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10 Things To Do This Week

Varsity Rugby, Mayfest, a Grease Singalong, Alt-J and much much more…

10 Things To Do This Week

The next Varsity installment, and plenty of music, theatre and art to help avoid doing any revision

Eight

Eight becomes Six at the NNT

10 Things To Do This Week

A big theatre week, Dog Is Dead homecoming and much more!

10 Things To Do This Week

Welcome Bach… Escape the library with this weeks selectiong of live music, stand-up and theatre.

A Clockwork Orange

Who ever heard of a Clockwork Orange?

10 Things To Do This Week

We’ve outdone ourselves this time. A zombie apocalypse, opera, A Clockwork Orange, Rebel bingo and choirs…

POSH

SAVAGE. BANTS. POSH.

Rambert Dance Company

An undulating performance at TRCH, in more ways than one…

Wasted

Professionals Paines Plough impress at the Nottingham New Theatre

Stags and Hens

Quick-witted, authentic and downright naughty.

10 Things To Do This Week

Theatre, dance, fashion, charity + much more!

Red

The NNT Spring season hots up with an impressive production of John Logan’s Red.

10 Things To Do This Week

As eclectic as ever. A comedy rap battle, a vintage fair, opera and much much more.

Me, As A Penguin

The NNT Spring season opens with the theft of a penguin, amidst the backdrop of Hull’s gay scene.

10 Things To Do This Week

Varsity Ice Hockey, The Moscow City Ballet & The Harlem Shake. Sounds like another week in Nottingham.

4.48 Psychosis

The unravelling of the human mind to psychosis and suicide. Valentines Day at the Nottingham Playhouse…

NME Awards Tour

Peace, Palma Violets, Miles Kane & Django Django all under one roof at Rock City. We’d expect nothing less from NME.

10 Things To Do This Week

Django Django, 4.48 Psychosis and 8 other quality events

Wild West End

The Mail on Sunday loved it. The Telegraph loved it. Guess what? So do we!

10 Things To Do This Week

We sift through the listings so you don’t have to!

Joking Apart

The 35th anniversary of Alan Ayckbourn’s Joking Apart takes to the stage at the Nottingham Playhouse

10 Things To Do This Week

We sift through the listings so you don’t have to…

10 Things To Do This Week

We know it’s exam time, but here’s a few events you might be able to justify as ‘cultural procrastination’…

808: Your Next Night Out?

Bored of the same old nights. Check out 808 for something original…

The Pillowman

The NNT Autumn season draws to a close…

Mumford and Sons + Supports

A sold out crowd greeted Mumford and Sons at the Nottingham leg of their tour on Saturday at the Capital FM Arena.

10 Things To Do This Week

We sift through the listings so you don’t have to…

Madness

Welcome to the house of fun – Capital FM Arena…

Jerusalem

Alcoholic bucolic frolics at the NNT

Jack Aged 5 1/2

A glimpse back to childhood at the first show in the Nottingham New Theatre Studio.

10 Things To Do This Week

We sift through the listings so you don’t have to…

1984

‘Like something out of a builder’s rudest dream…’ An industrial amphitheatre takes centre stage at the NNT

No Exit

A lifetime in hell, in a library. Sound familiar? The latest offer from the NNT UNCUT season certainly does.

NU:ART

Music, Dance and Comedy on a Friday night. Sounds like Ocean, but couldn’t have been more different.

‘Night, Mother

Suicide, comedy and a working kitchen at the Nottingham New Theatre

Chekhov Double Bill

The Nottingham New Theatre presents: Two Russian farces, one night, £3.

10 Things To Do This Week

We sift through the listings so you don’t have to…

Black Comedy

A most ridiculous set of events that I couldn’t have enjoyed more

Moon

The Nottingham New Theatre Uncut season kicks off with new writing in the unusual location of the Business School Auditorium…

Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls

An adoring Rock City crowd herald the return of Frank Turner

Ten Things To Do This Week

Culture Editors Tom Barnes and Amy Sugarman have flicked through the listings and found 10 things you have to see this week…

The Memory of Water

Lizzie Sheppard strongly recommends that you remember to get down to this on-campus show before Tuesday…

Sonic Boom Six & Imperial Leisure @ Rock City

Punk, Ska and Gangnam Style. What more could you want?!

10 Things To Do This Week

Culture Editors Tom Barnes and Amy Sugarman have flicked through the listings and found 10 things you have to see this week…

Mercury Fur @ Nottingham New Theatre

Claire Lennox was at opening night of the NNT’s first show of the season for twists, shocks and compelling acting.

To Kill A King @ Bodega

A marriage proposal in Hastings, a DLR takeover and a brick through a living room window in Birmingham- What could To Kill A King bring to Bodega?

Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra

World-class orchestra here in Nottingham. Tim Jones checks out the Dresden Philharmonic.