Theatre and Comedy

The award-winning Brendan O’Carroll and Mrs. Brown’s Boys invite you to their brand new production Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Musical? coming to arenas across the UK and Ireland in 2019 and stopping off at the Motorpoint Arena Nottingham from April 19 to 21, and Sheffield FlyDSA Arena from December 6 to 8, 2019.

Unanima Theatre’s new play ID can be seen at The Old Library Media & Arts Venue, Leeming Street, Mansfield, on October 31 and November 1.

The award-winning theatrical group NOWMADS (Nottingham West Music and Drama Society) follows up the success of its sell-out pantomime production of Ali Baba by presenting its autumn show, My Fair Lady, writes Peter Jordan.

With Christmas only two months away, Nottingham Playhouse is getting set for the return of the city’s favourite outlaw in Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, directed and written by panto king Kenneth Alan Taylor.

Mansfield-based Masque Productions will be performing the hit musical Spamalot at the town’s Palace Theatre next month.

Joe McElderry, Neil McDermott, Kate Robbins, Emily Tierney and Amelle Berrabah are to star in the world premiere of new 80s musical Club Tropicana.

Stand-up comedian and podcast maestro Simon Caine will be performing his latest live show at Nottingham Comedy Festival next month.

He’s won an Olivier Award for his performance on stage in After the Dance, appeared in countless TV shows and Oscar-winning films, but the East Midlands-local Adrian Scarborough is probably most recognised for his hilarious appearance as Pete in James Corden and Ruth Jones’s Gavin and Stacey.

Marde Hen Productions will be performing their latest show, Donor, from November 8-10, at Belper’s Strutts Centre.

If you haven’t seen the Shrek movies — and there can’t be many of you — then you must have been living in some abandoned, far-flung swamp like the unlikely and grumpy hero of these wonderful animated stories.

Simon Lipkin and Charlie Brooks are to star in Nativity! The Musical when it comes to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, from November 21-25.

Breath-taking and death-defying are just two of the ways to describe the incredible Cirque Berserk, which is currently running at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham.

The Theatre Royal Nottingham has comedy legend Joe Pasquale and Only Fools and Horses star John Challis leading the cast of this year’s swashbuckling family pantomime, Peter Pan.

Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine is brought to phizz-whizzing life at Sheffield's Lyceum Theatre this week.

The iconic Michael Jackson, the undisputed ‘King of Pop’, lives on in the hearts of music fans the world over, continuing to inspire new generations of singer.

Fat Friends The Musical is coming to Nottingham Theatre Royal, from March 26-31.

Mansfield has another hit panto on its hands – oh yes it does.

Funnyman Peter Kay has been forced to cancel his long-awaited upcoming UK tour - leaving fans heartbroken and wondering how to get refunds.