theatre Royal Cinderella
- Oxford Playhouse Dick Whittington
- Richmond Theatre Aladdin
- Sheffield, Lyceum Cinderella
- Swansea, Grand Theatre Cinderella
- York
- Theatre Royal Robin Hood and His Merry Mam
- Grand Opera House Sleeping Beauty
