Sleeping Beauty (Pantomime)

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Sunderland Empire

Fri 12 Dec 2025 - Sun 4 Jan 2026

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Pantomime

This show has an interval

A wonderfully wicked panto comes to Sunderland Empire for Christmas 2025!

Sunderland Empire

Fri 12 Dec 2025 - Sun 4 Jan 2026

High St West, Sunderland, SR1 3EX, UK

This show has an interval

Please check calendar for full performance information.

For group bookings of 10 or more:

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Or call 020 7206 1174

BBC’s Call the Midwife star Laura Main is set to sprinkle some festive magic to this year’s pantomime spectacular, Sleeping Beauty, as the spellbinding Fairy Snowfall. Best known for her long-running role as Sister Bernadette in BBC’s Call the Midwife, Laura has also starred in The Mill, Murder City, Father Brown, as well as performing right here at Sunderland Empire in 2018 as Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical.

Laura joins Wearside panto favourites, the fabulous Miss Rory (Boulevard) as Rorina the Cleaner and hilarious funny man Tom Whalley as the side-splitting Vesta the Jester in the North East’s canniest panto!

A full of beans big budget 3D bonanza with stunning staging and a fabulous cast.

- The Chronicle (Jack and the Beanstalk 2024)

Camp, clever, and completely joyous – A festive treat that’s fee-fi-fo-fabulous!

- BBC Radio Newcastle (Jack and the Beanstalk 2024)

A full of beans big budget 3D bonanza with stunning staging and a fabulous cast.

- The Chronicle (Jack and the Beanstalk 2024)

Camp, clever, and completely joyous – A festive treat that’s fee-fi-fo-fabulous!

- BBC Radio Newcastle (Jack and the Beanstalk 2024)

A beautiful Princess is cursed by the evil Carabosse on the eve of her 18th birthday party and can only be awoken by true love's kiss. Can the Good Fairy’s magical spell break the curse? Will she find her true love and live happily ever after?

Don’t get caught napping – book now and join us for another enchanting adventure for all the family.

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Dec
12
Fri
Opening Night
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Cast and Creatives

Rorina the Cleaner

Miss Rory

Vesta the Jester

Tom Whalley

Fairy Snowfall

Laura Main

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Sunderland Empire

High St West, Sunderland, SR1 3EX, UK

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The Box Office is open for 90 minutes prior to the performance commencing. See 'What's On' section for performance times

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Bar - Pre-show & interval drinks and snacks

Private Hospitality - Spaces available to hire

Membership Benefits - 25% off pre-show drinks (30mins prior)

Vesta Tilley laid the foundation stone of what is now the Sunderland Empire on 29 September 1906 and took to the stage on 1 July 1907 to officially declare the theatre open. Masterminded by two of the contemporary heads of British theatre, Edward Moss and Oswald Stoll, the Sunderland Empire Theatre has undergone many changes since it opened but remains the North East’s premier entertainment venue.

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Sunderland Empire

Fri 12 Dec 2025 - Sun 4 Jan 2026

High St West, Sunderland, SR1 3EX, UK

This show has an interval

Please check calendar for full performance information.

For group bookings of 10 or more:

Submit a request online

Or call 020 7206 1174

Join ATG+, the UK's best live entertainment membership to enjoy these benefits and much more across 35+ venues:

Priority booking and ringfenced seats

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Flexible tickets

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