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Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds

The Tale of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny

Summer Nights at Nottingham Castle: Musicals Live with Live Orchestra

Binks Yard Film Club - High School Musical

Big Shed World Cup 2026 - Panama vs England KO 10pm

Six the Musical

Night Creatures Podcast #7: Parisa East from Acoustickle on finding a young Jake Bugg, musical collaborations and juggling life as a promoter

Night Creatures is a LeftLion podcast, shining a light on the promoters of Nottingham. Your  host and interviewer is Beane, co-founder of Nottingham’s beloved Soul Buggin’ night and  he brings with him two decades of experience of putting on great parties in the city. 

Steve Steinman’s Vampires Rock Eternal Love - the Musical

Catching up with Nottingham poet and cultural historian Panya Banjoko

Panya Banjoko is a Nottingham-born poet and cultural historian and a tour de force in our local literature scene. She’s also the keeper of the Nottingham Black Archive and has been a Patron of Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature since it first received the accolade in 2015. We talk to Panya about past and current projects, her new StoryArcs fellowship and why mature ladies get more done…

Jordan Peterson

Musicals, indie markets, creative workshops and animated musical legends... Here's what's on in Nottingham this week 23 - 29 March

Creativity abounds this week in Nottingham! Check out classic West End musicals, mix with other creative folks, check out the handcrafted wares of local artists, or see animated musical legends Gorillaz live. Here's our top picks...

Lockdown Literature: Fictionalising the Pandemic

Peter Capaldi

From painting, to our Panthers and gigs in between: Here's what's on this week in Nottingham, 2 - 8 March

We're welcoming march in true Notts fashion: a week filled with live music, creative meet-ups, and a celebration of positive change...

Theatre Review : I’m Muslamic, Don’t Panik at the Lakeside Arts Theatre

From Bristol to Tehran and back again, Bobak invites the audience on a journey to accept his own heritage, in the face of a hostile western media...

Tusk 'til dawn: Jim Baron of Crazy P fame on his new musical project White Elephant

Best known as one of the founders of Notts electronic music titans Crazy P, Jim Baron (aka Ron Basejam) is a man with his fingers in several musical pies. This month sees the release of World Elephant Day, the first album from White Elephant – a collaborative project with Ben Smith (of Smith & Mudd fame) and fellow Crazy P member Chris Todd. In a wide-ranging catchup, Jim takes us from the halcyon days of nineties Notts to his solo work, and how The Sopranos played a role in the story of Crazy P… 

Review: Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures - The Red Shoes at the Theatre Royal

A stunning reimagining of the classic film

Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures - the Red Shoes

Left Stag: Dave Smith, Sandy Pate and Anglo Scottish Adventures in Ayr

With Burns Night on the horizon on Sunday 25 January, we invited our regular Notts County, Mansfield Town and Nottingham Forest football columnists to muse on the influence of Scotland in the history of their own clubs…

Below, Josh Osoro Pickering - our Mansfield Town specialist - tells a Mansfield-set story of Anglo-Scottish sport... 

Audience… With Professor Peter Murphy

Helen Oxenbury: We're Going On a Bear Hunt and Other Adventures

Helen Oxenbury: We're Going On a Bear Hunt and Other Adventures

Helen Oxenbury: We're Going On a Bear Hunt and Other Adventures

Helen Oxenbury: We're Going On a Bear Hunt and Other Adventures