Djanogly Theatre

he Djanogly Theatre opened in September 2001 in the award-winning D H L Pavilion – also home to the Weston and Wallner Galleries, the Pavilion Café and Studio spaces – designed by Julian Marsh. The theatre is an end on small-mid scale blackbox theatre with retractable seating suitable for up to 203 people (including restricted view seats). It hosts performances of professional visiting and commissioned/co-produced theatre, dance, amplified music – specifically world, folk and jazz – comedy, literature/spoken word, and festival events including NottDance, neat, Chinese New Year/Spring Festival, Nottingham Festival of Words, and Wheee! (children’s theatre and dance). It also hosts student society performances, an annual co-production with The Nottingham New Theatre, and provides a public platform for some of NLA’s participatory programming. For very small scale performance events, the Performing Arts Studio can accommodate a maximum of 50 people allowing for a 4m × 4m performing space and a basic lighting rig. It also provides workshop space for each of Lakeside’s youth theatre groups, and a creative space for the development of new work.