Get in the festive spirit... it's panto time!

Chickenshed’s Christmas show is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which features a cast of hundreds. The production includes singing and integrated sign language. There will also be captioned and audio-described performances
and touch tours.
•28 November-12 January. From £9.  Tel: 020 8292 9222, www.
chickenshed.org.uk

Lisa Hammond (see page 25) will be starring in Beauty and the Beast at the Lyric Hammersmith in London.
The show is a new production from theatre company Told by an Idiot, which has used Jean Cocteau’s film La Belle et La Bête as the show’s inspiration.
•29 November-5 January. From £10. Tel: 08700 500 511, www.lyric.co.uk

Cinderella comes to London’s Old Vic theatre this Christmas in a new adaptation from Stephen Fry. Starring Pauline Collins and Sandi Toksvig, the show puts a modern slant on the classic tale.
•4 December-20 January. From £9. Tel: 0870 060 6628, www.oldvictheatre.com

Manchester’s Library Theatre is staging Tom’s Midnight Garden this Christmas. There will be two workshops for disabled people on 12 December and 10 January.
•1 December-12 January. From £8.25. Tel: 0161 236 7110, www.library
theatre.com
Half Moon’s latest show Icicle Bicycle tells the story of Spike and Bella, who follow their grandma’s footprints through the snow and enter a different world. With integrated sign language. Aimed at two to six-year-olds. The show will be at the Half Moon theatre in London.
•21-24 November, before touring to March 2008.
£4.50. Tel: 020 7709 8900, www.halfmoon.org.uk

Krazy Kat Theatre Company is celebrating its 25th birthday with a tour of Clownderella, which features a clown who loves telling fairy stories. The show, which is directed by sign-songstress Caroline Parker, includes colourful costumes, puppetry, opera and integrated sign language.
• Tel: 01273 692552, www.krazykattheatre.co.uk

Theatre company 3D is presenting The Wizard of Oz at Derby Dance. The show, adapted from the film’s screenplay, will be performed in sign language with an accompanying voiceover. From £4.
•11-13 December.
Tel: 01332 370911, www.derbydance.co.uk

Oily Cart’s children’s show If All the World Were Paper is touring to February 2008. The show imagines a world made entirely of paper. Aimed at two to five-year-olds. The show will be at the Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry.
•1 December- 5 January. From £7.50. Tel: 020 8672 6329, www.oilycart.org.uk