Theatre/Arts

This week sees the start of Panto season and the battle lines have been drawn between the big-name draws of Robert Lindsay (Peter Pan, Richmond); Paul Merton (Aladdin at Wimbledon) and Craig Revel Horwood as the wicked stepmother at Woking (Cinderella). If last year’s production is anything to go by, my money would be on Woking to come out on top but after seeing Craig’s dis-aster-erous- performance in Nativity Rocks it could be a close call!

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  This year's best pantomimes and plays

  Here's the best of the best more

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  Aladdin

  8 December - 6 January more

  New Wimbledon Theatre

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  Peter Pan

  8 December - 5 January more

  Richmond Theatre

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  Cinderella

  7 December - 6 January more

  Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

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  Simon Vail

  Dick Whittington, Windsor Theatre Royal

  5 STARS: 23rd November 2018 - 6th January 2019 more

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  Mark Turner

  Season's Greetings, Leatherhead Theatre

  20-24 Nov: Ayckbourn's Christmas satire lays a cynical eye on the family Christmas more

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  Things I Know To Be True, OSO Arts Centre

  21-24 Nov: "Andrew Bovell’s absorbing and powerful family chronicle is adroitly performed" more

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  Robert Day

  Rebus: Long Shadows, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

  20-24 Nov: An engaging, but sometimes plodding adaptation more