Play Going - Lace Market

Status:Active, open to new members
Convenor:
Richard Hill
Group email: Play Going - Lace Market group
When: Monthly on Thursday evenings
Venue: Lace Market Theatre
Cost: Auditorium adult £14 concession £13 Studio adult £14 concession £12

The LMT is an independent theatre in Nottingham city centre, staging a varied programme of high-quality amateur productions throughout the year. It is housed in a beautiful Georgian building, dating back to 1760, in the Lace Market district. Performances take place in the recently refurbished and air conditioned auditorium and in the upstairs studio, which also houses a licensed bar.

The theatre is staffed entirely by unpaid members and has a strong sense of community with nearly a hundred years of history behind it. It is a registered charity, with proceeds from ticket sales going into the cost of productions and upkeep.

The theatre can accommodate assistance dogs and has a loop hearing system in both the performance spaces. Unfortunately, they are unable to provide wheelchair access and please note the toilets are upstairs on the first floor with the studio and bar.

Forthcoming events

23/07/2026
19:30
Theatre Visit
by Frank Loesser & Abe Burrown The story concerns young, ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch, who, with the help of the book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, rises […]
Cost: In the Auditorium Adult £18 Concession £16
Booking Required
10/09/2026
07:30
Theatre Visit
by Anton Burge"Great idea, Bob, - put two fading rival Hollywood icons who cordially dislike each other in a film about two faded rival Hollywood icons who loathe each other. […]
Cost: in the studio £13 concession
Booking Required
01/10/2026
07:30
Theatre Visit
by Alistair McDowallA research base on Pluto. No contact with Earth. No way home.As days blur into months and memories begin to distort, the boundaries between past, present, and imagination […]
Cost: in the auditorium concession £14
Booking Required
29/10/2026
19:30
Theatre Visit
by William Shakespeare A kingdom in turmoil; a horrific crime unpunished; a bloody, merciless revenge. Returning to Rome after ten years of battle, having lost twenty-one of his sons to […]
Cost: In the auditorium Concession £14
Booking Required
19/11/2026
19:30
Theatre Visit
by John Pielmeler Psychology and religion intertwine in this moving moral drama that touches on how past traumas can affect present beliefs. When Agnes is found with a dead newborn […]
Cost: In the Studio Concession £13
Booking Required
10/12/2026
19:30
Theatre Visit
by Ray Cooney Henry Perkins has had a very interesting day. He went to work, came home, and somewhere in between managed to acquire a briefcase stuffed with somebody else's […]
Cost: In the auditorium Concession £14
Booking Required
14/01/2027
19:30
Theatre Visit
by Leonard Gershe Don is an aspiring musician. He’s moved out of his mother’s place and she’s not happy about it. She simply worries about Don living independently, him being […]
Cost: In the Auditorium Concession £14
Booking Required
28/01/2027
19:30
Theatre Visit
by Jean Genet Jean Genet's 1947 The Maids is set in post-war France and is loosely based on the real-life 1933 Papin sisters' murder case. The two main protagonists, a […]
Cost: In the Studio Concession £13
Booking Required
18/02/2027
19:30
Theatre Visit
by Moira Buffini Life's pretty tough for Semyon. The revolution has just made life worse. He's unemployed, he's hungry and he's proper fed up. His wife and mother-in- law certainly […]
Cost: In the Auditorium Concession £14
Booking Required
15/04/2027
19:30
Theatre Visit
by Steven Berkoff; adapted from Franz Kafka Kafka’s parable of the human condition is retold in Berkoff’s startlingly original, challenging and continuously surprising play. This darkly metaphysical tale employs theatrical […]
Cost: In the Auditorium Concession £14
Booking Required
06/05/2027
19:30
Theatre Visit
by Harold Pinter Stanley lives a quiet, uneasy life in a rundown seaside boarding house run by Meg and Petey. Their routine is disrupted by the arrival of two mysterious […]
Cost: n the Studio Concession £13
Booking Required
27/05/2027
19:30
Theatre Visit
by Noël Coward In order to research the occult for his next book, successful novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth have invited the eccentric medium Madame Arcati to […]
Cost: In the Auditorium Concession £14
Booking Required
24/06/2027
19:30
Theatre Visit
by Lucy Kirkwood A remote coastal house. Three adults. And something quietly, deeply wrong. In The Children, Lucy Kirkwood crafts a taut, unsettling portrait of lives lived in the shadow […]
Cost: In the Auditorium Concession £14
Booking Required
22/07/2027
Theatre Visit
Dion Boucicault; revised by Richard Bean It is 1840 or thereabouts. In this Restoration style comedy, Sir Harcourt Courtly is a martyr to fashion, and a self-important, if rather over-the-hill, […]
Cost: In the Auditorium Concession £14
Booking Required