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 […]
Opera North: George Frideric Handel’s Susannah, an Artistic Triumph
Susannah is at Leeds Grand Theatre until 22 October, then touring Newcastle, Salford Quays and Nottingham until 21 November. Tom Tollet reviews. As both operatic composer and impresario in early eighteenth-century London, Handel faced anannual economic purgatory brought about by the decreed closure of places offering “frivolous”entertainment during Lent and Eastertide, which left his orchestra, […]
To Kill a Mockingbird — at Leeds Playhouse Until 4 October. Reviewed by Maria Forryan and Anne Guy
To Kill A Mockingbird – A Masterclass in Excellence. Maria Forryan Last night I saw To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee’s classic reimagined in Aaron Sorkin’s new play, directed with brilliance by Bartlett Sher. Performed at our very own Leeds Playhouse, this has to be one of the most powerful and accomplished productions I’ve […]
