Pantos and Christmas Shows 2025 A Family Experience
Northern Ballet's Nutcracker
18th December 2025 to 4th January 2026
Share in Clara’s adventures as she is swept away by her Nutcracker Prince into an enchanting winter wonderland. Don’t miss dazzling dancing snowflakes, the famous Sugar Plum Fairy and the notorious Mouse King in the ultimate festive entertainment.
Jack and the Beanstalk at City Varities
29th November 2024 to 12th January 2025
A very different format to the traditional Christmas pantomime, Rock ‘n’ Roll Pantos mix traditional elements of audience participation and corny gags with a jukebox full of classic rock anthems and chart-toppers, all performed live on stage by an ultra-talented cast of actor-musicians.
Sleeping Beauty at Carriageworks Leeds
21st November 2025 to 4th January 2026
This Christmas, the spellbinding story of Sleeping Beauty bursts onto the Carriageworks Theatre stage in a spectacular pantomime packed with magic, music, and mayhem!
The Snow Queen at East Riding Theatre
4th to 27th December 2025
Join Gerda in her adventures as she crosses Scandinavia, wrestling with bandits and befriending a reindeer. Will she be able to summon the strength and love within herself to rescue Kai and to melt the ice that grips his heart?
A Christmas Carol on KWVR
4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th,and 19th December 2025
This production combines the beautiful surroundings and experience of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway with prestige theatre, including some of the nation’s most highly trained performers and an acclaimed and award-winning production team.
Pinocchio at Helmsley Arts Centre
7th to 15th December 2024
Join the 1812 Theatre company at Helmsley Arts Centre for the ever popular Panto! A traditional tale, told in our own fun, silly and racous way! A pantomime with no strings attached.
Snow White at Lyeceum Sheffield
6th December 2024 to 5th January 2025
As always, the #LyceumPanto promises to be top-quality family entertainment packed with laugh-out-loud thrills, stunning costumes, lavish sets, fabulous music and all your favourite jokes.
Goldilocks and Three Bears at Hull New Theatre
11th to 31st December 2024
This festive extravaganza is packed with riotous comedy, extraordinary special effects, hair-raising stunts and international circus acts! Featuring Brendan Cole, Star of Strictly Come Dancing.
Beauty and the Beast at Carriageworks Theatre
22nd November 2024 to 5th January 2025
Join bookworm Belle and a whole host of colourful characters on a journey to discover that true beauty is more than just skin-deep. With plenty of audience participation and huge helpings of laughter, spectacular scenery, captivating costumes and enchanting special effects, Beauty & the Beast is the traditional family pantomime that will leave you spellbound!
Dick Whittington at Lawrence Batley Theatre
2nd to 31st December 2024
This magical Christmas theatre show has a hiss-terical script and toe-tapping mew-sical numbers. Be blown away by dazzling costumes and spellbinding effects. Come join Dick and his cat for this rags to riches adventure!
Cinderella at Wakefield Theatre Royal
26th November 2024 to 5th January 2025
Featuring the glittering sets, gorgeous costumes, and glorious music you have come to know and love in Wakefield, not to mention gags a plenty to make you laugh your glass slippers off.
Mother Goose at Joseph Rowntree Theatre
7th, 8th, 10th to 14th December 2024
It’s market day and Mother Goose needs to make rent before the ever nasty Demon Darkheart evicts the Goose family. Meantime Jack’s exciting new addition to the farm - Priscilla the Goose - has stopped production in Jill’s hen house. Comedy, song and dance in this very silly rollicking romp of a family pantomime.
Beauty and the Beast - Harrogate Theatre
27th November 2024 to 19th January 2025
When an arrogant Prince is cursed to live as a Beast in an enchanted castle, his only hope is to find true love…. Packed with sparkle and festive fun, Harrogate Theatre’s magical family pantomime is a seasonal spectacular and we can’t wait to see you there!
Jack and the Beanstalk at Bridlington Spa
17th December 2024 to 5th January 2025
With Dame Dolly and Daisy the Cow, Silly Simon and King Crumble adding plenty of comedy chaos and calamities along the way, join our hero on the most magical adventure as he climbs the beanstalk to Cloud Land!
Sleeping Beauty - Scarborough Spa
6th December 2025 to 1st January 2026
This years’ Pantomime at the Scarborough Spa is guaranteed to be a magical production, as Beauty & The Beast is coming to Spa Theatre. Back by popular demand, Anne "The Governess" Hegerty from ITV's 'The Chase' is to co-headline the cast in this spectacular production, playing the role of Fairy Rose.
Peter Pan at Victoria Theatre, Halifax
14th December 2024 to 5th January 2025
Peter Pan will be packed full of all the ingredients necessary to make The Victoria Theatre’s panto the best panto in Calderdale – lots of hilarious slapstick comedy, stunning scenery and costumes, magical musical numbers and a plenty of audience interaction.
The Lost Present - A Christmas Adventure at Carriage Works
Theatre14th to 31st December 2024
Written especially for children and brought to life using handmade puppets, original music and delightful storytelling, The Lost Present is an enchanting tale about true friendship. It really is the perfect gift for Christmas.