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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Here’s a recipe as essential ...

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 ...