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She was the most celebrated drag act of the age, beloved of royalty, a national treasure who delighted and scandalised the British public by performing as a wo

<strong>Editorial:</strong> There’s nothing like a panto to banish the blues, especially if it stars Sir Ian McKellen as Mother Goose – the grande dame of seasonal fun and frolics

Fire the glitter cannons! Unleash the water pistols! The panto season is here. But how did the cross-dressing dame become so central to the tradition? And in an age of gender fluidity, should we still be laughing?

A PANTO season is always special. For youngsters it might be their first experience of the theatre and they are captivated by the magic of it all.

EXPLOSIVE, unpredictable and terrifyingly talented, Stuart Macbeth is not so much a musical dynamo as a nuclear reactor in the advanced stages of…

THE people of the past did not live in black and white. They lived, like us, in fabulous, glorious, multi-hued colour.

Roy Walker is a TV comedy legend – and synonymous with the game show Catchphrase, even two decades after he stepped down following 14 years as the host.

Panto is back in Hackney for the venue's 120th anniversary

Take a musical journey back to 1991. Plus: Turning Red is Pixar’s family masterpiece about a giant red panda. Here’s everything to watch this evening

From The Limehouse Golem to Lady Bird, pick of the weeks TV films