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Comedy Leeds Music Theatre West Yorkshire22nd Mar 2023

Sister Act at Leeds Grand Theatre

After a break in proceedings I returned to the fold to see the touring production of Sister Act. As it happens, the musical has also had an enforced hiatus so we both resumed normal service together. Actually, it wasn’t quite normal service for either of us as the show began, and ended, 20 minutes late…

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Classical Leeds Music Opera Theatre West Yorkshire20th Feb 2023

Ariadne Auf Naxos from Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre

In the programme the director, Radula Gaitanou, says she wishes that opera were more like football, with the audience not knowing the outcome until the end. Well, she certainly walked the walk in this production, turning it into a game of two halves and, not until the penalty shoot-out at the end, do we find…

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Comedy Leeds Theatre West Yorkshire17th Feb 2023

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at Leeds Playhouse

Some months ago a good friend of mine asked if I had seen the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. I replied in the negative and he said that he highly recommended it so, as we seem to share the same taste in quite a few things, especially red wine, I caught it the next…

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Leeds Theatre West Yorkshire16th Feb 2023

Henry V at Leeds Playhouse

It had to happen, I have at last seen a modified version of a Shakespeare play that I actually enjoyed. Although I still feel that, if the Trade Descriptions Act applied to the theatre, saying that what we saw was written by the Bard of Avon would be pushing it to the limits, the way…

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Art Exhibitions Leeds West Yorkshire14th Feb 2023

Samra Mayanja: The Living and the Stale at The Tetley, Leeds

Samra Mayanja is an artist of Ugandan descent and this is her first major solo exhibition. It is amazingly varied with video installations, drawings, photographs, sculptures and reconstructions of significant settings. During the preview night the artist undertook an interview with The Tetley Artistic Director, Bryony Bond, during which she said that she was searching…

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Leeds Music Theatre West Yorkshire10th Feb 2023

RIOPY at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds

RIOPY, birth name Jean-Phillippe Rio-Py, like a lot of the performers I have seen at Howard Assembly Room, was someone I had not heard of before my visit. He is a French pianist and composer who has the most amazing back story. He was raised in a secular cult in France and taught himself to…

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Exhibitions Leeds West Yorkshire7th Feb 2023

Private Parts at Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds

I remember reading the volume of Spike Milligan’s memoirs which dealt with his army service during the war. It was called Adolph Hitler: My Part In His Downfall. The main reason it sticks in my mind is that I was banned by my wife from reading it whilst she was watching TV as I would…

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Classical Leeds Music Opera Theatre West Yorkshire6th Feb 20236th Feb 2023

The Cunning Little Vixen at Leeds Grand Theatre

I think that I have discovered a new hero, Leoš Janáček, the man responsible for the work currently being performed by Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre. He has made my list of good guys on two counts; firstly he has broken the mould when it comes to the practice of anthropomorphism, and secondly, he…

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Dance Events Leeds Theatre West Yorkshire3rd Feb 2023

Phoenix Dance Theatre Double Launch Event

On Friday 27th January Phoenix Dance Theatre held a presentation to celebrate the first 40 years of the company. Being good Yorkshire folk they opted to get value for money by highlighting two brilliant announcements at once. Although the company was set up in 1981, the 40th Anniversary Tour began in November 2021 and so…

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Leeds Music Theatre West Yorkshire27th Jan 2023

Ordinary Lives: The Merlin Shepherd Quartet at Howard Assembly Room

Last year’s concert held to mark Holocaust Memorial Day was focussed on the works of three composers who perished in one of the most reviled concentration camps during the Second World War, this year the spotlight shifted to the lives of ‘ordinary’ people – the clue is in the title. Although the object was to…

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