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The award-winning actor, Richard Griffiths, is the special guest at the first Lincoln Shakespeare Festival.

The 66th season of concerts by Newark and District Music Club features an eclectic mix of artistes. All take place at the Palace Theatre, Newark.

The next round of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, performed by members of the Robin Hood Theatre Company, takes place next month.

It made a refreshing change to see a murder, mystery I had never seen before when the Colin McIntyre Theatre Company staged Anybody For Murder?

A Mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. Luis and I went to see The Gruffalo at the Palace Theatre, Newark, and the show was good.

An open audition for the next Robin Hood Theatre Company play will be held at The Cross Keys, Upton, on Tuesday, September 7 at 7.30pm.

Three of the UK’s leading firework companies will compete against each other at Belvoir Castle.

The first play in this year’s Classic Thriller Season at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, got off to a cracking start on Monday, August 2.

Thousands of people have already visited this year’s Robin Hood Festival at the Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve and Visitor Centre, Edwinstowe.

The Lincoln-based Chapterhouse Theatre Company returns to Newark as part of its 11th season of touring.

Direct from London’s West End, tantalising yet tasteful, camp and colourful, the fascinating art form of burlesque is coming to Newark.

Youngsters from the Newark area are taking part in a residential theatre course from Monday, August 9, to Saturday, August 14..

COMEDY galore is on the menu as the Magners Funhouse Comedy Club returns to Newark with a new compère.

This year’s Nottingham Comedy Festival takes place from September 24 to October 4.

The third Lincoln Comedy Festival has announced the first wave of shows for this year’s event.

It is performed on August 6, at 1.30pm and 4pm, and August 7, at 10.30am and 1.30pm.

Last September, as England played Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham Playhouse presented the first reading of a new play about their most notorious clash of all time — the Bodyline tour of 1932.

Thousands of visitors are expected to descend on Sherwood Forest for the 26th annual Robin Hood Festival.

The Ballad Of Dolly And Clive by Richard Conlon is a wonderful, gentle piece of writing, brought to life by members of Argent Theatre Newark and villagers from Upton.

The award-winning English Youth Ballet returns to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, giving 100 local ballet students a chance to perform on stage.