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".

Belfast entertainer John Linehan tells Gail Bell that playing Panto Dame May McFettridge has always been a blast - even with heavy frocks and bloody eyebrows ...

John Linehan has been playing the dame at Pantomimes in the Grand Opera House in Belfast for 34 years. A new exhibition shows Scotland's long-running love affair with panto, from patter to pratfalls.

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, ...

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 ...

Ireland’s only female panto dame, Fionula Linehan describes being in hospital and bidding goodbye to a sport she’d held dear ...

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 ...