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A new term of NNT productions has begun and Oliver Lansley’s The Infant makes a fantastic start to an exciting season. This dark comedy is a brilliant blend of laughs and chills, ideal if you really want to get in the mood for Halloween. Walking into the main auditorium,...

Usually when you arrive at a comedy gig, the make-up of the audience immediately shows what you can expect. A Bill Bailey gig will be filled with politically aware over 40s, Miranda Hart’s with women and families but the audience who arrived gave nothing away as what to expect...

Going to a live Paul Merton show is like sitting down with a big family for an evening chat with Dad; EVERYONE is included. From the lady who asks for tips on how to stage her own comedy shows, to she-who-had-too-many-cocktails standing with the support of a chair to...

Last night, The Nottingham Contemporary opened exhibitions by two exciting, emerging, international artists. The galleries were filled, for a late night viewing, with the works of Raphael Hefti and Agnieszka Polska, and an intrigued and inspired audience. The atmosphere was electric as I walked into Hefti’s self-titled exhibition, weaving...

One would be forgiven for thinking that Somerset Maugham’s powerful anti-war drama For Services Rendered was an odd choice by The Lace Market Theatre to commemorate the centenary of the start of  World War 1. When so many theatres, both professional and amateur, are featuring R.C. Sherriff’s masterpiece Journey’s...

Propaganda Swing, part of Nottingham Playhouse’s Time and Memory season, is based on the true and surprising story of ‘Charlie and his Orchestra’. Jazz, which had been frowned upon and even banned in Germany, was allowed by the Nazi party on the radio in the form of propaganda. A...

For a show that is over sixty years old, I was sceptical about how a production of ‘Calamity Jane’ could relate to an audience of today, but the cast and crew pulled it off. Though perhaps not everybody’s cup of tea, the cowboy saloon atmosphere and country-western jigs took...