Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Another visit to Howard Assembly Room. I love this place as it presents acts which are a little more niche, meaning that I would not normally get to see them. Most have been pleasant surprises but there have been some disappointments and, sadly, this was in the latter category. The evening began with a short…
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Another first for me, but in this case a most unwelcome one. This is the first time I have ever left the theatre before the end of a show, not because I wasn’t enjoying the production, far from it, but I have a medical condition, yes, another one, which, when it attacks, causes excruciating pain.…
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From Monday, 10th June until Sunday, 14th July, Bundobust are having a blast. Although ostensibly to mark the UEFA Euros 2024 it is a game of two halves as it is also their tenth anniversary. Where did that go? The theme of the menu is footy food so expect plenty of Tony Currie in different…
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After my first visit to see a full ballet, Romeo And Juliet, I was wondering whether they were all as good as that. Beauty And The Beast has convinced me that they probably are! Once again I was in awe of the performers, the orchestra and the creatives. Not being a regular ballet buff, I…
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Summer’s here – honest – so it is time for us to turn our attention to getting out and loading up (responsibly of course) on sunshine and al fresco dining, along with a bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure. Add to this the chance to check out one of the grooviest new areas…
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When I was younger – much younger – a Friday night out with a mate would mean proper bitter, pulled through a line with a gravity pump and having a head like clotted cream, followed by a walk home via the chippy. The nearest I got to a cocktail was a pint of mixed. How…
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Don’t panic, this headline doesn’t mean that Elon Musk has put in a bid to purchase the whole of the city we love, it is reference to the board game of that name. Although invented by Charles Darrow in 1933 in the USA, the British version was manufactured later that decade in Leeds by John…
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It is a couple of weeks since I went to this exhibition at the University of Leeds and in the interim it has attracted a lot of interest from experts in the field, not to mention enquiries from London museums. As I am still trying to come to terms with writing about art installations I…
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The May performance in the Lunchtime Concert Season at Dewsbury Town Hall comprised a violin and a piano playing half a dozen pieces of romantic music, as usual a mixture of the familiar and the obscure. Today, however, we had the privilege of being entertained by two of the upper echelon of musicians from the…
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We Leeds theatregoers are currently going through a purple patch insofar as shows are concerned. From the phenomenal Come From Away, with its cast of thousands, through Common Ground performed by four travelling players in a fish and chip restaurant, the best adaptation of a Nineties romcom in Pretty Woman and now Here You Come…
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Tyke It To The Limit 