The Nutcracker: at Leeds Grand Theatre from 29 November to 10 December
Northern Ballet’s enchanting festive favourite The Nutcracker, returns to Leeds Grand Theatre this November following its hugely successful run last year with multiple sell-out performances. The story of Clara and her wooden Nutcracker doll is much more than it seems. As the clock strikes midnight, she finds herself being whisked away on a magical adventure through a winter wonderland […]
Inaugural Bradford Opera Festival to Première on 23 November
Poet, broadcaster and playwright Ian McMillan has adapted Rossini’s The Barber of Seville into Yorkshire dialect – and it’s the opening event of the inaugural Bradford Opera Festival: opera in Bradford, for Bradford – and in a very Bradford way. Editor’s note: Our classical music writer Tom Tollet will be reviewing. This should be good! […]
Yorke Dance Project: World Premiere at Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre on 23 November
Yorke Dance Project presents California Connections: Three Pioneering Women – a celebration of choreographers Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Bella Lewitzky. Yorke Dance Project, the contemporary ballet company run by Yolande Yorke-Edgell, will give the world premiere of a new mixed bill, California Connections: Three Pioneering Women, at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds […]
In Conversation With The Enormous Crocodile Directors Emily Lim and Toby Olié
The world premiere of The Enormous Crocodile is at Leeds Playhouse on 2 December until 6 January. Ten puppet-makers spent three months creating twenty puppets for the Roald Dahl classic. Here, we bring you images from behind the scenes from puppetry designer Toby Olié’s workshop as the co-directors Toby and Emily Lim tell us about […]
The Gifting: at Versa Studios Holbeck in December
The final chapter of LEEDS 2023, a magical new show by Kully Thiarai and Alan Lane at Leeds’ Versa Studios, on 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 & 31 December Following a year of exceptional cultural experiences, including The Awakening, Making A Stand, The WOW Barn, Moon Palace, events in all 33 wards of Leeds […]
