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Formerly University of Nottingham Arts Centre. The New Theatre is the only student run theatre in England. It is located on Cherry Tree Hill (behind the Portland Building) on University Park

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Past Productions

Persephone

Shoe Baby

The Museum of Marvellous Things

The Storm Whale

DeNada DanceMariposa

What a Knight!

Noise Next DoorThe Adventure Academy…For Adventurers!

Northern RascalsSunny/Side

Pinocchio

The Little Prince

Mark ThomasGaffa Tapes

Rokia Kone

Make Good: The Post Office Scandal

A Tiger’s Tale

Stories of a Watersprite

Handa’s Surprise

Tom Thumb

Seke ChimutengwendeIt Begins in Darkness

Take Flight

Woodland Tales with Granddad

An Evening with John RobbDo You Believe in the Power of Rock and Roll?

Just Us Dance TheatreHip Hop Apprenticeship Company

Anansi and the Lost Sun

BBC Concert Orchestra

The Monocle

Dragon

Janet

Loone’s Land

Alasdair Beckett-KingNevermore

Club Origami

Arcade

Breathe

Beautiful Evil Things

Blue Rose Code

Dogs Don’t Do Ballet

The Bull and the Moon

Ossian Huskinson

The Snowsmith

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Bumper Blyton

Wow! Said the Owl

String!

Four Go Wild in Wellies

Zoe’s Peculiar Journey Through Time

Jordan GrayIs It A Bird?

Mark WatsonSearch

Nest

Mark Thomas in England & Son

The Hare and the Moon

The Snail and the Whale

Splash Test Dummies

Twelfth Night

Bromance

The Not So Grimm Twins

Behind the Curtained Door

Maybe Dick

ACE Dance and Music – Unknown Realms

Jasdeep Singh Degun – Anomaly

Vinland

Manchester Collective and Sean Shibe – Rosewood

Romeo and Juliet

The Rest of Our Lives

Breathe

Seance

University Choir – Brahms – A German Requiem

Tom Dale Dance Company – Sub: Version & Surge

Amatis Trio

IWM 14-18 Now Legacy Fund

Beautiful Evil Things

Grace Campbell – A Show About Me

Orlando Consort

Fubunation – The Ruin Series

Krapp’s Last Tape

An Audience with Kenneth Alan Taylor BEM

Schumann Quartet

Zlatomir Fung & Benjamin Hochman

Moon Rabbit and Other Stories from China

The Singing Mermaid

Fidelio Trio

Festival of Lessons and Carols

Morgan & West – Morgan & West’s Great Big Christmas Magic Show!

Steven Osborne

Tin Man

University Choir & Philharmonia

Skerryvore

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

University Chamber Choir – Spanish Gold

Crimes on Centre Court

Tord Gustavsen Trio

Daliso Chaponda – Apocalypse Not Now

There’s a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom

Seance

Handa’s Surprise

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Gingerbread Man

2065

Akram Khan Company – Chotto Xenos

DNA

The Days

Theo Clinkard – The Days

Peatbog Faeries

Matt Chorley – Who is in Charge Here?

The Smeds and the Smoos

The Gingerbread Man

University Choir and Chamber Orchestra

Shaparak (Shappi) Khorsandi – It Was The 90s!

University Philharmonia

Shappi Khorsandi – It Was The 90s!

New Art Club – Cupid’s Revenge

Tarzanna

Eulogy

Josephine

Loyiso Gola – Pop Culture

Birth

Javier Jarquin – Card Ninja

Mark Thomas – 50 Things About Us

The Tempest

Thingamabobas

Aidy the Awesome

Roger McGough – Nottingham Poetry Festival and Lakeside Arts

Mabon – The Last Hurrah

Where the Bugaboo Lives

Peatbog Faeries

When We Started Singing

Andrew Maxwell – Reality

She’Koyokh & Jyotsna Srikanth

Rachel Podger

Mark Thomas – 50 Things About Us

A Christmas Carol

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Beasty Baby

Septura Brass Septet with Tanya Myers – Part of UCAN UK Streaming Series

Jack Barry – Alien

George Egg – Moveable Feast

Arctic Ice Music

Aidy the Awesome

Oddsocks The Comedy of Errors

The Wolves in the Walls

Andrew Maxwell – Reality

The Storm Whale

Crimes, Camera, Action

Big Up!

Theo Clinkard – The Days

Macbeth

Little Red Riding Hood

Mark Thomas – 50 Things About Us

Episodes

Xzibit

Pricks

The Merchant of Venice

Shaper/Caper – Within this Dust

James Campbell – The Funny World Of…

Igloo

Flight

Manran

Chloe and the Colour Catcher

Tom

Overheard

Nottingham Chinese New Year Gala

Piatti String Quartet

Catrin Finch & Cimarron

Stella and the Starshiners

Tai Murray – & Silke Avenhaus

Extraordinary Wall [of Silence]

Reynard the Fox

The Snow Dragon

A Georgian Christmas – With Boxwood and Brass

A Christmas Carol

Side by Side – Work in Progress

Shappi Khorsandi – Skittish Warrior – Confessions of a Club Comic

Soonchild

Tom Dale Dance Company – Step Sonic

Protein Dance – The Little Prince

Phronesis

Hey Diddle Diddle

Strange Creatures

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

The Room at the Top of the House

The War of the Buttons

DH Lawrence and Nostalgia

Edinburgh Festival Double Bill – Order From Chaos/Franz and Marie: Woyzeck Retold

The Beatles: Hornsey Road with Mark Lewisohn

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Debashish Bhattacharya Trio

Letters From the Front

Luminarium – Daedalum

Woodland

The Flying Bath

Seeta Patel – The Rite of Spring

DNA

The Gingerbread Man

Losing Her Voice

Wow! It’s Night-Time

Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham

Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70

Bess The Commoner Queen – The Life and Times of Bess of Hardwick

Crimes On the Nile

Strangers on a Train Set

James Cousins – Epilogues

If All the World Were Paper

Nottingham Chinese New Year Gala

Steven Osborne

Citizens of Nowhere?

Lao Can Impression

Mats Eilertsen Trio

The Lord of Milan

Going Home

The Little Gift

Red Riding Hood

Entanglement! An Entropic Tale

Snow White, Rose Red, Bear Brown

Stroke Odysseys

Siobhan Miller

Dr Phil Hammond – Happy Birthday NHS?

The Musicians of Bremen

The Snow Queen

A Thing Mislaid

Robin Ince – Robin Ince’s Chaos of Delights

The Fishermen

Invisible Music

Working Class Hero/The Devil You Know – Edinburgh Festival Double Bill

Luminarium

Grandfather’s House

Sleeping Beauty

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