Ben Crick: The Last Machine Breaker on 10 and 11 November at Mind The Gap Bradford
Touring Wednesday 12 November Skipton Town Hall; Saturday 15 November The Warehouse, Holbeck, Leeds and Sunday 16 November Marsden Mechanics, Huddersfield. Ben Crick’s new chamber opera draws parallels between the Luddite resistance to mechanisation inthe textile industry in the early nineteenth century and our own attitude to the evident encroachment of AI into our daily […]
The Gingerbread Man at The Carriageworks Theatre 6th to 9th November
Colourful and funny, this production has all the ingredients of a family show. There’s something special about watching young performers on the stage, and The Gingerbread Man, produced by Leeds Children’s Theatre at The Carriageworks, is a good example of how joyful theatre can be and how much young people can gain from being involved in […]
Dear England at Leeds Grand Theatre: A Play That Puts the Heart Back into Football
The National Theatre’s production of Dear England, written by James Graham and directed by Rupert Goold, brings football to the stage with surprising tenderness, humour and humanity, reminding us that the beautiful game isn’t just about goals, but is also about growth, teamwork and pride. At its core, Dear England follows Gareth Southgate’s real-life mission […]
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 […]
