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Entertainment In Nottingham
By Susan Ashby
Nottingham has a delightful array of fascinating tourist attractions, suiting everyone from the history buff to the Robin Hood fan, but the city has a lot to offer beyond half-day excursions for out-of-towners. For those who live in the city proper, or in its surrounding conurbation, and for those who visit on day trips and holidays, there is music of all sorts, theater, dining, shopping, sport and nightlife. Entertainment is rich and plentiful in the modern city of Nottingham.
For classical music, there are several performing groups to choose from, including the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra, the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra, the Harmonic Society, the Bach Choir, the Symphonic Wind Orchestra, and the Early Music group Musica Donum Dei. The government also sponsors an annual series of orchestral concerts known as the Nottingham Classics, and the Nottingham Music Society hosts chamber music performances at the Castle Gate Congregational Centre.
The city is home to several other exciting music venues, including the Royal Concert Hall and the Nottingham Arena, which feature a wide variety of modern performers. More intimate shows are played at club venues such as Junktion 7, The Old Angel, the award-winning Rock City and its sister venues, and many more. Nottingham has a very lively pub and club scene, sustained by young adults from the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University. The local music scene has produced the bands Swing Out Sister, Ten Years After, Paper Lace, Tindersticks, Stereo MCs, Pitchshifter and Consumed.
The discerning theatre buff may attend plays at the Nottingham Playhouse, the Theatre Royal, and the Nottingham Arts Theatre. Smaller local theatres include Albert Hall Nottingham, the Bonington Theatre, the Clarendon Community Theatre, the Courtyard Theatre, and the Lakeside Arts Centre. Each year Newstead Abbey hosts summer theatre, with Shakespeare and other offerings, while in the winter time they present nostalgic Christmas pageants.
Dining out in Nottingham twenty years ago was a rather grim business, as the choices were rather narrow and bland. These days there are many fine restaurants, some winning national awards, including Hart’s, Jesse’s, Merchants, Petit Paris, Pretty Orchid, Punchinello’s, and The Mediterranean. There are a wide variety of local and ethnic cuisines to choose from in the city’s numerous restaurants, cafes, delivery places, and take-aways. Indian, Middle Eastern, Spanish, Italian, Egyptian, Caribbean, Mexican, Russian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and even American food is available.
Sport is a prime diversion in Nottingham, with three major venues within direct line of sight of each other. The local football teams are Nottingham Forest and Notts County (the oldest Football League team in the world). The Trent Bridge cricket ground is home to the champion Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. Each year in the fall the acclaimed “Robin Hood Marathon” and a handful of shorter races are organized in the
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