“Summer fun, an impressive line-up of big names and lots of laughter” are promised in the June to August season at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall.
Propeller, in association with the Touring Partnership, gets the season under way with two of Shakespeare’s comedies, Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew. They will be performed by its all-male company under the direction of Edward Hall from 29 May until 1 June.
A new production of Cole Porter’s timeless musical High Society, which stars Michael Praed, Daniel Boys and Sophie Bould, visits the Theatre Royal from 4 until 8 June and is followed by 9 to 5 the Musical from 10 to 15 June.
Sebastian Faulks’s tale of love and war, Birdsong, takes to the Theatre Royal stage from 17 until 22 June and is followed by more musicals, Soul Sister, inspired by the music, life and times of Ike and Tina Turner, from 24 to 29 June, and Hairspray which stops off for a fortnight from 2 until 13 July.
Drama then takes centre stage, with The 39 Steps from 15 until 20 July before the Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season offers four weeks of murder mysteries from 29 July until 24 August.
This year the plays are Murder Live! by Mary Elliott Nelson; Francis Durbridge’s The Gentle Hook; Janet Green’s Murder Mistaken; and Murderer by Anthony Shaffer.
In the Royal Concert Hall, Jason Donovan stars in Priscilla Queen of the Desert from 22 until 27 July while Ghost the Musical makes its first visit to Nottingham from 13 until 24 August.
More information can be found at www.trch.co.uk.