Snow White runs 79 performances at the Gordon Craig from Friday 27 November. Tickets from £20 plus a £3.50 fee, and here is every date the venue hides.
Stevenage’s pantomime for 2026 is Snow White at the Gordon Craig Theatre, opening on Friday 27 November 2026 and closing on Sunday 24 January 2027. That is 79 performances across nine weeks, which makes it one of the longest panto runs of any theatre this size in the country.
Tickets are from £20, and the theatre adds a £3.50 transaction fee per booking, not per ticket. (Gordon Craig Theatre, Snow White)
Updated 6 October 2026: three performances already show no seats left to book, and most December weekend shows are down to the last few rows. Seat counts for every performance below.
Gordon Craig panto 2026: what is already selling out
We read the seat count for all 79 performances of Snow White from the theatre’s own box office system on 6 October 2026, seven weeks before opening. The auditorium holds 507. Across the run, 22,289 of the 40,053 seats were no longer available to book, so a little over half the panto has gone already.
No seats left online:
- Sunday 6 December, 1pm
- Thursday 24 December, 11am
- Thursday 24 December, 3pm
Fewer than 20 seats left:
| Performance | Seats left |
|---|---|
| Fri 27 Nov, 7pm (opening night) | 6 |
| Sun 29 Nov, 1pm | 13 |
| Sat 5 Dec, 4pm | 17 |
| Sun 6 Dec, 5pm | 12 |
| Sat 12 Dec, 12pm | 12 |
| Sat 12 Dec, 4pm | 8 |
| Sun 13 Dec, 1pm | 10 |
| Sat 19 Dec, 12pm | 12 |
| Sat 19 Dec, 4pm | 6 |
| Sun 20 Dec, 1pm | 4 |
| Sun 20 Dec, 5pm | 10 |
| Wed 23 Dec, 6pm | 12 |
| Sat 26 Dec, 2pm | 4 |
Where the seats still are. January is wide open: on 6 October every weekday performance from Wednesday 13 to Friday 22 January had between 395 and 480 seats free, except Friday 22 January at 7.45pm (222), and the last weekend, 23 and 24 January, had 281 to 440. If it has to be December, the best-stocked performances were Wednesday 9 December at 4.30pm (351 left), Monday 28 December at 7.30pm (343), Wednesday 30 December at 6pm (407) and New Year’s Eve at 11am (365). The relaxed and BSL signed performance on Wednesday 16 December had 422 seats left.
A seat count is a snapshot, and some unavailable seats may be held back by the theatre rather than sold, so a show at zero online can still be worth a call to the box office on 01438 363200.
The cast the theatre has named
From the theatre’s own listing:
- Aidan O’Neill as Herbie the Huntsman, described as a “Stevenage favourite” returning
- Mark Siney as Dame Dolly
- Carli Norris as Narcissia, the wicked queen
The theatre credits the production to “the team behind last year’s award-nominated Dick Whittington and his Cat”. No further casting has been announced.
Every date and time
The Gordon Craig’s own page will not show you this. It loads the schedule with JavaScript and prints “Loading show times” to anyone whose browser does not run it, which includes most search results and every screen reader that gives up early. We pulled the full run from the box office system on 5 September 2026. Every performance below was on sale at that point.
| Date | Performances |
|---|---|
| Fri 27 Nov | 7pm |
| Sat 28 Nov | 1pm, 5pm |
| Sun 29 Nov | 1pm, 5pm |
| Thu 3 Dec | 7pm |
| Sat 5 Dec | 12pm, 4pm, 7.30pm |
| Sun 6 Dec | 1pm, 5pm |
| Wed 9 Dec | 4.30pm |
| Thu 10 Dec | 7pm |
| Sat 12 Dec | 12pm, 4pm, 7.30pm |
| Sun 13 Dec | 1pm, 5pm |
| Wed 16 Dec | 6pm (relaxed and BSL signed) |
| Thu 17 Dec | 7pm |
| Sat 19 Dec | 12pm, 4pm, 7.30pm |
| Sun 20 Dec | 1pm, 5pm |
| Mon 21 Dec | 2pm, 6pm |
| Tue 22 Dec | 2pm, 6pm |
| Wed 23 Dec | 2pm, 6pm |
| Thu 24 Dec | 11am, 3pm |
| Sat 26 Dec | 2pm, 6pm |
| Sun 27 Dec | 1pm, 5pm |
| Mon 28 Dec | 12pm, 4pm, 7.30pm |
| Tue 29 Dec | 2pm (BSL signed), 6pm |
| Wed 30 Dec | 2pm, 6pm |
| Thu 31 Dec | 11am, 3pm |
| Sat 2 Jan | 12pm, 4pm, 7.30pm |
| Sun 3 Jan | 1pm, 5pm |
| Wed 6 Jan | 7pm |
| Thu 7 Jan | 7pm |
| Fri 8 Jan | 4.30pm, 7.45pm |
| Sat 9 Jan | 12pm, 4pm, 7.30pm |
| Sun 10 Jan | 1pm, 5pm |
| Wed 13 Jan | 7pm |
| Thu 14 Jan | 4.30pm, 7.45pm |
| Fri 15 Jan | 4.30pm, 7.45pm |
| Sat 16 Jan | 12pm, 4pm, 7.30pm |
| Sun 17 Jan | 1pm, 5pm |
| Wed 20 Jan | 7pm |
| Thu 21 Jan | 2.30pm, 7pm |
| Fri 22 Jan | 4.30pm, 7.45pm |
| Sat 23 Jan | 12pm, 4pm |
| Sun 24 Jan | 1pm, 5pm |
There is no performance on Christmas Day or on New Year’s Day. There is also nothing on Mondays or Tuesdays until the week before Christmas, and nothing on Fridays until 8 January, so the “quiet” weekday slots people hunt for do not exist in December.
The two access performances
The theatre lists both, and the schedule backs them up. Each is the only performance on its day, which is the useful part: you are not choosing between a signed show and a full house on the same afternoon.
- Wednesday 16 December, 6pm: relaxed and BSL signed
- Tuesday 29 December, 2pm: BSL signed
The theatre says the BSL interpreter stands downstage left, which is the right-hand side of the stage as you look at it from the audience, so seats on that side give the clearest view of the signing.
Booking, and the fee to watch for
- From £20. The theatre publishes a “from” price only, and does not publish its price bands online
- £3.50 transaction fee per booking. It is charged once per order, not per seat, so one order for six is cheaper than six orders for one
- Book through the venue at everyonetheatres.com
A note on the name if you are searching. The Gordon Craig is run by Everyone Theatres, part of Everyone Active, not by Stevenage Leisure Ltd as it once was, and the old gordon-craig.co.uk address now redirects to everyonetheatres.com. Anything still telling you to book at the old domain is out of date.
Getting there
The Gordon Craig sits in the town centre on Lytton Way, next to the bus interchange and about five minutes’ walk from Stevenage station. Evening performances finishing at 9.30pm or later mean the town centre car parks: rates, locations and the new pay-by-plate system are on our parking in Stevenage page. If you are driving in from out of town between now and roughly March, check the A1(M) 40mph scheme between junctions 7 and 8 first.
Sources
- Gordon Craig Theatre, Snow White, Everyone Theatres
- Everyone Theatres box office system, full performance schedule for Snow White, retrieved 5 September 2026, and seat availability for every performance, retrieved 6 October 2026
- Everyone Theatres, Gordon Craig Theatre what’s on
Frequently asked questions
What is the Gordon Craig panto for 2026?
Snow White, with Aidan O’Neill as Herbie the Huntsman, Mark Siney as Dame Dolly and Carli Norris as the wicked queen Narcissia. It runs from Friday 27 November 2026 to Sunday 24 January 2027.
Is the Stevenage panto sold out?
Not overall. On 6 October 2026 about 44% of seats were still available, but the Sunday 6 December 1pm show and both Christmas Eve performances had none left online, and most December weekend shows had fewer than 20.
How much are Gordon Craig panto tickets?
From £20, plus a non-refundable £3.50 transaction fee charged once per booking. The theatre does not publish its full price bands online.
When are the relaxed and signed performances?
Wednesday 16 December at 6pm is relaxed and BSL signed. Tuesday 29 December at 2pm is BSL signed.
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