Nottingham Creative Community News

Passagers by Circus Legends The 7 Fingers Comes to the Royal Concert Hall

The Canadian circus group will visit Nottingham on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 October...

Notts Improv Duo The Clones Return to the Stage

Lloydie James Lloyd and Liam Webber will take over Fishergate Point as part of this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Yes, you read that right...

Metronome to Host The Television Workshop's Macbeth, Director Nic Harvey's Swansong Production

06 August 21

With a modern twist on a centuries-old tale, The Television Workshop are providing a fittingly fascinating send-off for director Nic Harvey...

Theatre Review: Father Brown

30 June 21

A Very Unholy Triangle

Nottingham Playhouse's Adam Penford on This Year's Live and Online Pantomime, Cinderella

14 December 20

Streaming Theatre Preview: The Black Veil

21 July 20

The Classic Thriller Season is back and planning to creep directly into your home

Theatre Review: Emilia

16 March 20

Next up in the Television Workshop's play season is a piece about the patriarchy, featuring Shakepeare himself and focusing on his much fabled 'dark play'...

The Diaries of Nottingham WWI Soldier Are Being Made into an Exhibition and Play

15 March 20

For years they lay hidden away in the attic of a house in New Zealand. But now, the missing World War One diaries of Nottingham soldier Billy Richards have been discovered, and are being used as the basis for a new exhibition and play...

Theatre Review: The Taming of the Shrew

04 March 20

The RSC turn the gender tables in a tale from the Matriarchy

Review: On the Shore of the Wide World

04 March 20

The new season of Nottingham's famous acting school, the Television Workshop, kicked off with a play about family life...

Comedian Mark Thomas is Bringing His History-Themed Show to Lakeside Arts in April

01 March 20

Comedian, presenter, political satirist, journalist, radio personality, libertarian anarchist... There aren’t many things that Mark Thomas can’t turn his hand to. With his brand new history-themed show, 50 Things About Us, heading to Lakeside Arts for back-to-back shows in April, we caught up with the stand up legend to get his thoughts on Nottingham, touring and the British Empire...

Theatre Review: Moonlight and Magnolias

29 February 20

We checked out Moonlight and Magnolias, the whirlwind story of three men locked in a room for five days writing the script for Gone with the Wind, at Nottingham Playhouse...

Theatre Review: Measure for Measure

29 February 20

Our very own Nottingham has had a visit from the big smoke: The Royal Shakespeare Company have graced us with their thespian tendencies for a few days at the Theatre Royal. We went to see their production of Measure for Measure to see what all this men in tights malarky was about…

Theatre Review: A Monster Calls

19 February 20

Often painful and heart rending but equally beautiful

Interview: TV funnyman Spencer Jones is coming to Notts

03 February 20

Meet Spencer Jones; Twice nominated in the Edinburgh Festival comedy awards, a regular in BBC2's Upstart Crow and coming to Notts this month for an appearance at Just The Tonic...

Review: Daliso Chaponda - Blah Blah Blacklist at Nottingham Playhouse

18 January 20

Malawi's Got Talent: Come for the Madonna gag, stay for the awkward questions...

Notts’ Panto Legends Kenneth Alan Taylor and John Elkington on Bringing Sleeping Beauty to the Playhouse This Christmas

05 December 19

Theatre Review: Cinderella

04 December 19

An audio-visual feast, packed with all the choicest panto ingredients

Stage Review: Suzi Ruffell at The Glee Club

25 November 19

Our Caroline popped along to see Suzi in full, glorious stand-up swing...

Theatre Review: Sleeping Beauty at Nottingham Playhouse

25 November 19

Kenneth Alan-Taylor’s 37th Pantomime at Nottingham Playhouse is a glitter-filled, magical celebration of the traditions of panto that will delight audiences of all ages.