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Nottingham Playhouse has announced Adam Penford’s second season as artistic director, including the return of the popular Wonderland.

Get yourselves along to The Diamond in Sutton-in-Ashfield later this week for a bumper line-up of music entertainment.

Kyla Brox, the UK’s first lady of the blues and recently announced winner of the 2018 UK Blues Challenge, returns with her impressive band to play at Farnsfield Village Centre on Saturday, November 3, for what will be a memorable night of music.

The hugely popular singer Alfie Boe is to perform at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall next year as part of his latest tour.

Natalie Stendall reviews the hard-hitting new film 22 July.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, October 19, to see Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet when it comes to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from October 1-5, 2019.

Joe McElderry, Neil McDermott, Kate Robbins, Emily Tierney and Amelle Berrabah are to star in the world premiere of new 80s musical Club Tropicana.

Kevin Bryan delivers his verdict on some of this week’s alternative CD releases

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Reporter Charlie Bullough looks at how a once reviled part of the beer market is on the up.

Business mogul Lord Sugar is back on our screens looking for his next ‘apprentice’.

Dog walkers could be banned from certain parts of Ashfield sports fields under plans to be pursued by Ashfield District Council.

With Christmas only two months away, Nottingham Playhouse is getting set for the return of the city’s favourite outlaw in Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, directed and written by panto king Kenneth Alan Taylor.

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Check out Rock and Roll Revolution when the show comes to Mansfield’s Palace Theatre on October 18.

Denise Black is currently heading the cast in Kindertransport, the play by Diane Samuels that is at Nottingham Playhouse until October 20.

Don’t miss a gig by Smokey Brights, who will headline Rough Trade in Nottingham on October 22.

Comedian Rhod Gilbert’s latest tour The Book of John will be coming to Derby Arena on May 19.

It’s late as we pull into London and I’m eager to get my head down before the early connection on the following morning’s Eurostar.