Opera North The Big Opera Mystery at Leeds Grand Theatre Until 22 November
The proceedings were opened by Despina, alone on the stage of the Grand Theatre in Leeds. In a set rigged out as a police station, she addressed a mass of young children gathered in the stalls on a Saturday afternoon with their adults, telling them that her name was Despina, and that she was in […]
Light Night Leeds 22 and 23 October
This year, Light Night, one of the earliest light festivals in the country, celebrated twenty years of bringing light-based art and culture to the City. Light Night has grown in depth, variety and popularity over the years, with fifty art works this year on display across the City. The two-night festival now brings over 200,000 […]
The Great British Bake-Off Musical – A Charming, Warm Gem!
Over a decade has passed since the the viewing world was blessed with ‘The Great British Bake-Off’, yet it has never failed to enchant its audience. From muffins to shortbreads, custard tarts to Victoria sponge and the full gamut of emotion, every episode of every series has been a treasure. From the airing of the […]
La Bohème – Another Dynamic Revival From Opera North 18 October
La Bohème is usually a sure-fire bet for theatre companies around the world, a supremely popular opera with everlasting themes of young love, loss and grief driven by Giacomo Puccini’s extraordinary music. The plot was picked out of a sprawling mass of stories assembled by the novelist Henri Murger in the mid-nineteenth century. It generally […]
National Poetry Centre Launches New Creative Exchange Programme
Leeds played host to some of the most exciting voices in UK and Brazilian poetry on 8 October as the National Poetry Centre joined forces with Out of Many People to launch a groundbreaking international Creative Exchange Programme at Sound System: Music & Poetry of the Black Atlantic. The Creative Exchange Programme is designed to foster […]
