The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) has announced that Great Western Railway Saint No. 2999 Lady of Legend will join its Annual Steam Gala celebrations from Thursday 23rd until Sunday 26th September. Lady of Legend joins LNER A1 No. 60163 Tornado, courtesy of The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, and LMS 8F No. 48305, courtesy of […]
York Theatre Royal should be applauded by choosing a play for its re-opening that had its origins in North Yorkshire and encourages the audience to use their imagination. The Woman in Black is adapted from Scarborough born Susan Hill’s novel of the same name and its first performance was at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in […]
Lush’s best selling Sleepy range is going on tour, bringing a Sleepy shoppable experience to a location near you. Offering visitors the opportunity to connect with the best selling Sleepy collection along with providing Sleepy exclusives, Christmas sneak peeks and a mindfulness installation. The tour will be visiting The Trinity Centre on Saturday 18 September from […]
The world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell comes to York Theatre Royal from 30 September to 2 October as part of a UK tour. This Dance Theatre event explores the underbelly of 1930s London life where ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in […]
The season will open with Kenneth Tindall’s Casanova at Leeds Grand Theatre. This sumptuous ballet hasn’t been seen on stage since 2017, although it has enjoyed success with TV broadcast on Sky Arts and on demand via Digital Theatre. Tindall’s first full-length work, Casanova takes us into the heart and mind of one of the […]
Leeds Dance Partnership have announced their first city wide open day for dance. Taking place on Sunday 19 September, 11am 4pm, the Leeds Dance Open Day will see leading dance venues in the city region open their doors for an exciting day of over 50 free activities, workshops and tours. Venues include Northern Ballet Phoenix […]
London’s smash-hit musical comedy Waitress finds A Soft Place To Land at Leeds Grand Theatre next week from Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 September. Brought to life by a ground-breaking, female-led creative team by the Grammy Award-winning Sara Bareilles (Love Song, Brave) a book by acclaimed screenwriter Jessie Nelson (I Am Sam) and direction by […]
Musical theatre star and television presenter Brenda Edwards will star as Motormouth Maybelle in the UK and Ireland tour of Hairspray. Comedy legend Norman Pace will play Wilbur Turnblad alongside West End leading man Alex Bourne as Edna Turnblad when Hairspray arrives at the Alhambra Theatre later on Monday 13 September. It’s Baltimore 1962, where […]
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre in Leeds has announced a new season of dance that will reopen the theatre for the first time since March 2020. DeNada Dance Theatre returns on 12 October 2021 to open the season with Mariposa. A transgender retelling of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, this new dance-drama from Artistic Director […]
Two centuries of captivating stories about the many people, places and objects that helped shape the city of Leeds have been brought together for an historic new exhibition. Leeds City Museum is celebrating two hundred years of the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection, from its origins with the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society to being […]