With Christmas fast approaching, the festive season is a great time to get together for a bus trip to enjoy your local pantomime.
Dick Whittington
Nottingham Theatre Royal
Saturday 9 December - Sunday 14 January
TV favourite and panto legend Shane Richie leads the cast in the title role, and TV Doctor and children’s BAFTA winner Dr Ranj will play Spirit of The Bells. Musical theatre star Anne Smith will play rodent-in-chief, Queen Rat, Emily Beth Harrington as Alice Fitzwarren, panto dame extraordinaire Iain Stuart Robinson, joins the cast as Sarah the Cook, and performer Kenan-Lewis Smith will star as Dick Whittington’s trusty sidekick, Kitty Cat. Join Dick Whittington as he seeks fame, fortune, and happiness journeying to become Lord Mayor. Can he outwit the evil rodent Queen Rat and free the city from her team of revolting rodents? Find out in the ultimate magical pantomime adventure! Packed with all the traditional pantomime ingredients Nottingham audiences know to expect, don’t miss the action-packed pantomime that promises to be full of laugh-out-loud comedy, stunning scenery, beautiful costumes and plenty of boos and hisses. Dick Whittington is brought to you by the world’s biggest pantomime producer, Crossroads Pantomimes.
Book your tickets here - Dick Whittington, Theatre Royal, Nottingham (trch.co.uk)
Mother Goose
Derby Arena
Friday 8 December - Sunday 14 January
The award-winning team behind smash-hit Derby Arena pantomimes is hatching a plan to make Mother Goose an action-packed adventure guaranteed to have the whole family honking with laughter.
Derby's Award Winning Dame, MORGAN BRIND, Coronation Street's TODD BOYCE, KRISTIAN CUNNINGHAM, NICOLA MARTINUS-SMITH, RODDY PETERS
Mother Goose has a loving family who drive her quackers, a bird sanctuary for peaky poultry in the village of Squalkstone and even a magical goose that lays golden eggs. She has everything anyone could possibly wish for, except the one thing she really wants, to be beautiful.
When she makes a deal with Demon Vanity a little fowl play means she gets a lot more than she bargained for.
Join us on this flight of fancy as the Egg-selent 2022 award-winning Dame Morgan Brind returns for this egg-stra special show packed full of hilarious yokes! It’s going to be cracking!
With s-peck-tacular sets, breath-taking special effects, egg-squisite costumes and mountains of mayhem, the team behind previous smash-hit Derby Arena pantomimes are hatching a plan to make this the perfect action-packed adventure guaranteed to have the whole family honking with laughter.
Book your tickets here - Buy Tickets | Derby Live
Cinderella (In Person)
Nottingham Playhouse
Friday 1 December - Saturday 13 January
Polish your glass slippers and line up your pumpkins for you SHALL go to the Ball. Our legendary Panto is the most enchanting story of them all – the magical tale of Cinderella!
We’ll be booing Cinderella’s surly sisters Rose and Violet, swooning at Prince Charming, marvelling at the Fairy Godmother and enjoying an added touch of fabulous glamour and glitz from Nottingham’s favourite panto dame John Elkington.
With live music, dazzling dance and comedy chaos galore, it’s the perfect festive treat for all the family.
Book your tickets here- Cinderella (In Person) - Nottingham Playhouse