Arts - theatre, art, classical, opera and dance in Leeds
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Preview Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Leeds Grand Theatre
Gauche geezer gets geisher, then gives her grief (Read more...)
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Preview Glamourie Exhibition at Project Space Leeds
Contemporary northern art talent set to impress at new exhibition (Read more...)
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Interview Phill Jupitus
Simon O'Hare meets the Never Mind The Buzzcocks star as he takes a… (Read more...)
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Feature Northern Art Prize
Sophie Haydock profiles the candidates for the prestigious honour this time around (Read more...)
Art Events in Leeds this week
- The Many Faces of Battenberg-Cartwright
Today - Fri 10th Feb 2012
@ Bowery Visual Arts and Cafe, Leeds - Optimum Exposure
Today - Fri 10th Feb 2012
@ Bowery Visual Arts and Cafe, Leeds
- Winter Abbey Tours
Today
@ Fountains Abbey, Ripon
News Competition for Leeds Photography Students to Display Work in City Centre Hotel
Winning work set to go on display at Park Plaza's newly refurbished City Square hotel
Photography students at Leeds College of Art have been given the opportunity by Park Plaza Hotels to permanently display their work in the company’s newly refurbished hotel in the city.
The competition has seen more than 700 entries whittled down to just 78, with the talented photography students vying for the chance to have their pictures adorn the Park Plaza hotel on City Square, which is undergoing a £2m refurbishment.… Read more...
Preview St Peter's Singers perform Bach's Mass In B Minor
The Leeds Parish Church-based chamber choir bring a baroque masterpiece to Halifax Minster on 3rd March
Bach’s B Minor Mass is one of the supreme masterpieces of the Baroque, indeed of any, era. Despite this, its exact purpose remains a monumental mystery. During his last decade, the composer had written the great works that would be his instrumental legacy: the Goldberg Variations (1741), The Art of Fugue (1742) and the Musical Offering (1747). To finish this sequence with a full setting of the High Mass, to… Read more...
Preview Michael Frayn Season at Sheffield Theatres
British literary heavyweight has a season dedicated to him in March at Sheffield Theatres
Michael Frayn has applied his intellect to just about every literary vehicle. The bibliography on his Wikipedia page dwarfs the text. He has mastered the novel, the memoir, the comic essay, the philosophical discourse, the translation (Chekhov, among others), the screenplay, the libretto, the dramatic handbook and, salient for our purposes, the one-act and the full-length play. It is his contribution to the dramatic forms that has brought the… Read more...
Preview New Season Dance in Leeds
A look at a busy couple of months ahead for dance in the city and beyond
With the inevitably cold months of February and March lying ahead, what better way to put a spring in your step than to check out what eclectic offerings the wonderful world of dance has in store this season.
Running from 9th to 18th February at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds, our first offering is Northern Ballet‘s Perpetual Motion which comprises four short dance pieces presenting ballet-goers… Read more...
Preview Wall Art Rockers at Cafe 164
Enjoy other-worldly modern art work at this Leeds city centre cafe
Art is meant to surprise and shock, delight and, at times, disturb. One style of art on show in Leeds this month blends all of the above: the innovative modern concept is described as "wall art for a digital generation".
The ultra-modern pieces blend art and technology seamlessly. Inspired by graphics, sci-fi, computer games and the latest technology, the works are printed digitally onto large pieces of acrylic the same… Read more...
Feature Opera North's Little Voices
Tom Goodhand attends a drama and music group designed for parents and their babies or toddlers in the wonderful Howard Assembly Room
Opera North has long been established as one of Leeds’ premier arts companies, and the opening of the Howard Assembly Room in January 2009 gave them a home, a venue that they can call their own. The room has acted in the past as a musical hall, a cinema and an adult cinema, before closing in the mid-80s until Opera North reopened it.
As a built-for-purpose venue which… Read more...










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