Leeds Lit Fest 2024 announces Headliners
The sixth Leeds Lit Fest will take place across a range of the City’s venues from 5 to 23 June this year, with headliners LYR, John Agard, Stuart Maconie, Salena Godden, Helen Lederer and DJ Paulette. The City’s award-winning Festival of words and thought aims to bring together, and help develop, the Leeds’ literary scene, […]
Celebrated Sitar Player Niladri Kumar: Howard Assembly Room Debut on 16 May
Audiences will have a rare opportunity to catch sitar maestro and award-winning film composer Niladri Kumar in Leeds, when he brings his immersive musical experience to the Howard Assembly Room for the very first time. Having started to learn sitar at the age of four under the tutelage of his father, a disciple of Ravi […]
Come From Away – Flying Into Leeds on First Ever Tour
Come From Away, the multi-award-winning ‘BestNewMusical’ across the globe, comes to Leeds Grand Theatre from 30 April to 11 May as part of its first ever tour of the UK and Ireland. This critically acclaimed show comes direct from the West End, where it celebrated over 1000 performances and played to more than 850,000 people […]
Mother of The Revolution: The World Premiere – at Leeds Industrial Museum
Rehearsals are underway for the world premiere folk musical ‘Mother of the Revolution’. Based on an original concept and directed by archipelago art collective’s co-founder Beth Knight, Mother of the Revolution will unearth the untold story of Yorkshire legend and successful industrialist Betty Beecroft, alongside those of the working communities that followed her. The script […]
FADE: at Leeds Playhouse on 25 – 27 April
Visually impaired and neurodivergent actor, writer and creative access director, Alice Christina-Corrigan, is proud to present FADE. FADE is commissioned by The Lowry as part of the ‘Developed With’ programme. FADE explores sibling-allyship and integrates projections, original sound design, movement and creative captioning. Following the sudden death of their mother, estranged siblings Cassie and Rubin are reunited in their family home. […]
