Theatre and Comedy

Celebrating 10 years of Tramlines, the all-encompassing Sheffield-based festival has revealed its first ever comedy lineup plus a new wave of acts with a keen emphasis on Sheffield talent to appear at the milestone event.

University of Derby Theatre Arts and Technical Theatre students will present two thrilling and thought-provoking plays next month.

Derby LIVE and Little Wolf Entertainment have announced the date of the annual auditions for the pantomime children’s ensemble.

Showbiz giant Count Arthur Strong is touring to Derbyshire this month on his first solo show for several years.

Furthest from the Sea Music, Comedy and Arts CIC is looking for up to four Derbyshire-based individuals, groups or organisations to create new work to be featured at this summer’s Furthest from the Sea Festival.

Broadcasting legend Danny Baker is set to return to the stage with a new show, Good Time Charlie’s Back!, which he has vowed will serve as his farewell tour.

A professional dancer from Hasland who has performed on some of the world’s biggest stages admits her first homecoming show in more than a decade has her ‘racked with nerves’.

Oliver Award-winning actress Nichola McAuliffe plays the iconic role of Miss Haversham in Great Expectations which tours to Buxton next week.

A production of Peter Gill’s poignant and funny play, in a collaborative production by Sheffield Theatres and the Donmar Warehouse, has opened at the Crucible.

There is family fun to be enjoyed as part of Derby Book Festival when There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly is performed.

Shappi Khorsandi is bringing her sell-out Edinburgh Festival Fringe production to Derbyshire.

Outwood Academy Newbold’s lower school drama club performed the Willy Russell’s classic Blood Brothers.

There a wide range of events lined up for people of all ages at this year’s Derby Book Festival.

Take a fun-filled musical journey through the hits of the Fifties and Sxities in the music show Lipstick On Your Collar.

Post-Traumatic Stress, an unseen and often unrecognised injury of war, and the impact it can have on families is explored in a wordless, full mask theatrical production.

Escape the chill of winter in a delightful retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s best known fairytales. Including Thumbelina, The Princess and the Pea and The Emperor’s New Clothes,

The tapes David Frost made in 1977 of his interviews with Richard Nixon, who had recently resigned as the 37th President of the United States, are the basis for Peter Morgan’s play.

Strictly stars danced through the decades as they took Chesterfield’s Pomegranate theatre back in time with the best music of the last 100 years.

A one-woman show penned by The Archers agricultural editor, Graham Harvey is coming to Bakewell.