📢 PUNCH 2027 NOW ON SALE 📢
Winner of the Evening Standard Award and the Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play, PUNCH is returning to Nottingham Playhouse and is going on tour in 2027.
General booking for Nottingham Playhouse is NOW OPEN.
Don’t miss out on the ‘play that every person should see’ (@WhatsOnStage)
📅 Mon 25 Jan – Sat 6 Feb 2027
🎟️ bit.ly/punch2027
At a pub quiz in Glasgow, the final question to win £1000 pounds is, "Take That's first Album had a four word title. The first two words were, 'Take That', what were the second two?"
After a lengthy silence a wee Glesga man stands up & says, "Was it, ya bastard?"
We're looking for a brilliant Director of Producing for @NottmPlayhouse - it's a great city and a great place to work, deadline 31st March, Salary £48k to £55k
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📢2026 Season!
First Year - Jess meets Billy, the person who'll shape her life forever. This warm, funny premiere looks at the bond you share with the person who knows your flaws but loves you anyway.
📅 15 May – 6 June
🎟️ Priority Booking open
🎟️ General Booking 6 Mar
bit.ly/NPScenes
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📢2026 Season!
The Stone family are in Mansfield for Sylvia & Marek's big day. Everyone's on their best behaviour. For now...The regional premiere of Beth Steel’s uproariously funny family drama. 👰♀️
📅 5 – 26 Sep
🎟️ Priority Booking open
🎟️ General Booking 6 Mar
bit.ly/NPTilltheStars
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📢2026 Season!
Small trains. High stakes. When vandals devastate the Market Deeping Model Railway Club's chances at the Annual Show, the members must pull together to rebuild their miniature world. 🚂
📅 6 – 25 Jul
🎟️ Priority Booking 23 Feb
🎟️ General Booking Fri 6 Mar
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After no-fault divorce became law, suicide rates for women dropped 20%. Domestic violence deaths dropped 10%.. Overall domestic violence against women dropped 30%.
That’s not nostalgia. That’s evidence. No-fault divorce didn’t “destroy families.” It saved women’s lives.
ICYMI, Dominic Maxwell in The Times, talking about ‘the art that made critics cry’ 😢 :
“ … nothing can match the fist-biting I had to do to avoid causing a scene at the Nottingham premiere of James Graham’s play Punch … I’ve never sensed more stifled sobs in one room than the scene when Dunne meets his victim’s parents as part of the restorative justice programme …
"What a study of how we can damage each other, though. What a study of the power of change and forgiveness.”
Punch returns to Nottingham Playhouse in March, and then transfers to @LeedsPlayhouse and @TRPlymouth.
bit.ly/NPPunch
📷 Marc Brenner
Announcing the exciting cast for Matthew Xia’s powerful new production of Small Island, a co-production with Leeds Playhouse and BirminghamRep and in association with Actors Touring Company.
Small Island takes you on an unforgettable journey, from the sun-drenched shores of Jamaica to the cold, grey streets of 1940s London, in this powerful new portrayal of Andrea Levy’s multi-award-winning novel.
bit.ly/SmallIslandNP
🥳 Our new Nottingham Playhouse Workshops and Storage facility is now open! 🥳
Created to support Sustainability, the new 31,140 sq ft space allows us to store and re-use more sets, costumes and props, and provides additional space for building and painting.
In addition, we are able to offer storage facilities to the wider theatre industry, and later this year, the Workshops will be fully operational to commission set builds.
Find out more or get in touch: bit.ly/NPWorkshops
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ALT A large warehouse space with steel girders and wooden flooring is empty.
This February, show some love for your local theatre 💕
Share what you love about Nottingham Playhouse using #LoveYourLocalTheatre for a chance to win tickets to the @OlivierAwards with @cunardline, a stay at @TheMayFairHotel & £500 in @TheatreTokens 🎭
Competition ends 11.59pm on Thursday 5 March. T&Cs apply.
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In the week that Punch is nominated for three Critics' Circle Awards, Punch rehearsals have officially begun!
We’re so excited to welcome our brand new cast to this incredible production – see what they got up to on their first day of rehearsals.
📅 Fri 13 Mar – Sat 4 Apr
🎟️ bit.ly/NPPunch
We are thrilled that #Punch has been nominated for 3 Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards.
BEST NEW PLAY
BEST ACTOR – DAVID SHIELDS
BEST ACTRESS – JULIE HESMONDHALGH
See James Graham’s #Punch in 2026 with a brand new cast bit.ly/NPPunch
And at Leeds Playhouse and @TRPlymouth
Audiences and critics agree: The Beekeeper of Aleppo is unmissable. 'This is not merely a piece of theatre; it is an urgent act of storytelling' ★★★★★ Elemental Theatre
📅Until 28 Feb then on tour
🎟️bit.ly/BeeNP@UKP_Ltd
I'm walking 56 miles in pouring rain with an increasingly soggy and dejected labradoodle in aid of the exceptional @RefugeCharity - 50% of target reached. If you have a few pennies down the back of the sofa - do send them my way :-)
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