Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Whoever compiles the schedule for productions at Leeds Playhouse played a blinder on Thursday night. For those of you who are not familiar with the venue, it comprises four spaces; Quarry, which is the largest auditorium, Courtyard, my favourite, a smaller one with the most comfortable seating, both in the upholstery and legroom departments, Bramall…
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I always find it odd watching the wonderful Mikron theatre company perform at this venue. Not because there is anything strange about either organisation – well, not much – but Mikron is a bunch of travelling performers who set up their stage in various venues, mostly using their trusty narrowboat, Tyseley, to get them around…
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I was not familiar with this work until I saw the Leeds Playhouse website, telling me that it had spawned a tv series, so I took a sneaky peek at the show on Netflix. Rather than start at Episode 1, which I thought would just be a scene setter, I skipped to the third one…
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Now here’s a trip down Memory Lane. I was taken by my mum and dad to see the film when it first came out and all I can remember was being bored! I have just looked it up and the release date is 1954, but it would have been a bit later than that by…
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As you may have gathered from the title, this show is based on the brilliant comedy series of the same name. It does, however, merit a Trigger Warning. If you get that, you will love the evening, if you don’t, you will still enjoy it, but there are an awful lot of ‘in’ jokes, both…
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If last week’s trip to the pantomime took me back to my first childhood, this one certainly appeals to my second. The jokes were far more risqué, with lots of double entendres but even more single entendres! The age guidance is 4+ although there is advice for those who are bringing younger tots, due to…
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I was looking forward to seeing this show, which I last saw in 2022, and wondered what someone else would do to it. As it happens it was basically the same production but with a few small changes. What hadn’t changed, however, was that the story is told in flashbacks, the opening scene depicting the…
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I don’t use a star system to grade the things I review. My reasoning for this is that the top rating would mean, should something come along which was palpably better than those to which I had allocated five stars, I could not do it justice. In 1999 the Jumeirah Burj Al Arab was so…
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The power of advertising never ceases to amaze me. There is a car dealership who used to, and maybe still does, run ads on TV, with an ear worm jingle which I can’t help but recall every time I see anything connected with this show. Their name is Evans Halshaw, so you too can suffer…
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What a brilliant way to get children into opera. My first experience of live classical music was back in the Sixties at grammar school, when the second form was herded into a building in Rossington Street, just opposite where the Merrion Centre stands today, and made to shut up and listen to a string quartet…
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Tyke It To The Limit 