The season will the world premiere of a newly commissioned play, the UK regional premiere of a comedy and the return of a favourite literary adaptation.
The Nottingham Playhouse, named joint Theatre of the Year in The Stage Awards 2025, announces its new autumn winter 2025/26 season.
This newly announced season will open with the world premiere of a new play, The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse. Written by Caroline Bird, whose highly successful 2022 play Red Ellen was such a hit, this new play explores the enigma of Mary Whitehouse: pearl-clutching prude or ‘the most dangerous woman in Britain’? It will star Maxine Peake in the title role.
Also announced is the UK Regional premiere of Jonathan Spector’s razor-sharp comedy Eureka Day which sees friendships challenged when an outbreak of mumps reveals that not everyone is on board with the school’s vaccine policy. The Executive Committee of well-meaning parents and teachers at a progressive Californian elementary school fall apart, as their selfless paradise crumbles and meetings are derailed by parental hysteria.
Meanwhile, back by popular demand is The Beekeeper of Aleppo which will once again be directed by Olivier Award winning Miranda Cromwell (Death of a Salesman – Young Vic, Piccadilly Theatre, and Broadway). Christy Lefteri’s best-selling novel will once again return to the Nottingham Playhouse after its world premiere and a sell-out UK tour in 2023. It is once again produced in association with UK Productions.
Nottingham Playhouse’s autumn programme also includes the previously announced To Kill a Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin’s award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel. The legendary panto this year is the spellbinding Sleeping Beauty, with the much-loved John Elkington as Dame, and the Neville Studio production for younger children is The Little Mermaid.
For more information visit: https://nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/