Natalie O'Donoghue

Join us as we celebrate the festive season with a mix of Carols and Christmas party classics.

Scottish Ballet’s The Nutcracker brings light and joy to winter for audiences of all ages. Enjoy a visual feast as we take you and your family on a fantastical adventure. With live music played by the Scottish Ballet Orchestra, this ever-popular ballet is the perfect festive treat.

All Pinocchio has ever wanted is to be a real boy. But hold on…if he wants things, surely that means he has thoughts and feelings. And if he has thoughts and feelings, then doesn’t that mean he has a brain and a heart? And if he has all that, doesn’t that make him a real boy already?

Life in Cludgie on the Cobbles is quiet and peaceful. Belle passes her days helping her mother, Professor Porridge and their neighbours Dame Dolly Drumchapel and her son, Hector.

p his castle in the clouds, Giant Greedyguts plans to destroy the pantomime kingdom of Inverstrone if Dame Trot doesn’t give him her precious cow, Moomoo, for his lunch. This is just the adventure that Dame Trot’s daredevil daughter, Jack, has been waiting for.

Rumpelstiltskin has never fitted in. Is he a Troll? A Goblin? A Stinky Bog Monster? No one really knows! But he’s excited to head out into the world and start making friends.

The Sound of Music is the Pitlochry Festival Theatre's winter show and the final show to be directed by Elizabeth Newman in her role as artistic director of the theatre. 

The wait is over, Sleeping Beauty is now on! Bring your family and friends to experience the magic, laughter and heart-warming charm of this year’s must-see panto. With Christmas just around the corner, there’s no better way to get into the festive spirit!

With an original script written by Fraser Boyle and Ken Alexander, Ayr Gaiety pantomime isn't one of the flashy 'copy and paste' pantomimes that are staged up and down the country. The Gaiety is also working with the support of Solar Bear and is the first hearing-led Scottish panto to feature D/deaf actors.

Get ready to roar with laughter and cheer our hero Jack on his magical journey to Cloudland as he battles to save his best friend Daisy the Cow! As always there’ll be spectacular scenery, dazzling costumes, amazing special effects and lots of audience participation.

Oh dear. Things aren’t going too well down in Stirling Stella. The Baroness Fantasia De’Wharff needs a nanny to control her seven unruly step-children particularly, the rather wild Snow White. Step forward Nanny Maria Shut-Yon-Trapp who wants to fill the pantosphere with her own Sound Of Music.

This Christmas, PACE Theatre Company is delighted to announce its annual pantomime will be a new version of Aladdin; a re-imagining of the classic tale with a distinctly Scottish flavour. A seasonal treat for adults and children alike, Aladdin will run from Wednesday 27 November 24 – Sunday 5 January 25 in the newly refurbished Paisley Arts Centre.

Join us again at Oran Mor for another hysterical, subversive Christmas panto full of laughs, boos and, of course, a pie! The Oran Mor winter panto takes the timeslot of A Play, A Pie and A Pint from late November through to January.

It’s Christmas Eve and young Jim Hawkins works at North Edinburgh’s finest accommodation for reformed pirates and past-it privateers. Talk of cutlasses, ships and gold can be dangerous in such company. It’s not long before the story of their greatest voyage takes over… Jim, Ben Gunn and Lean Jean Silver are soon reliving their time hunting for treasure on the Hispaniola. Ahoy!

Packed with all of the traditional pantomime ingredients Edinburgh audiences expect, Cinderella features laugh-out-loud comedy, stunning scenery, beautiful costumes and plenty of boos and hisses.

Celebrate 60 years of panto at The King's with amazing special effects, stunning sets, beautiful costumes and barrel-loads of laughter, Peter Pan will take your whole family on a magical trip to Neverland like never before!

With a blast of magic from the mighty Stinkerbell, Peter Pan whisks West End Wendy away from the safety of her Byres Road residence to a place full of treachery, deceit and chippies that never close. Welcome to the rambunctious and radgey Riverland!

Christmas time in Glasgow is not so magical when you’re a cab driver dealing with drunken passengers, potholes and never-ending rain.

When fashionista Cruella de Vil plots to swipe all the Dalmatian puppies in town to create her fabulous new fur coat, there’s trouble ahead for Pongo and Perdi and their litter of adorable, tail-wagging young pups.

Dementia the Musical! is a new musical theatre production by Ron Coleman, Scottish poet and writer living with dementia, in collaboration with renowned director Magdalena Schamberger and one of Britain’s top Jazz musicians Sophie Bancroft as composer and musical director plus additional music by esteemed songwriter Andrew Eaton-Lewis.