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A stage with 11 people on. They all have their hands up and are stood as if they have just completed a dance number. At the front, a man is dressed as a pea pod, with large sponge peas stuck in a row up his chest up to the top of his head. Around him are people wearing bright colours and smiling widely. To his right is a man who appears to be playing jack, wearing black boots and green trousers and a top with large white sleeves. The stage is lit in blue light.

Panto's 'brilliant' initiative sees record sales

Cast announced that more people attended Jack and the Beanstalk than any other show in its history.

South Yorkshire

Joan Plowright in period costume

Dame Joan Plowright: Acting star whose first love was theatre

One of the UK's finest stage actresses, she later appeared in films including Tea with Mussolini.

A group of people wearing pantomime costumes stood on stage.

'Panto season isn't over for us'

Broadstone Pantomime Productions partner with a local nursing home to keep the company going.

Abbeydale Picture House exterior. It is a fairly magnificent building. The main facade is on a corner, close to a road. Its exterior is decorated with white tiling. It has many windows with curved tops and tiles framing them. There is a taller "tower" section at the front of the building, with a glass dome at its top. It appears run down, and slightly dirty, but clearly was once an impressive building.

Brewery buys Grade II-listed cinema to restore

1920s arts venue closed in 2024 due to risk of collapse and spiralling renovation costs.

South Yorkshire

A teal and light yellow building has the white letter 'Strand' on it

Work begins on new look Strand Arts Centre

Work has begun on the £6.5m restoration of the Strand Arts Centre in east Belfast

Northern Ireland

Tom Hiddleston's signature dance move

Tom Hiddleston busts out signature dance move

Tom Hiddleston gives a demo of his signature move, which he calls 'just keep swimming'.

Shanay Holmes is smiling in a red Victorian dress and dancing next to an actor playing Artful Dodger

Oliver!: 'Nancy shows what women are capable of'

"Playing Nancy has really shown me who I am as a woman and what woman are capable of."

Michael Sheen

Sheen aims to make Welsh stories 'big and popular'

Michael Sheen says he wants to offer Welsh stories by Welsh people as he funds new theatre company.

Michael Sheen, who has long grey hair and a beard, smiles to camera while sitting in a theatre

Sheen to fund new national theatre for Wales

The actor says he is putting everything behind starting Welsh National Theatre.