Theatre and Comedy

Theatre fans have a triple treat in store as Chesterfield Pomegranate Theatre hosts its Summer Play Season.

A Wild Walk: The Golden Thief is to be presented by popular Derbyshire-based theatre company Babbling Vagabonds, on Saturday, August 18, from 11am and 2pm at Crich Glebe Field Centre.

Comedy legend Joe Pasquale and Only Fools and Horses star John Challis will head the cast of this year’s swashbuckling family pantomime, Peter Pan, from Saturday, December 8, to Sunday, January 13, at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal.

Derbyshire-based Present Company will be performing Cole Porter’s popular musical High Society at two venues in the county later this month.

Furthest From The Sea Music, Comedy and Arts CIC is holding a series of free evening workshops and seminars this August at The Orange Tree, Derby.

The Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season is up and running this week at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, with four mysteries being lined up over the next month.

Derby Theatre’s big production for the autumn season will be Mike Leigh’s cult classic, Abigail’s Party, a co-production with Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Wiltshire Creative and Les Théatres de la Ville de Luxembourg.

The show Freeman is to drop in at Nottingham Playhouse in September, as part of the UK tour that follows a stay at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Sandi Toksvig is to perform live show National Trevor at Nottingham Royal Concert Hall on February 7.

Get your tickets nice and early for Murder For Two, coming to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from November 26-28.

A spectacular time will be in store when Cirque du Soleil brings its new show OVO to two arenas in the area later this year.

A summer festival of fresh and thrilling theatre returns to Derbyshire this month.

Production chiefs have been inundated with requests from young people wishing to audition for this year’s festive offering at Derby Theatre.

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.

Olivier Award winner Rebecca Trehearn is to take the title role in Sweet Charity at Nottingham Playhouse later this year.

Comedian Craig Hill will be bringing his brand new tour preview show to The Glee Club, Nottingham on October 5-6.

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.

A Crich teenager will take the stage with one of the UK’s leading musical theatre companies for young people this summer after beating hundreds of other hopefuls.