Nottingham

While orchestral performances are often associated with serenity, BBC Concert Orchestra’s Friday Night is Music Night: TV Classics at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall was anything but subdued — and that was its greatest triumph. This was no evening of quiet reflection; it was a night of exhilaration and nostalgia,...

Katie Barr There’s nothing quite like a gripping whodunnit to electrify an audience, and the showing of Murder on the Orient Express at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal is a first-class journey into intrigue. Impact reviewer, Katie Barr tells us all of Agatha Christie’s classic detective tale, brought to life in...

Harriet Hobbs It’s finally happened. After months of frigid and bitter chill, it’s official, the clocks have leapt forward reminding us all that Spring has arrived. University Park Campus has a habit of showcasing all seasons like a new fashion and Spring certainly seems to suit her very well....

Amelia Cropley Is thrifting a community? Impact reviewer Amelia Cropley would say so. Attending the Y2K CATCH market, Amelia tells of all she saw. To thrift is to swap and borrow your friends’ old clothes, buy someone’s preloved jeans and give it a second life. Thrifting also means becoming...

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Katie Barr When a classic musical like Calamity Jane rides back into town, expectations are as high as the Dakota sky. The Watermill Theatre’s revival, starring the ever-charming Carrie Hope Fletcher, promises a rootin’-tootin’ adventure across the UK. But does this production gallop to glory, or does it misfire...

Charlie Wood Notts County fail to apply the pressure on those in the automatic promotion places after they lost 2-1 to play-off chasing Chesterfield. Goals from Aribim Peppel and Tom Naylor forced an unlikely victory, to place The Spireites only seven points off the play-off places with a game...