What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Red Ladder Theatre bring a new production to BITMO’s Gate Centre in Belle Isle next week. Nadia and Abed might just be the next big thing. They’ve started the North’s greatest band ‘Santa Must Die!’ and for one night only they’re playing their local. But it’s Christmas Eve … and
Leeds-based Red Ladder Theatre Company has committed three of their popular stage productions to film with the aim of getting their work out to a wider audience. The Damned United, Glory, and Smile Club were each filmed earlier this year whilst theatres were closed due to the pandemic, but the
Regular visitors to South Leeds, Red Ladder Theatre Company is bringing drama directly to audiences in their homes during the coronavirus crisis with new audio drama, Connected. Connected is produced in partnership with Mantality and stars Leeds Rhino’s captain Stevie Ward alongside co-writer and actor Paul Fox Following the closure
A single mother with three children by different fathers – sound familiar? Mother Courage And Her Children is set during the Thirty Years War in the seventeenth century. Mother Courage is an entrepreneur, she buys cheap and sells at a profit. Her customers are the armies criss-crossing backwards and forwards
This Friday (28 September 2018) Leeds’ Red Ladder Theatre Company brings Bertold Brecht’s classic play Mother Courage And Her Children to the Albion Electric Warehouse in Hunslet for what promises to be a memorable production. Pauline McLynn, best known for playing Mrs Doyle in Father Ted, takes the lead role
Continuing West Yorkshire Playhouse’s commitment to taking artistic work into Leeds communities, this April The Damned United will visit venues across the city following its Playhouse run. The production embarks on a tour visiting community and non-traditional venues including working men’s clubs and sports centres; taking the beautiful game of
Brian Clough, or at least Luke Dickson who plays him in Red Ladder Theatre’s The Damned United, returned to Elland Road to launch the play’s latest run in Leeds. The play focuses on Clough’s disastrous 44 day reign as Manager of Leeds United in 1974 and is an adaptation of
Red Ladder Theatre visit South Leeds Stadium on Friday (9 March 2018) with Anthony Clavane’s play about legenendary Rugby League commentator Eddie Waring. Playing The Joker counts Jamie Jones-Buchanan amongst the cast. Following on from The Damned United, Red Ladder took Playing The Joker to Belle Isle WMC last month. Here’s Linda
In this 50th year since the legendary ‘Watersplash Final’, Red Ladder Theatre Company is touring rugby league play ‘Playing The Joker’ to rugby clubs and non-traditional arts spaces across Yorkshire. Written by award-winning author and former Sunday Mirror journalist Anthony Clavane (Promised Land/Leeds Lads), ‘Playing The Joker’ examines the People’s
BITMOs GATE centre was packed on Tuesday night (14 November 2017) for Red Ladder Theatre’s performance of Wrong ‘Un – “the one woman suffragette musical” Kathleen Yore plays the role of Annie Wilde, a mill girl from Nelson in Lancashire. Laughed at for wanting to play for football in school,