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Essex's best Christmas pantos and family-friendly festive shows in Southend, Brentwood, Havering, Colchester, Chelmsford and Basildon.

THE winner of a national television singing competition is set to tread the boards as he takes on the lead character in a forthcoming pantomime.

THE winner of a national television singing competition is set to tread the boards as he takes on the lead character in a forthcoming pantomime.

IN the original 2020 vision of York’s pantomime season, Dame Berwick Kaler made his comeback in Dick Turpin Rides Again in his newly adopted home of the Grand Opera House. York Theatre Royal had a ball with Cinderella, bedding in a new partnership with Evolution Productions, and the Rowntree Players filled the Joseph Rowntree Theatre with community spirit as ever. Then, however, the pandemic, rather than pantomime, became the P word on all lips, tearing up the script for the winter ahead. Dick Turpin never left the stable; the Theatre Royal took to the road with the Travelling Pantomi...

Published: 3:28 PM December 15, 2020    Blue Peter's Peter Duncan as Dame Trott in his homemade, digital pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk. Tickets are available from the Ipswich Regent - Credit: Peter Duncan Christmas is a time for panto but this year's panto season has been threatened by the ongoing pandemic which have closed theatres but Blue Peter legend and panto fan Peter Duncan is coming to the nation’s rescue. The colour and comic mayhem of the traditional panto transfers from the theatre stage to online as Peter Duncan screens his version of Jack and the Beanstalk this Christmas -...