Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
At my time of life the only invitations I receive to social events are retirement parties, birthday bashes when someone has hit a year with a zero at the end and an unfeasibly large first digit, or funerals. Imagine my delight, therefore, when I was asked if I would like to go to a wedding.…
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Although the pantomimes and Christmas shows are over there is no reason for the younger theatregoers to feel neglected. Leeds Playhouse has a half-term treat in the guise of a play based on Raymond Briggs’ book, The Bear. The story begins one night when Tilly is fast asleep and a huge bear climbs into her…
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Green Eggs and Ham. No, not the latest environmentally friendly brunch fad but Opera North’s performance for all the family based on the Dr Seuss book of the same name. The performance lasts for 45 minutes and will be staged at Room 700, Leeds Central Library on 15th February at 11.00am and 2.00pm. The piece,…
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What more appropriate place and time could there be to stage Dr Korczak’s Example. This moving and powerful piece is not only the first production to be performed at Bramall Rock Void in Leeds Playhouse but also it is set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 and timed to coincide with National Holocaust Day. There…
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Night of the Living Dead must be the most over-analysed film in the history of cinema. Basically it is a cheaply made, badly acted picture with hardly any plot and an ending you could see coming a mile off, but please do not let this put you off going to see this production at Leeds…
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It is never too early to plan for the run up to Christmas especially so this year as from 24th November until 5th December the Grand Theatre is staging the hit musical Mamma Mia! The reason I am letting you know this early is that tickets go on general sale this Wednesday, 29th January and…
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Street Scene is described in the Daily Telegraph’s preview as being a musical but Kurt Weill insisted it was an opera. This production at the Leeds Grand Theatre treated it as being the latter. It is my humble opinion that this was a mistake. The work is based on Elmer Rice’s play of the same…
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Now that Christmas and New Year are over and most of us are back at work I am sure that we would love something to look forward to to take our minds off a dull January and give a warm glow. What is this I see? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No!…
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Having been through the gamut of Christmas events on offer in Leeds it was time to indulge in the New Year Festivities, albeit a couple of days early. I never turn down an invitation to see and hear the wonderful Orchestra of Opera North, if I am totally honest I rarely turn down any invitation,…
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On Sunday I went to the Relaxed Performance of Peter and the Wolf and The Snowman. Normally this would have been my idea of torture but I loved every minute of it. I had kindly been invited by Opera North to see the programme and decided that the 4.30pm conventional performance would be just the…
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Tyke It To The Limit 