What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Laura Lomas’ exceptional modern-day reimagining of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s 1888 text ‘Miss Julie’ packs an extraordinary punch, masterfully interrogating some of the most powerful issues in youth culture and broader society today, including the role of class, gender and trauma. The setting: a house party thrown to celebrate
Once again we are offering free* tickets to shows at Leeds Playhouse this spring and summer. What’s the catch? Well in return for two free tickets to the press night, we ask you to provide us with a review of the show. Don’t worry if you’ve never written a review
Mr Snow is a seasonal production at the Leeds Playhouse which is aimed at toddlers and young children from the age of 3 upwards. On a wet and cold afternoon, my three year old daughter Rosie and I went along to the show, with me wondering just how much of
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is the seasonal offering in the Quarry theatre at Leeds Playhouse until 25 January 2025. We attended the signed performance on Friday 22 November. The audience was mixed with quite a lot of children present. I spoke to four children whose comments were
It has been many years since I read Sebastian Faulks’ modern classic Birdsong, but I recall that the story moved me very much back then and so I was excited to see this theatre production to mark 30 years since the book’s release. It is a story of war, love,
Once again we are offering free* tickets to shows at Leeds Playhouse this autumn. What’s the catch? Well in return for two free tickets to the press night, we ask you to provide us with a review of the show. Don’t worry if you’ve never written a review before, we’ll
My Fair Lady is a collaboration between Leeds Playhouse and Opera North and at Leeds Playhouse Quarry Theatre. It tells the story of Eliza, a cockney flower girl who wants to better herself. She meets Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering and asks for lessons to help her achieve her ambition
My friend and I got into the theatre early and that turned out to be good thing as there was so much to see in the set design. The stage was set as an attic bedroom where Kevin was holed away in his family home during Covid. Kevin has lost
I saw the play Macbeth on Thursday, which was very well played. It was orchestrated and written with clarity. From the beginning of the play I was drawn into a world of ambition and betrayal. It started off creepy which set the tone perfectly. The cast were amazing, especially Jessica
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (first anonymously published in 1818) is lauded as the first science-fiction novel – I was very much looking forward to this production of Frankenstein by Imitating the Dog theatre company. Even if you have never read the novel, you will be aware of the themes and components