What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?” Scrooge’s scornful question opens Leeds Playhouse’s lively production of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Deborah McAndrew and set in Victorian Leeds. Directed by Amy Leach, with set and costume design by Hayley Grindle, this retelling bares the heart of Dickens’ story and
Red Ladder Theatre Company and Wrongsemble, two of Yorkshire’s most popular theatre companies, are touring the UK with a double bill of festive shows this Christmas. Red Ladder’s brand new comedy, A Proper Merry Christmess, and Wrongsemble’s family show, A Town Called Christmas, open at Slung Low’s The Warehouse In
It’s 1809. Mary Bateman is about to be hung for witchcraft and murder. Her career of crime has included fake identities, magic charms, poisoned pudding, a holy hen, drunk watchmen and – of course – a freshly-shaved leg of mutton. ‘Mutton’ is the new play from Leeds theatre company Brave
Featuring songs from legendary indie band The Wedding Present, ‘Reception’opens tonight (22 August 2025) at Slung Low’s The Warehouse in Holbeck. Reception is a brand new musical written by Matt Aston that will take you back to the sticky dance floors and crimped hair of 1980s Leeds. Inspired by the
Slung Low, Holbeck’s own theatre company, host two shows this weekend. Big Strong Man is on at The Warehouse in Holbeck on Saturday night whilst Breadcrumbs is an outdoor family performance at Temple on Sunday afternoon … Big Strong Man is a hilarious and powerful show that explores Northern masculinity
A poignant one-woman play set against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland is brought to South Leeds next month by Red Ladder Local. In ‘Troubled’, a 60-minute one woman show about love, death and division told with tea and biscuits, writer and performer Suzy Crothers reveals the impact
ice&fire – the human rights arts charity and theatre company – is staging one-off performances of its ground-breaking ‘Tales from the hostile environment’ across the UK in the run-up to voting in the general election on 4 July. On Sunday (30 June 2024), it will be staged at Slung Low
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
Orphaned and penniless but ambitious with a limitless imagination, the American entertained PT Barnum rises from poverty and creates something extraordinary. With themes of self-acceptance, individuality and community, this theatre performance of The Greatest Showman, is one to watch this December. The Greatest Showman is a 2017 biographical musical that
On Wednesday (17 August 2022) families in South Leeds are invited on a (f)un-expected family adventure at BITMOs GATE in Belle Isle as hit local theatre company Wrongsemble (Not So Ugly Sisters/Tinsel) return with the Grimm Brother’s fairytales told like never before … Meet world-famous twins Jake and Will Grimm,