Sussex’s Chris Jordan won Best Direction at the 2025 Pantomime Awards in Woking for Snow White at Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne.

On Sunday 13 April, the winners of The Pantomime Awards 2025 were announced by the UK Pantomime Association at a ceremony full of song and laughter at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking.

Simon Sladen, chair of the UK Pantomime Association, said: "Huge congratulations to all of the nominees and winners at the Pantomime Awards 2025.

Best newcomer to pantomime Owain Wyn Evans: Cinderella, New Theatre, Cardiff (Crossroads Pantomimes) Also nominated: Colum Findlay: Jack and the Beanstalk, Eden Court, Inverness (Imagine Theatre ...

Victorian MP Anne Webster, who represents the geographically large seat of Mallee in north west Victoria, has rented an office she plans to keep empty so she can plaster it with posters.

Virginia Feito’s relentlessly gory novel “Victorian Psycho” announces its narrator’s grisly intentions from the start. By Jac Jemc Jac Jemc is the author, most recently, of the novel ...

During the early Victorian period (1843) the Theatres' Act was passed by parliament. This new Act allowed all types of spoken dialogue in theatres for the first time and very quickly new pantomimes ...

The Panto on Boxing Day, not only kick-starting the performance run of MADC’s annual panto tradition for another year, but marking the first pantomime to be performed at the newly refurbished ...

Nokkla Safra u t-Tliet Orsijiet Vince’tor Entertainment is presenting a pantomime in Maltese for all the family at the Junior College, Msida, until January 5. The panto turns the Goldlilocks and ...

In the Victorian era, pantomime gained popularity as a Christmas entertainment for families, incorporating fairy tales, music hall comedy, and cross-dressing, with men playing ‘dames’ and women often ...