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Leeds is home to a number of modern and historic theatres. Highly recommended is a visit to the Grand Theatre and the newly refurbished City Varieties. The West Yorkshire Playhouse and Carriageworks are two of the most recent additions to the Leeds Theatre scene.

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Northern Ballet Beauty and the Beast review

Written by Louisa Parker

Beauty and the Beast at Leeds Grand Theatre. Photo: Bill Cooper. My young son is a fairly nifty mover when strutting his stuff to the Michael Jackson Wii game, but he’s never taken a dance class in his life. However, he has developed the ability to balance on one leg for quite a long time due to his...

The Good Old Days are Back at City Varieties

Written by Richard Smyth

Inside the magnificent looking City Varieties The City Varieties Music Hall isn’t the first theatrical celebrity to reach ‘a certain age’ and decide to have a major facelift. But most don’t wait until they’re 144 years old – and most facelifts don’t take two-and-a-half years to finish....

Written by Dick Bonham

Inside the impressive City Varieties Theatre in Leeds continues to go from strength-to-strength. Putting together my picks of the spring and summer seasons it’s clear that all the venues in the city have raised their game over the past few years. There’s a terrific range and variety of work on offer,...

Written by Richard Smyth

Inside the Howard Assembly Room. Photo credit: Richard Moran On one side of New Briggate stands a gaudy slew of fried-chicken and kebab outlets. On the other side, in stark contrast, stands the dramatic façade of the Grand Theatre, a fifty-metre-long array of Gothic arches and Romanesque flourishes...

Written by Richard Smyth

The West Yorkshire Playhouse is one of the great success stories of Leeds’ cultural scene. It’s earned an international reputation for its productions of works such as Othello and John Ford’s ‘Tis A Pity She’s A Whore. But viewed in the context of Leeds’s theatrical history, the Playhouse...

Written by Carol Ferndale

Prior to 1771 the only chance of seeing a bit of theatre in Leeds was when strolling players visited and performed in the pubs, but then Leeds got its first theatre, and the city has never looked back since. Here is a look at the theatres in Leeds. West Yorkshire Playhouse The West Yorkshire Playhouse...

Written by Kahla Mayhew

So, you’ve spent the day basking in the numerous attractions the city has to offer: you’ve shopped ‘til you dropped; educated yourself at the Art Gallery or Leeds City Museum; or maybe just dressed up like a superhero and gotten absolutely blind drunk participating in the Otley Run. What to do...

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