After pantomime dame Joe Meloy fell ill before a performance, the show seemed destined to be cancelled. But in true theatre fashion, the phrase "the show must go on" was put into action as senior ...

"It's behind you!" is ringing around the theatre aisles, so it must be time for pantomime actors to take to the stage in one of Christmas's most important roles – the dame. Over-the-top, camp and ...

He has appeared as a pantomime Dame — a world-wise, wisecracking woman, invariably played by a man in flamboyant drag — for 18 years in a row in Hackney, and several years before that at other venues.

Watching Window Twankey or Dame Trott making veiled innuendos in a room with screaming toddlers is a staple of British family life. We all remember yelling ‘he’s behind you’ at a pantomime dame when ...

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 ...

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 theater. But ...