‘Stick Man’: A Christmas Must See at Leeds Playhouse
Reading books to children can be an absolute delight. It can also be a form of slow torture if they pull out the same book for the 50th time in a row or they choose one of the many stories that make you wonder how they ever got published. Luckily, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler […]
Local Artist’s Work Part of Leeds Craft Centre and Design Gallery 40th Anniversary Exhibition
Martin Smith’s sculptural automata piece ‘Applause’ is an apt inclusion in the celebratory exhibition at Leeds Craft Centre and Design Gallery. The Centre and its Home exhibition surely deserve a round of applause for 40 years of providing the public with some fascinating, informative and truly impressive displays of skill and creativity. Martin himself first […]
South Pacific: A Treat for Leeds Theatregoers
South Pacific is one of the all-time Broadway classics, featuring a dazzling score from Rodgers & Hammerstein. A show that demands a large cast, glitzy set and a full orchestra, it’s a real treat to have a production of this magnitude brought to our own Leeds Grand. In a theatre world of juke-box musicals and […]
The World of Independent Publishing
Ink Slingers – The First Farsley Literature Festival, included this panel event on its programme, so Sunday 30 October saw me at The Constitutional, a club offering comedy, theatre, spoken word and music. The independent publishing event brought together five panellists, each one a representative of independent publishers across the North of England, namely And […]
Christoph Wilibad Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice – Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre
Just when one might have thought it safe for Hades to return to business as usual, here comes another operatic Orpheus wandering its depths in search of his missing wife. Unlike Opera North’s previous venture, the fascinating and rather wonderful collaboration with South Asian Arts, where the exoticisms of Monteverdi and Indian classical music blossomed […]
