Christmas Panto!

Sunderland Empire plays host to 2025's pantomime season with a sparkling production of Sleeping Beauty, which will certainly wake you from your slumber! Starring the dazzling drag artist Miss Rory as Rorina The Cleaner and Tom Whalley as Vesta The Jester, this Christmas extravaganza is filled to the brim with music, dazzling costumes, oodles of humour and of course, audience participation! Fall in love with panto all over again this festive season....

Arguably one of the most-well known fairytales of all time, the tale of a young princess doomed to sleep for a hundred years has seen many incarnations, including a Disney movie (and more recently a second, focusing on the witch), and has remained a pantomime stable for decades.