Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
After a quiet summer, it is all systems go for the end of the year. Again, there is the mixture of classics, innovative new productions, one-nighters and, of course, the Christmas Spectacular. So why don’t I just get on with it then. We begin, from 3rd-7th September in the Quarry, with Cluedo 2 which, I…
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Continuing my previews for the rest of the year it is the turn of probably the most famous venue in Leeds, The City Varieties Music Hall. As usual, it is hosting some of the best live performers currently on tour. Everything from music, comedy, personal appearances by well known personalities and miscellaneous to events such…
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Back in July I was invited to the World Premiere of the new blockbuster movie, The Story of Waddingtons. OK so it wasn’t at the Odeon Leicester Square and I wasn’t hounded by the paparazzi all evening, which was a pleasant change as I’m sick of having photographers pestering me to get out of the…
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You would have thought, that as they have been around for millennia, the cuts of meat from cattle would be the same now as they always were. Various types of roasting joints such as Brisket, Hind Lift, Silverside etc, drift into and out of fashion, as do steaks, but they have not fundamentally altered. In…
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This is the shortest preview I will be doing as the productions have fairly long runs rather than being one night stands – on points obviously – and then go on tour. The prime example is Romeo and Juliet, which I had the pleasure of attending in March but is still going strong now, and…
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Finally, it’s here, the biggest board game in town, in fact the city IS the board game. From 27th July you can not only play Monopoly but also become a part of it. The notoriously dodgy areas of London, such as Park Lane and Mayfair, have been replaced by the far more upmarket Vicar Lane…
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When I was invited to a 10th Birthday Party I was taken aback, as the ones I am usually asked to nowadays invariably begin with a digit no lower than 6. Still, it was ages since I had jelly and cream, or would it be a Happy Meal at the Golden Arches, so I said…
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It is not as if we needed an excuse to go to the magnificent Leeds Grand Theatre, apart from the programme of events, but this September sees its reopening following a makeover, and I can’t wait to see how the place has changed. The re-opening date is 5th September with a series of one night…
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Now that the weather has at last turned warmer and the sun has come out, our attention obviously turns to the autumn and winter. As the next few weeks are a bit of a fallow period for a few of the established venues, I thought that I would give you the heads up on what…
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There are two consolations to make up for the end of the lunchtime concert series at Dewsbury Town Hall; the first is that the next one begins on 11th September, so only a month’s off-season, a bit like the football and the second, that the big finale was the incredible sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun. Since…
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Tyke It To The Limit 