Friday, 17th May 2024 at Leeds Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ New musical Here You Come Again is a fabulous, funny and full-hearted show which celebrates both the icon that is Dolly Parton and the importance of making hard choices to secure your own happiness. Kevin (Steven Webb) is hunkering down in his parents’ attic following a break-up... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 14th May 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Apparently, Pretty Woman the movie made $450 million at the box office back in the late eighties, and brought Gary Marshall and J.F. Lawton great acclaim. Seemingly having lost none of its appeal, the pair’s work is now strutting its stuff on stages as Pretty Woman... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 30th April 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Come From Away is an extraordinary true story told with style and humour in this big-hearted and award-winning musical. Hearing that 9/11 provides the backdrop for this tale may seem a bit jarring (that was certainly my reaction before seeing it in the West End many... Continue Reading →
Friday, 19th April 2024 at Leeds Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nicki Davy writes and stars in this very personal show - Eva - inspired by a box of items her mother found in the attic of Granny Ilse - Eva’s sister. This box proved a treasure trove and prompted historical research into the life of Eva Metzger... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 18th April 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kay Mellor’s The Syndicate has made its way from screen to stage with this play, with daughter Gaynor Faye directing in her late mother’s honour. Based on Series 1 of the hit TV series, this show follows a number of ordinary folk trying to make ends... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 9th April 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Kirsty M Drop the Dead Donkey, the award-winning 1990s satirical comedy has been reimagined for a 2024 audience in the stage play Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening! Old enough to remember the original show, I went with my Gen Z daughter, unsure whether the play... Continue Reading →
March 2024 Award winning artistic director Jenny Sealey is bringing her acclaimed solo show Self-Raising to the Bramall Rock Void at Leeds Playhouse this week (22-23 March). She has spent a lifetime championing stories by deaf and disabled artists and has been artistic director of Graeae Theatre Company, which puts access at the heart of... Continue Reading →
Friday, 8th March 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Of all of Shakespeare’s plays, Romeo and Juliet is one of the most popular choices for adaptations across art forms. The tale of “star-crossed lovers” captures imaginations in ways that few other stories have - and Sergei Prokofiev’s music is a glowing example. Shakespeare’s central threads... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 28th February 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World? There are many of them, and in Chris Bush’s fun-loving adaptation of Kate Pankhurst’s fabulous book, we meet a generous selection of these extraordinary women. It’s a pretty classic set-up: schoolgirl Jade (Georgia Grant-Anderson) has lost her group at... Continue Reading →
Saturday, 17th February 2024 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This latest show from Imitating the Dog offers a key departure from the company’s usual approach: having no live cameras on stage. It does however maintain a characteristic cinematic quality in a bold and intriguing production. Billed as “inspired by” Mary Shelley’s brilliant novel, this take from... Continue Reading →
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