How many people does St Helens Theatre Royal hold?

700
Theatre: Seating up to 700. Royale Room: Our function suite, suitable for a wide variety of events such as business conferences and jazz concerts.

How long is Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime St Helens?

about 90 minutes
The show runs at about 90 minutes of action, plus a 10 minute onscreen interval, which is about right if you allow for the various trappings of live theatre that usually involves frequent delays for the audience participation.

Who owns Theatre Royal St Helens?

Regal Entertainments
Regal Entertainments Mother-daughter team take ownership of St Helen’s Theatre. ST HELEN’S Theatre is under new ownership, being taken over by mother-daughter team Jane Joseph and Chantelle Nolan. The pair own Regal Entertainments, which has managed the day-to-day running of the Corporation Street venue for 22 years.

How old is Theatre Royal St Helens?

The Theatre Royal opened on the 20th of May 1901 and has been in business ever since, although the decline of Theatres all over the Country in the 1950s effected the Royal too.

What is a pantomime in theatre?

Pantomime is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is encouraged and expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.

How would you describe pantomime?

Pantomime is a popular theatrical treat for families during the Christmas holidays. The costumes are bright, the sets sparkle and the audience are encouraged to sing-a-long. But cries of “It’s behind you” and “Oh no he didn’t” might confuse newcomers to the genre.

What does pantomime mean in theater?

1 : the act of showing or explaining something through movements of the body and face instead of by talking. 2 : a show in which a story is told by using expressions on the face and movements of the body instead of words. pantomime. verb. pantomimed; pantomiming.