They're behind you! Rip-roaring pantos from the past – in pictures
From Ian McKellen’s pastel Widow Twankey to Dame Edna in Dick Whittington, the Guardian’s stage photographer has captured some of the boldest and brightest pantos
March 2020
Letters: Roy Hudd obituary
Roy Hudd: a charming star immediately embraced by audiences
Roy Hudd obituary
TV actor and radio comedian Roy Hudd dies aged 83
December 2018
June Whitfield: 70 years a comedy giant
Whitfield’s wonderful nature led her to roles as matriarchs, nuns and even God. But let loose, she always shone – and she held her own with everyone from Tony Hancock to Jennifer Saunders
December 2016
Best culture 2016
Our best portraits of 2016 – in pictures
Theatre blog
Plan your week’s theatre: top tickets
Mother Goose review – there is nothing like a dame played by Roy Hudd
Life on a plate
Roy Hudd: ‘I saw Dick Whittington and spent a fortnight on all fours impersonating a cat’
September 2016
Mother Goose at Wilton's Music Hall – in pictures
Roy Hudd wrote the panto for the 2016-17 season and his wife, Debbie Flitcroft will direct
December 2015
Dick Whittington and His Cat review – deliciously traditional cockney panto
Roy Hudd plays his first pantomime dame – amid a medley of time-tested jokes and cockney standards – in this witty, warm, unadulterated delight
This week's new theatre
This week’s new theatre
Dick Whittington & His Cat | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Dr Seuss’s The Lorax | Eloise And The Curse Of The Golden Whisk | The Haunting Of Hill House | Snow White And Rose Red
Christmas culture 2015
Five of the best pantomimes for Christmas 2015
Can you go wrong with Aladdin, Dick Whittington and Snow White? Oh no you can’t…
June 2014
Sam Kelly obituary
Versatile stage and screen character actor loved for his roles in popular TV comedies
April 2014
Other lives
Morris Aza obituary
Other lives: Theatrical agent who represented many British stars, including Roy Hudd and Betty Driver
October 2013
Graham Stark obituary
Prolific comedy actor who worked with Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan and Hattie Jacques
April 2013
Patrick Garland obituary
Director and writer celebrated for his work at Chichester Festival theatre and the BBC
September 2012
The Guardian Books podcast
Guardian Books podcast: JB Priestley and Javier Marías
As JB Priestley's classic, English Journey, is republished, the comedian Roy Hudd and Priestley's son Tom celebrate his legacy, while the Spanish novelist Javier Marías tells us what it's like to become a classic
September 2011
Other lives
Frank Wagland obituary
Other lives: One of Frank Wagland's most successful shows at the Unity theatre in London, They Made Me a Present of Mornington Crescent, had Roy Hudd offering to appear in it
