The year 2007 has proven to be a vintage one for Nottingham Playhouse. The productions programmed by Artistic Director Giles Croft and Chief Executive Stephanie Sirr, as well as the work of the Theatre-in-Education company Roundabout, were again enjoyed by thousands – not only in Nottingham but in every part of the UK, including the capital. The Playhouse was also crowned the UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre, one of several notable awards and nominations during the year.

• Lucy Pitman-Wallace’s production of The Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, returned for tour, selling out its run at London’s Barbican and exciting international interest . Nottingham Playhouse has now been invited to present the production at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut - the site of Yale University.
• Jacqueline Wilson’s unruly heroine continued her unstoppable progress as Tracy Beaker Gets Real visited every part of the United Kingdom between January and September, following the 2006 tour. Adapted by Mary Morris with songs by Grant Olding and Mary Morris, the show was hailed by Mark Shenton of the stage as "the best British musical I have seen in years".
• Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company hit the road once more in the autumn with The Changeling by Middleton and Rowley, a co-production with English Touring Theatre.
• Whisky Galore! The Making of a Fillum, adapted and directed by Giles Croft, daringly toured both England and Scotland in the earlier part of the year.
• Giles Croft also directed the first UK mainstage production of international hit Beast on the Moon by Richard Kalinoski, just as its subject – the Armenian genocide of 1915 – was generating fresh headlines.
•  Roundabout’s production The Whale’s Tooth, designed expressly for young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties and part-funded by Children in Need, visited every special school in the region. Roundabout has now been invited to revive it for the Unicorn Theatre in London.
• Roundabout also piloted a new youth theatre scheme, Momentous, which culminated in the professionally-mounted production Stone Moon. Meanwhile, the well-established Nubian All-Stars premiered Misrepresented People, a young people’s response to Nottingham’s reputation for street violence.

• Capping a multi-award-winning year, the title of the UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre was bestowed by the TMA (Theatrical Management Association) in recognition of Platinum Playhouse, the venue’s continuing programme to maintain and extend its excellence in customer care.
• Playwright Michael Pinchbeck triumphed over stiff opposition to win a Nottingham Creative Industries award for his play The White Album, based on a concept by Giles Croft and premiered at the Playhouse in 2006.
• Head of Roundabout and Education Andrew Breakwell won the Encouragement Award presented by the Writer’s Guild in acknowledgement of his outstanding support for living writers.
• Anish Kapoor’s Sky Mirror emerged as Nottingham’s favourite landmark in the online Pride of Place Awards coordinated by Nottingham City Council.
• Partner organisation CAST topped the online poll to find the city’s best watering hole in Nottingham’s Best Bar None awards.
• Further nominations for Nottingham Playhouse in 2007 included a nod to Alice Redmond as Best Actress in a Musical (Tracy Beaker Gets Real), and Special Achievement in Theatre for the pioneering Young Critics’ Circle scheme, both in the TMA awards.

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