From the producers of Hairspray and Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Shrek the Musical brings together a new creative team to re-imagine this award-winning Broadway and West End hit show for a new audience, featuring all the classic characters from the Oscar®-winning DreamWorks animated film and the iconic songs and story from David Lindsay-Abaire and […]
Love is a complicated business – and so is bringing a debut play to the stage. But writer and performer Alys Williams has successfully navigated both with her new play, The Light House, which brings love, light and hope to the Bramall Rock Void at Leeds Playhouse from 5-7 October. This autobiographical story of loving […]
The Rocky Horror show is coming to Bradford as part of its 50th anniversary tour from Monday 25 September to Saturday 30thSeptember. Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical celebrates 50 years of non-stop partying with this special anniversary production that continues to play a newly extended tour through 2023 to sell-out crowds. Since it […]
REVIEW: THE MOUSETRAP BY AGATHA CHRISTIE – LEEDS GRAND THEATRE When it opened in London in November 1952 Agatha Christie predicted The Mousetrap would only run for eight months, yet it has become the world’s longest running stage production at its London home. Back in the day before plays opened in London’s West End they […]
Coming to Leeds Millennium Square on 2nd and 3rd September as part of Year of Culture, Ancient Futures is a free outdoor show blending circus, storytelling, Sound System Culture – a cornerstone of Jamaican music – and West African folklore. Ancient Futures is built on a ‘super fiction’ created by writer Oneness Sankara that imagines […]
The longest running play in the world, The Mousetrap, will return to Leeds Grand Theatre as part of its 70th Anniversary tour. The genre-defining murder mystery, written by Agatha Christie, the world’s best-selling novelist of all time, premiered at Theatre Royal Nottingham in 1952 and toured the UK before opening in the West End where […]
Globally renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn will make a rare outing as an actor at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre in September. The author will be on stage playing the role of Jim in a rehearsed reading of his own play, Truth Will Out, which was due to be produced at the SJT in 2020, but was […]
The Olivier Award nominated stage production of The Tiger Who Came to Tea is coming to York Theatre Royal as part of a major UK tour for 2023, commemorating the centenary year of its beloved author, the late Judith Kerr OBE. A musical play adapted and directed by David Wood OBE, based on the classic […]
As a young child I remember on wet Sunday afternoons watching the black and white Hollywood musicals of the 30’s with my gran. I was always totally blown away by the sheer magic of it all – a magic that has been retained in the stage production of 42nd Street. Starting life as a novel […]
York Shakespeare Project is delighted to bring its popular Sonnets at the Bar back to the secret garden of The Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre, Blossom Street, from August 11-19. “The invitation is as warm as ever”, says this year’s director, Tony Froud. “On a summer’s evening, it has always proved a lovely experience. […]