Nottingham Playhouse
Until - 1st Oct

A night at the opera ends with a shock for mild-mannered couple Maurice and Rosemary Ransome when they open their front door to discover their flat completely empty. From light bulbs to carpets to toilet paper, even their chicken casserole has been stolen.

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Various Venues
Until - 2nd Oct

The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. And everyone’s invited.

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Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
Until - 6th Nov

In his first solo exhibition, Nottingham artist Michael Forbes explores themes of contemporary racial politics, migration, history, religion, and blackness/whiteness. He works with sculpture, installation, and photography.

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Theatre Royal,Nottingham
Until 1st Oct

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S THE MOUSETRAP is the world’s longest-running play. This thrilling West End production is THE genre-defining murder mystery from the best-selling novelist of all time… case closed!

As news spreads of a murder in London, a group of seven strangers find themselves snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse. When a police sergeant arrives, the guests discover – to their horror – that a killer is in their midst!

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Lakeside Arts,Nottingham
Until - 9th Oct

SÉANCE, the first DARKFIELD shipping container experience, transforms the interior of a 24ft container into a Victorian séance room. Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people and asks that they believe, not only in what seems to be happening inside the container but also in what might be conjured up into the room with them.

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Rose Theatre Chesterfield
Until 1st Oct

FourBlokes Theatre Company are delighted to be returning to the Rose Theatre to open the 2022 Autumn season with Tennessee Williams’ classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

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Ravenshead Village Hall
Until 1st Oct

Ravenshead Theatre Group are excited to announce our next production is the chilling and atmospheric Frankenstein! Come and witness the first true science fiction sorry as a scientist deals with the horrifying aftermath of interfering in the creation of life.

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Burton Joyce Players
Until 1st Oct

Whilst it not quite Halloween, the story centres upon a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight and are increasingly threatened by a latent external force.

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The Maypole, Brook Street, Derby,
30th Sept

“Rob Steventon achieves with his poetry the aims so often laid out by poetry people, but too rarely achieved. His words are inventive, surprising, political, accessible, relatable and often really laugh-out-loud funny. Our aim as performance poets should always be to be better than what our audience could be watching on telly. Robert Steventon is better than telly.”

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Mammoth Cinema, Nottingham
30th Sept

When Pigs Escape is an independent documentary made in Nottingham about the remarkable story of Matilda, a pig who escaped from a farm to give birth to a litter of piglets in the woods.

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Old Market Square, Nottingham
30th Sept

Join us for our usual improvised ride on the city streets. There’ll be cycles of all shapes and sizes and music and some fun. And it will be so much better if YOU come. Meet from 18:45ish for a 19:00 start.

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Nottingham Playhouse
30th Sept

This city is desperate for people to birth, live and die here, Sarah’s fighting against that. She CANNOT be like her mum, passing every childhood friend in the aisle of TK Maxx. FISHCAT follows fourteen year-old Sarah as she searches for her future in a daunting, internet infested world, attempting to take on teenage-hood, her dad, and the coolest boy that ever walked the Earth…Gary.

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Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
30th Sept - 12th Nov

Expect creative fun from one of our oldest surviving alternative comics. Taking down politicians. Mucking about. New ideas and finding HOPE.

This award-winning comedian (is there any other type?) asks how did we get here? What are we going to do about it? Who’s up for a sing song?

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Nottingham Playhouse
1st Oct

Join us for Saturday Mic Live in our brand new Company Bar

The Spiders From Under The Stairs

Katy and Lloydie present… Brand New Musical

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Nottingham Writers' Studio
1st Oct

It’s time again for our fabulous monthly social! Meet up with fellow writers to discuss/argue the night away over the most affordable drinks in town. The bar opens at 6pm and shuts when we say it does (or until The Carousel kicks us out) so come, enjoy and be merry at the one place which won’t be packed on Saturday night. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Variois Venues
1st - 7th Oct

People aged 50 and over are being encouraged to try a range of activities and make new connections in Nottingham.

Organised by Age Friendly Nottingham in collaboration with local arts and culture partners, a series of events will take place across the city from 1 – 7 October.

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The Carousel, Nottingham
2nd Oct

Poets and musicians from all backgrounds are invited to join us for a free multilingual writing workshop, followed by a poetry and music open mic, as part of the Outreach for Recovery project.

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Bradey’s Micro Bar, Sherwood
2nd Oct

An evening of music and poetry with Lewis Burner, Manjit Sahota, Phil Harrison, Tibbie Star, and Paul Carbuncle. Free admission. Collection bucket for BlindEye (Nottingham soup-run). We Shall Overcome!

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Online
2nd Oct

We know that modern times can be particularly challenging to our mental health. Tionee invites you to use the proven power of words (written and verbal) as a way of grounding yourself.

Become part of a supportive community where you can safely share your feelings and experiences, and find language to increase self-awareness; empowering you to improve your own wellbeing.

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Online
3rd Oct

Writers At Work celebrates 25 years with a reading by members of Poets At Work: Kimberly Esslinger, Yvonne M. Estrada, Dylan Cameron Gailey, Eric Howard, Helaina McKibben, Ronna Perrin, Ann Pibel, Bill Ratner, Paula Rudnick, Helen Yeoman-Shaw, and Terry Wolverton.

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Loughborough Town Hall
4th - 8th Oct

Follow the lives of Charlie, a shoe factory owner struggling to save his family’s business, and the fabulous drag entertainer, Lola, in a bid to create a line of sturdy stilettos unlike any the world has ever seen!

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Nonsuch Studios
6th Oct

On the first thursday of every month, join the Nonsuch Studios' team and the great and the good of Nottingham's theatre-making, artistic and creative communities for our anti-networking Pub Quiz and social!

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Online
6th Oct

This is the second of six international online events organised by Five Leaves Bookshop, with funding from Arts Council England. The events bring writers from our region of England together with native writers from the cities we are visiting. All of those cities are UNESCO Cities of Literature, as is Nottingham, and as Nottingham’s independent bookshop we want to help to establish links with other Cities of Literature, their authors and their bookshops.

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6th Oct

Barbara Meyer provides a fascinating run-down of different approaches to wildlife conservation, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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Nottingham Writer's Studio
7th Oct

A journaling practice can liberate creativity, lead to greater inner balance and provide a sense of clarity and momentum as we navigate change.

This one-off session offers a supportive space for those who love words – wherever they are on their journey with writing – to spend some time opening into creativity and self-reflection while exploring the dimensions of keeping a journal.

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Nottingham Playhouse
7th - 8th Oct

My Dad, Dave, died on 5 November 2015 of complications related to dementia.

It was f*cking awful. But the eulogy I gave was brilliant. It deserves a bigger crowd.

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Lacemarkt Theatre, Nottingham
10th - 15th Oct

Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children.

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Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
11th Oct

Enjoy dance, theatre, music and spoken word performances from this year’s Young Creative Award winners and beyond.

Young Creatives Nottingham, Nottingham Lakeside Arts and Dance4 have come together to present some of the best young talents in Nottingham, for an evening of performances in our Djanogly Theatre.

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Bonington Theatre, Arnold
12th - 15th Oct

‘I am a Camera’ is set in Berlin, just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin. Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.

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13th - 15th Oct

To escape the demands of London life Pam and her brother Roddy Fitzgerald discover a charming house in the West of England overlooking the Irish Sea unaware of its unsavory reputation.

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Rough Trade Nottingham
24th Oct

Rough Trade Nottingham is very excited to present a live in-store performance and signing from Hugh Cornwell. This unique event celebrates the release of the widely regarded poet laureate of the punk era and former frontman of The Stranglers' tenth solo album 'Moments of Madness' released on October 21st via His Records.

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New Art Exchange, Nottingham
25th Nov

Developed as part of her recent residency at NAE (July to September 22), artist and educator Ioney Smallhorne will be presenting a new body of writing produced as part of her research project Jamaica & Her Daughters in an interactive and multi-disciplinary poetry experience.

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