Theatre and Comedy

Present Company’s next production is Cole Porter’s stage musical High Society, adapted from one of Hollywood’s best-loved films, The Philadelphia Story.

A Thing Mislaid is to be presented by Maison Foo at Deda in Derby on September 21-22 and Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre on October 20.

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

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.

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.

Gaslight, Relatively Speaking and Jamaica Inn will be staged in a summer play season in Chesterfield.

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.

Nothing is predictable about Javaad Alipoor’s award-winning show The Believers Are But Brothers, writes Alan Payne.

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.

The regional premiere of a play by Caryl Churchill continues a long association between the celebrated playwright and Sheffield Theatres.

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 year after Ken Kesey’s experimental novel about a group of men in a psychiatric ward was published, Dale Wasserman adapted it for the stage; and a decade or so later the novel was made into a cult film starring Jack Nicholson.

Riding high on a wave of critical acclaim, a West End run and a tour of UK theatres The Kite Runner is currently being performed in Buxton - but audiences need to act fast.

Britain’s Got Talent comedian Daliso Chaponda will be bringing his infectious mirth to Chesterfield on his first UK tour.

Details of this September’s 12th Derby Festé programme have been revealed.

Comedy play The Vicar of Dibley - Love Is All Around will be presented by Chesterfield Operatic Society.