Panto Special 2024

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Robin Hood at the London Palladium – review round-up

Review Round-Ups by Fergus Morgan

Lyn Gardner’s reasons to be cheerful

Opinion by Lyn Gardner

‘Back to business’: panto producers report bumper post-lockdown sales

News by Georgia Luckhurst

Opinion

Richard Jordan’s Big Christmas Theatre Quiz 2024

by Richard Jordan

One more reason to be cheerful this year

by Alistair Smith

Reminiscing over the theatre we saw in our youth is more than just nostalgia

by Howard Sherman

There’s a theatre sinkhole in the north and the sector’s turning its back on it

by Amanda Parker

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Robin Hood at the London Palladium – review round-up

Review Round-Ups by Fergus Morgan

Lyn Gardner’s reasons to be cheerful

Opinion by Lyn Gardner

‘Back to business’: panto producers report bumper post-lockdown sales

News by Georgia Luckhurst

Show reports 2024: the year’s funniest onstage (and offstage) mishaps

What winning at The Stage Awards did for us: revisiting the class of 2024

The Stage Awards 2025 shortlist: Producer of the Year

The Stage Awards 2025 shortlist: Theatre of the Year

The Stage Awards 2025 shortlist: Community Award

The Stage Awards 2025 shortlist: International Award

The Stage's Top 50 shows of 2024

Top 50 shows of 2024: Around the UK

Top 10 UK pantomimes to see this Christmas

Show reports 2024: the year’s funniest onstage (and offstage) mishaps

Top 50 shows of 2024: Opera and Dance

Politicians call on culture, media and sport workers to share their challenges

The cross-party Culture, Media and Sport Committee is seeking submissions to its rolling State of Play inquiry

Who has topped The Stage 100 2024? Last year, former culture secretary Nadine Dorries nabbed the spot, and before that, the list includes Ian McKellen, Vicky Featherstone and Sonia Friedman. But who got the top spot in 2024?

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The Stage's Top 50 shows of 2024

Our critics’ picks of the UK’s top 50 shows from the past 12 months

Peter Pan review

Reviews by Anya RyanGordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage

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Cartoons by Harry Venning

“Script has holes in it”

Jack and the Beanstalk review

Reviews by Paul ValeCliffs Pavilion, Southend

“Reaffirms your faith in humanity”

Pan review

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Opinion

Richard Jordan’s Big Christmas Theatre Quiz 2024

by Richard Jordan

One more reason to be cheerful this year

by Alistair Smith

Reminiscing over the theatre we saw in our youth is more than just nostalgia

by Howard Sherman

There’s a theatre sinkhole in the north and the sector’s turning its back on it

by Amanda Parker

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Peter Pan review

Reviews by Anya RyanGordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage

Hamlet, December 19, 2024

Cartoons by Harry Venning

“Script has holes in it”

Jack and the Beanstalk review

Reviews by Paul ValeCliffs Pavilion, Southend

“Reaffirms your faith in humanity”

Pan review

Reviews by Oliver JonesChickenshed, London

The Stage's Top 50 shows of 2024

Top 50 shows of 2024: London

The Stage Awards 2025: shortlist in full

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review

Top 50 shows of 2024: Around the UK

The Stage Awards 2025: all four nations represented in UK-spanning shortlist

You Me Bum Bum Train review

David Tennant departs stage following Macbeth audience disruption

The Tempest review

Four nations, 20 shows: what did I learn about the state of UK theatre today?

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