Red Ladder Theatre Company in Film

Three of Red Ladder’s stage productions – Smile Club, The Damned United and Glory – are now available to a much wider audience, having been filmed whilst theatres were still closed under pandemic restrictions. However, plans for filming were thrown into disarray when one key member tested positive for COVID. Rod Dixon, Artistic Director: “Throughout […]

Bad Manners Christmas Tour

Bad Manners is at The Warehouse Leeds on 23 December, with support from MAX SPLODGE. BAD MANNERS, featuring vocalist BUSTER BLOODVESSEL, are some of the most pinnacle spearheads of Ska. The group was at the forefront of the genre’s revival movement in England in the late ’70s, quickly becoming the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, […]

Opera North – It all starts in Leeds

Opera North’s 2022 Winter Season opens at Leeds Grand Theatre in January with two new shows. Rigoletto (Verdi) – opens Sat 22 January Making his opera directing debut is Nigerian-British theatre artist Femi Elufowoju Jr, in a production ‘mapping identity and inequality onto a contemporary canvas’. Eric Greene returns in the title role, and Sir Willard White as Count Monterone, […]

Not just a new ankle….

Yorkshire businessman, Mick Fogarty, doesn’t just have a new ankle; he also has a new lease of life. Mick has done more exercise in the last few months than he has for many years. Having lost 20 kgs in weight, completed two rigorous boot camps in Spain and regularly walking 12.5 kilometres, he has come […]

Manchester Collective: Heavy Metal at Howard Assembly Room on 5 December

Experimental programming and daring collaborations are the hallmarks of Manchester Collective, formed in 2016 by Adam Szabo (Chief Executive) and Rakhi Singh (Music Director). Their cutting age contemporary music combined with classical masterpieces is now staged in concert halls, club spaces and warehouses across the UK and the rest of Europe. Their debut album The Centre […]