Opera North and Leeds Playhouse: My Fair Lady – A Major New Production
Opera North and Leeds Playhouse will present a major revival of the Lerner and Loewe award-winning musical My Fair Lady from 31 May. This strong ongoing partnership between the two Leeds cultural giants will see Leeds Playhouse’s Artistic Director James Brining direct a new production of this much-loved musical, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture Pygmalion. Featuring Frederick Loewe’s ravishing score and […]
Leeds Playhouse and imitating the dog Recreate a Gothic Classic
The visually captivating and psychologically thrilling Frankenstein, inspired by Mary Shelley’s novel, will run at the Playhouse’s Courtyard Theatre from 15 – 24 February, ahead of a UK tour. This bold, multimedia exploration of the timeless Gothic tale delves into the novel’s themes of fearand anxiety, posing the question ‘what is it to be human?’. […]
Book of the Bard: Exploring Shakespeare’s First Folio
Distinguished Shakespeare scholar Professor Emma Smith is coming to Leeds to talk about the very first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays – probably the most influential secular book ever printed. Without it, half of the Bard’s plays would have been lost. The event has been organised by Headingley LitFest, which has marked it as a […]
Thackray Museum Awarded Strategic Investment Grant
Thackray Museum of Medicine has announced that The National Lottery Heritage Fund has generously awarded it a grant of £228,911, to continue its strategic development following a £4.6m re-development of the museum. The grant will begin a series of strategic interventions for the Museum, which will propel it forward and build on the museum’s ambitions […]
Macbeth: at Leeds Playhouse 5 – 23 March
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” For its restaging of Macbeth, Ash Hunter takes on the role of ambitious northern warrior Macbeth. Ash played Alexander Hamilton in the hit West End musical in 2018/19 and went on to star as Heathcliff in Emma Rice’s acclaimed production of Wuthering Heights at the National Theatre. […]
