Derby Playhouse
The Derby Playhouse opened on the 20th September 1975. It ran into financial difficulties in 2007 and it’s run of “Treasure Island” ended on the 2nd February 2008. The theatre reopened briefly on the 13th September 2008 with a production of “The Killing of Sister George” but closed permanently when this production ended on the 18th October 2008. The theatre was subsequently sold to the University of Derby and reopened in 2009 as the Derby Theatre.
Past productions
- Stepping Out, Derby Playhouse Company
- Moonlanding, Derby Playhouse
- Company, Derby Playhouse Company
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Derby Playhouse
- Educating Rita, Derby Playhouse Company
- The Front Room, Kushite Theatre
- Jack and the Beanstalk, Derby Playhouse
- A Life in the Theatre, Derby Playhouse Company
- On the Piste, Derby Playhouse Company
- The Contractor, Derby Playhouse and Oxford Stage Company
- The Collector, Derby Playhouse and Royal Lyceum Theatre Company
- Adam Bede, Derby Playhouse and York Theatre Royal
- Richard III
- Our Boys, in association with Incidental Theatre
- Absurd Person Singular
- Blood Money, Derby Playhouse
- An Evening with Gary Lineker, Derby Playhouse and Everyman Cheltenham
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Derby Playhouse
- Augustine (Big Hysteria), Paines Plough
- Sleuth, Excalibur Productions
- Jane Eyre, Derby Playhouse
- Glory!, Tenba Theatre Company in Co-production with Derby Playhouse
- The School for Wives
- Dangerous Obsession, Dina and Alexander E Racolin, John Newman, Mark Furness, and Martin Birrane
- Private Lives
- Time and the Conways, Derby Playhouse
- Gaslight, Derby Playhouse
- It’s a Madhouse
- The Anastasia File, Derby Playhouse and North Bank Productions
- The Snow Queen, Derby Playhouse
- You Never Can Tell
- Blood Relations
- Canterbury Tales
- Pinocchio, Derby Playhouse
- Fallen Angels
- Murder with Love, Derby Playhouse
- An Inspector Calls, Derby Playhouse Company
- Otherwise Engaged, Derby Playhouse
- The Boy Friend, Derby Playhouse
- Arms and the Man, Derby Playhouse Company
- Aladdin
- Hay Fever, Derby Playhouse Company
- Treasure Island
- Butley, Derby Playhouse Company
- Uncle Vanya
- How the Other Half Loves, Derby Playhouse Company
- As You Like It, Derby Playhouse
- Portrait of a Queen, Derby Playhouse
- Journey’s End, Derby Playhouse
- The Knack, Derby Playhouse
- Derby
- A proscenium theatre.
- Opened 20th September 1975
- Closed 18th October 2008
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