I’m delighted to be working with Sarah Frankcom yet again, and to be invited by Adam and the team to the fabulous Nottingham Playhouse.” Peter Butler will design the production, and Annie May Fletcher ...

Nottingham Playhouse has revealed its final shows for 2025 and into the new year. The new season includes the world premiere of a new play, a UK regional premiere, and the return of a favourite ...

Nottingham Playhouse's autumn 2025 season opens 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 ...

Maxine Peake is to play campaigner Mary Whitehouse in a play by poet Caroline Bird, as part of Nottingham Playhouse’s autumn and winter season. Peake will star in the world premiere of The Last ...

It was adapted into other works like Peter Ustinov’s “Romanoff and Juliet,” plus “Shakespeare in Love,” and Broadway’s current “& Juliet.” “Romeo & Juliet,” along with ...

Written by Caroline Bird, whose highly successful 2022 play Red Ellen was such a hit at the city centre venue, this wickedly funny new play explores the enigma of Mary Whitehouse: pearl-clutching ...

starring Shirley MacLaine and Peter Ustinov, with a supporting cast including Richard Crenna and Jerry Orbach. Dance remained a through-line in his career, stretching into his later life ...

Peter Ustinov, Kevin Bacon, and Bruce Campbell; romance writers Nora Roberts and Janet Dailey; astronauts such as John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin, Tom Stafford, and Gene Cernan; diplomats including ...

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE ( 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer ...