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Lucy Briers has been added to the cast of William Ivory’s play The Market Deeping Model Railway Club which will have its première at Nottingham Playhouse.

She played Carol in Anna Mackmin’s Backstroke at the Donmar Warehouse in 2025 and Catherine o...


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Graeme Thompson has been appointed Nottingham Playhouse’s director of producing.

Thompson has more than 15 years’ experience of working as a producer in theatre, specialising in the creation of new productions, programming and artist development. His last job was senior producer at Dance City in Newcastle.

He succeeds Amanda Bruce who has moved to Jamie Wilson P...


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A new production of Lerner & Loewe’s musical My Fair Lady will be directed by Rachel Kavanaugh and run from 6 July to 5 September 2026,

Hadley Fraser will play Henry Higgins, and Keziah Ibe will make her professional debut as Eliza Doolittle. Ben Culleton will play Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Tony Jayawardena will play Colonel Pickering, Belinda Lang will play M...


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Willy Russell’s comedy of classrooms and the class system, Educating Rita, is to be revived by Leicester’s Curve in autumn 2026.

The play features Susan “Rita” White who dreams of making more of her life. Armed with an interest in literature and unwavering determination, she enrols in the Open University, forming an unlikely friendship with disillusioned and d...


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A new performance by Belfast’s Off the Rails dance company, BPM (Barneys, Parties & Melters), is to revisit the city’s vibrant club scene of the early 1990s as the end of decades-long conflict seemed tantalisingly within reach.

Choreographed by the company’s artistic director, Eileen McClory, BPM promises “a visceral collision of contemporary danc...


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