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Do Not Play This Piano Written and Performed by Will Pickvance

Do Not Play This Piano Written and Performed by Will Pickvance

Live Performance. Gideon: a Play With Music

Local playwright Jane Upton on her brand new play (the) woman

Written by Nottingham’s own Jane Upton and shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize, (the) Woman is coming to Nottingham Playhouse this month. Following a woman struggling to balance her potential as a playwright with her responsibilities as a mother, it tackles hard truths about motherhood and conflicting identities. Jane was able to take the time out of her day to talk to us at LeftLion, having raced back from picking up arts and craft supplies for her children. But, as Jane herself puts it: “Sums it up, doesn’t it?”

A new play shines a light on the first pioneer of film-length animation and it is not Disney!

Lakeside Arts hosts this intriguing and inspiring play about Lotte Reiniger...

Review: Girls and Boys at Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham's own Aisling Loftus shines in this one-woman show that takes the lid off romance and shows the darkness lurking underneath...

Notts actress Aisling Loftus talks about her one-woman play Girls and Boys currently at Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham’s own Aisling Loftus comes to Nottingham Playhouse with one-woman play Girls and Boys, an award-winning depiction of how love can go badly wrong. She shares her journey with LeftLion…

Creative Café With Novelist, Playwright and Poet Polis Loizou

Puppets, songs, dances, jokes, not to mention a duckling on a quest for self-discovery

The Ugly Duckling

Thrills, spills, and non-stop jokes at the Playhouse panto

The much-beloved Nottingham Playhouse pantomime reaches new heights this year with a giant of a show. Yes, it's Jack and the Beanstalk... 

London Calling Play The Clash

Jack and the Beanstalk

Review: A Christmas Carol at Nottingham Playhouse

A proper Christmas classic, performed as a one man show by Guy Masterson at Nottingham Playhouse...

Man Child plays Herbie Hancock

Play It Again & Ersatz Natterjack at Nottingham Comedy Festival

Peggy’s House Band Ft Alan Barnes Plays Charlie Parker [jazz]

Enter Player 2 & Mockbusters at Nottingham Comedy Festival

Smash Night at Nottingham Comedy Festival

A Raisin In the Sun - Nottingham Playhouse

Gig review: Soft Play and Panic Shack at Rock City

For anyone feeling an impending monotony as the nights creep in, I highly recommend booking yourself a loud, chaotic and crazed gig to look forward to. The mighty Soft Play, supported by Panic Shack at Rock City this week, was just the antidote, shaking the crowd out of a midweek malaise..

Live Review: An Evening Without Kate Bush at Nottingham Playhouse

A night of beating around The Bush, suitable for both Fish People and casual observers alike...

Theatre review: Maisie Adam: Appraisal at Nottingham Playhouse

Swedish interrogations, accidentally looking like Rod Stewart and snogging a barista from Rotherham... Maisie Adam appeared at Nottingham Playhouse this week.

Soft Play

Theatre Review: GNAW at the Nottingham Playhouse

A play that's not a photocopy: we drop in on the bright & bizarre new show from performer Daniel McVey...