Williams also features in CBeebies' Andy and the Band and has plenty of experience playing more serious roles, so when asked ...

The comedic character is traditionally a male in drag and the late actor, John Inman, played the dame many times. Some of the ...

Aldianna was clear a dame has to be "loud, brash and in your face". They both said you don't want "a shrinking violet".

A television director has said he wants to bring back "warm and sparkly" shows for the whole family to enjoy, ahead of taking on the role of a dame in a pantomime. Paul Gibson, 55, from Bedworth, ...

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 ...

"Maybe we all need the pantomime a little bit more than ever now," he says. And even though it's an art that's been around ...

A pantomime dame has hit out at a council’s “attack” on her library storytime events for families after they were cancelled over protest concerns. Mama G, who is an LGBTQ+ campaigner and a former ...

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 ...

The Arts Theatre Cambridge launched its first ‘Design the Dame’s Dress’ competition alongside this year’s pantomime.

Pantomimes are plays based on a well-known story — often a fairy tale — which are given a bawdy twist. The audience is ...