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Theatre Review: Police Cops at Nottingham Playhouse

It's true what they say. Cops and comedy do mix.

Gav Plays The Chess World Champion at Ludorati Cafe

We sent our Gav to Ludorati Cafe to play the world champion at chess. Yes, the chess. world. champion...

Nick Wood on The Underground Man at Nottingham Playhouse

"He's mainly known for being an eccentric who built loads of tunnels and a huge underground ballroom underneath Welbeck Abbey – but there was so much more to him"

Louise Orwin on A Girl and A Gun at Nottingham Playhouse

Louise Orwin is gunning for the cinema establishment

Nottingham Forest To Play Arsenal

Following the news of Forest landing a plum EFL Cup tie against Arsenal, we offer up two bob's worth

Who Is Playing At Y Not Festival 2016?

It may be across the border, but there's plenty of Notts folk on the line-up this year

Quiz: Notts County Players of the 2000s

How many former magpies players do you recognise from the days gone by?

Theatre Review: The James Plays

A gloriously enthralling three play back-to-back history binge

Review: Cloudcuckoolanders at the Playhouse

"Olwen Davies is superb as the unhinged but utterly adorable innocent; she’s like a hybrid of David Brent and a Bunny Boiler."

Quiz: Notts County FC Players From The 90s

How many of these ex-Magpies footballers can you recognise from their photos?

Quiz: Forest Players From The 90s

Here's one to test the visual memory of any thirty-something or above Forest fans

Contemporary Dance Review: Coal at Nottingham Playhouse

"Every man fell to the floor, and when Margaret Thatcher finally left the stage, she kicked the one on her side away, leaving everyone behind in collapse"

Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation

The most laughter I’ve ever heard at a Shakespeare comedy

Theatre Review: Kings at Nottingham Playhouse

A proper Notts play by a proper Notts writer. Nowt wrong wi' that, duck

Daniel Hoffman-Gill on Kings at Nottingham Playhouse

"It's set in Somerville House on Forest Road West, which is sheltered accommodation for men who are homeless or in difficult places in their life"

Theatre Review: Touretteshero's Backstage in Biscuitland at Nottingham Playhouse

"Joyful, open and ruddy hilarious. Confident in its simplicity and full of the vitality of life, it proves Tourette's is much less 'demonic possession', much more 'brain having a 24/7 creativity party'"

Playwright Kefi Chadwick on Any Means Necessary at Nottingham Playhouse

"It draws from stories about undercover police officers who had relationships with women while in their undercover personas... living with them for seven years, having children"

Cast at Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham Playhouse Conspiracy Season

Wellington Circus is getting taken over by the suspicious, with plays The Duchess of Malfi, 1984, Any Means Necessary and The Rubenstein Kiss

Interview: Darts Players Kyle Anderson and Aden Kirk

Football, cricket and ice hockey have all brought significant success to Nottingham over the years – but another sport that's increasingly putting our city on the map is darts. We met a couple of players based in the city who are starting to make a name for themselves in the world of arrows; Kyle Anderson, who has relocated here from his native Australia, and Aden Kirk, who is a 100% homegrown talent…

Flesh Season at Nottingham Playhouse

Flesh Season is coming to Nottingham Playhouse this month, but don’t be fooled by the title: the flesh is more symbolic than salacious. We talked to its curator, Bea Udeh, about diversity on the stage.

Interview: Kenneth Alan Taylor

Kenneth Alan Taylor has spent a lifetime playing panto dames but he’ll finally hang up his sequined frocks and beehive wigs after this Christmas. More than a man in a dress, he also writes and directs the Playhouse pantos he stars in. His career hasn’t been all fairy dust and glass slippers though, there’s been Coronation Street and ‘serious’ theatre too...

Interview: Stephanie Sirr on The Golden Years of Nottingham Playhouse

The Nottingham Playhouse celebrates fifty years at Wellington Circus this September. We spoke to Chief Executive Stephanie Sirr about the venue,  their history and their plans to celebrate...

Art Works: Eva Brudenell

"Over the last year the iconic buildings I’ve drawn have included Home Ales in Daybrook, Shipstones Brewery in Basford, and Victoria Baths in Sneinton"

Interview: Play No Games

The multi-faceted globe-trotting vanguard of the new school of electronic club sounds in Notts