Thrillers and big musicals in Nottingham summer

Published: 25 April 2015
Reporter: Steve Orme

Joe Pasquale as King Arthur in Monty Python’s Spamalot which visits the Theatre Royal in June

The summer season at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall offers a “thrilling” mix of drama and musicals, including the annual Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season.

There will be four murder mysteries to solve in the thriller season: Nicholas Briggs’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde from 3 until 8 August, Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams from 10 until 15 August, Francis Durbridge’s Suddenly at Home from 17 until 22 August and Simon Gray’s Stage Struck from 24 until 29 August.

Some of the UK’s biggest musical theatre productions return to the Theatre Royal stage this summer, including Dirty Dancing – the Classic Story on Stage from 26 May until 13 June, Cole Porter’s comedy Anything Goes, featuring Shaun Williamson from 16 until 20 June, Monty Python’s Spamalot with Joe Pasquale from 16 until 20 June and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar from 30 June until 4 July.

Audiences can expect laughter in Mischief Theatre’s Peter Pan Goes Wrong from 6 until 11 July and Ayub Khan Din’s East is East from 27 July until 1 August.

In the Royal Concert Hall Opera North stages Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman on 11 July and “the nation’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll variety show” That’ll Be The Day returns on 18 July.

The full programme is available at the Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall web site.

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