Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Now here is a useless fact about ABBA, only tenuously connected with this show. Before curtain-up, there was the usual reminder regarding mobile phones etc, before a trigger warning that the show contained platform boots and white lycra. The reason that they wore such outlandish outfits was not a fashion statement per se, but came…
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I approached this show with a degree of trepidation in that, although never having seen the film of the same name, I had read the blurb on Leeds Grand Theatre website in order to write my monthly theatre preview for Welcome To Leeds and discovered it to be aimed at the age demographic about half…
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Being an only child I tended to do a lot of reading and Enid Blyton was one of my first go-to authors. It is probably the Yorkshire influence that, whilst the other readers I knew were into The Famous Five books, I opted for The Secret Seven series. Buy 5 get 2 free! I was…
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After all the articles I have written about theatre you would have thought I had seen about everything, so did I, but here I was, leaving York Theatre Royal, munching on a piece of caraway bread that I had just seen been baked live on stage. The thing is that it wasn’t done during a…
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The stars have aligned this year to enable me to see both of Mikron’s 2026 productions at the beginning of their national tours. After Top Of The Wold, dealing with a mobile library serving East Yorkshire, we have this cheese-based offering set in the North of God’s Own County. Actually God played a big part…
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After seeing some, so called, ‘thrillers’ at Leeds Grand Theatre which have descended into farce, I was sceptical about this, but, as it has had successful runs at various theatres throughout the world, both in residence and on tour, I thought I would give it a shot. On balance I am pleased that I did,…
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I must be in a minority here as the 90s band, Steps, didn’t really register on my radar. I had obviously heard of them as they were regularly in the news for breaking up and getting back together, but their music seemed to be a bit bland, produced mainly to make money whilst providing youngsters…
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The Constant Wife is the name of a play, or, to be more accurate, it is the name of two plays. The first is the one the audience bought tickets for at the Grand Theatre and the second is the fictional drama which was the intended destination for a night out, enabling Constance Middleton (Kara…
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Now that all the children’s television programmes are shown on dedicated channels I don’t stumble across them any more, so no getting sidetracked by Horrible Histories, which is one of the best, funniest and most informative things available for any age group. I mention that because Planet Omar, although aimed at the age range 7+,…
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Top of the Wold kicks off the 55th season of productions from Mikron, who will be touring the country from their base on a narrowboat called Tyseley. It chugs along waterways stopping at various locations allowing them to set up stage and perform one of the two musical plays written especially for the year. 2026…
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Tyke It To The Limit 