Reviews
Shebeen – Review
| June 25, 2018
From the bonhomie opening, and larger than life performance of Martina Laird, you’d be forgiven for initially thinking that Shebeen is a jolly, light-hearted sitcom about 1950s Windrush
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Windrush, racism & settling in. Nottingham Playhouse premieres award-winning Shebeen
| May 16, 2018
The Windrush generation is remembered in Mufaro Makubika’s award-winning play, Shebeen, which premieres at Nottingham Playhouse before moving to Theatre Royal Stratford East. Nottingham local Karl Collins takes
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The Madness of George III adds extra dates at Nottingham Playhouse
| April 6, 2018
Nottingham Playhouse has had to add extra dates to its run of Alan Bennett’s multi award-winning drama, The Madness of George III, which stars Mark Gatiss and, announced
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Kacey Ainsworth takes a mo to talk about Holes at Nottingham Playhouse
| April 5, 2018
Kacey Ainsworth became a household name when she joined the cast of Albert Square as Little Mo in 2000, winning Most Popular Actress in the 2002 National Television
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Penford digs Holes for his opening show at Nottingham Playhouse
| March 26, 2018
Adam Penford’s inaugural production as artistic director at Nottingham Playhouse is Louis Sachar’s theatrical version of the multi award-winning novel Holes starring EastEnders’s Little Mo, Kacey Ainsworth, and
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Nottingham Playhouse announces Our Country’s Good spring UK tour
| January 2, 2018
Nottingham Playhouse takes the lead as producer for a national tour of the acclaimed Ramps on The Moon co-production of Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker. This is
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Adam Penford debuts at Nottingham Playhouse with pit-drama Wonderland
| December 12, 2017
Nottingham Playhouse’s new artistic director, Adam Penford, makes his directing debut at the venue with Beth Steel’s mining drama, Wonderland, starring Matthew Cottle and Harry Hepple. Wonderland is
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Sara Stewart steps into The Cherry Orchard for Nottingham Playhouse
| October 16, 2017
Nottingham Playhouse artistic director, Giles Croft, has completed casting for his farewell production, Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, which opens on November 3. Sara Stewart, fresh from the gripping
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Nottingham Playhouse on track for train thriller, Wreck, this September
| July 7, 2017
I’m telling you what happened! But you don’t – no one believes me. An easy-going Nottingham lad boards a train, fresh from visiting his girlfriend. His world is
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Comic Sara Pascoe rewrites Pride & Prejudice for Nottingham & York theatres
| July 5, 2017
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous love story our country has ever produced, yet the women don’t work, the servants don’t speak, and who cares how filthy
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Murder and Lies in Notts & West Yorks Playhouses’ Sleuth revival
| September 5, 2016
A deadly game of cat and mouse is about to start at Nottingham and West Yorkshire Playhouses with the opening this month of Anthony Shaffer’s Tony-award winning thriller,
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One last case. John Harvey brings Darkness, Darkness to Notts Playhouse
| August 2, 2016
Life for Edge of Darkness star David Fleeshman is to get even murkier when he plunges deep into society’s underbelly to play a gumshoe in John Harvey’s Darkness
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