Beauty and the Beast on Ice plays Slough Ice Arena from 17 to 20 December, adults £17.50, children £14. The Curve has Twinkle Twinkle from 21 to 23 December.

Slough’s pantomime this Christmas is on ice: Beauty and the Beast, Panto on Ice, at Slough Ice Arena on Montem Lane from Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 December 2026. Adult tickets are £17.50 and children’s £14. The Curve then has its show for under-sixes, Twinkle Twinkle, six performances across Monday 21, Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 December, at 11am and 1pm each day, tickets £10 or £8 for under-16s.

Updated 4 October: the Ice Arena’s panto on ice added, with its booking prices. The Curve’s four-for-£28 early bird ended on 20 September.

For a full-scale theatre panto with a dame and a beanstalk, the nearest is Windsor, and that one opens a month earlier.

Beauty and the Beast on Ice, Slough Ice Arena

Everyone Active, which runs the Ice Arena, announced the show in June as a family pantomime on skates, with comedy, audience participation and “all the traditional panto fun”, running 17 to 20 December 2026. (Everyone Active, Beauty and the Beast: Panto on Ice)

The arena’s booking page lists these tickets:

  • Adult (16 and over): £17.50
  • Child (under 16): £14
  • Family of four (two adults, two children): £58
  • Family of five (two adults, three children): £70
  • Premium: £27.50, with front row seats, prosecco on arrival and mocktails for under-18s
  • Restricted viewing: £10
  • Wheelchair and companion: £14
  • Under-3s on a lap: free

(Slough Ice Arena tickets)

Performance times are not published on either page: the booking system shows them only once you pick tickets and a date. The arena is at Montem Lane, Slough SL1 2QG, and takes calls on 01753 969710. Its accessibility details list a raised viewing platform with a wheelchair lift. (Everyone Active, Slough Ice Arena)

Twinkle Twinkle at the Curve: everything confirmed

The show is by The Last Baguette, the company that brought A Winter’s Tail to Norden Farm in 2025. It is billed as a nocturnal journey for early years, based on Jane Taylor’s 1806 poem The Star, with original music, puppetry and a cast of woodland animals gathering to mark the solstice.

  • Dates and times: Monday 21, Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 December 2026, 11am and 1pm on each of the three days. Six performances in total.
  • Running time: 50 minutes, including a 10 minute stay and play session at the end.
  • Age guidance: 2 to 6 years, with older and younger siblings welcome.
  • Tickets: £10 standard, £8 under-16s, £32 for a Family and Friends ticket covering four people.
  • Early bird: the same four-person ticket was £28 until Sunday 20 September; that offer has ended.
  • Booking fee: £1.90 on every transaction.
  • Venue: the Curve, William Street, Slough SL1 1XY.

All of that is from the venue’s own ticketing system, which is live and selling now. (Curve Venue)

Two practical points the listing does not spell out. There is no evening performance, so this is a daytime outing on the first three days of the school holidays. And no relaxed or signed performance is flagged for the Slough run, where the Norden Farm run of the same show is also listed without one.

The same show runs longer at Norden Farm, and costs more

The Curve is managed by Storyden Ltd, whose registered office is at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts in Maidenhead, and the two venues share a ticketing system. Twinkle Twinkle is the Norden Farm Christmas production as well, in its Studio, running Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 December and Tuesday 29 December to Saturday 2 January.

Prices there are higher: £14, £12 for under-16s, £48 for four. Children over six months need their own ticket. If the Slough dates do not suit, that is the same production over a much longer run, a short drive west along the A4. (Curve Venue)

The nearest full pantomime: Theatre Royal Windsor

Jack and the Beanstalk runs at the Theatre Royal Windsor from Friday 20 November 2026 to Sunday 10 January 2027, tickets from £19.50, with Kevin Cruise and Steven Blakeley returning, Hilary O’Neil as the Fairy, Anton Stephans as Fleshcreep, Jay Worley as Jack, Jeffrey Harmer as the King and Abi Lily Clarke as Jill. Running time is still marked TBC. The production carries haze and flashing lights. (Theatre Royal Windsor)

Family tickets are £85.50 for three including one child and £110 for four including two children, and schools and youth groups pay £15.50 a head with an eleventh ticket free on ten. Those three prices can only be booked by phone, on 01753 853888. (Theatre Royal Windsor, pricing details)

The shuttle train from Slough to Windsor and Eton Central puts you a few minutes’ walk from the Theatre Royal, which matters on an evening when Windsor’s car parks fill.

What else the Curve has in December

The Curve’s own programme for the festive weeks is thin beyond the Christmas show. Slough On The Mic, its spoken word night, has a date on Friday 18 December, and there is a further one on 20 November. (Curve Venue)

For the rest of what is open over the holidays, including the leisure centres and the parks, see things to do in Slough.

Getting there and parking

The Curve is on William Street, a short walk from Slough station and from the High Street. The Ice Arena on Montem Lane, SL1 2QG, has its own council car park. Council car park tariffs, including the Ice Arena’s, the on-street bands and the Blue Badge concession are set out on our parking in Slough page. Check Slough roadworks and travel for anything on the route in.

Still to be confirmed

  • Performance times for Beauty and the Beast on Ice, which the arena has not put on any public page.

  • Access performances for the Slough run of Twinkle Twinkle. None are flagged as at 5 September, at either venue. Worth checking again in November.

  • Theatre Royal Windsor’s running time, still TBC on its own page.
  • Any additional Curve family programming over the holidays, which in past years has been announced through the autumn.