Theatre

There’s a wide selection of children’s shows around the region this festive season. Theatre correspondent Nick Ahad reports.

So, 2016 continues to distinguish itself as possibly one of the worst twelve-month periods in recent memory.

By Liz Coggins

Chicago remains the second longest running musical on Broadway and it’s easy to understand why

HE WAS the ultimate Barnsley lad made good.

As Imelda Staunton calls for sweets to be banned in auditoriums, Nick Ahad sets down his own set of rules for audience members.

Commissioned to write a play for children about the First and Second World Wars, Theatre correspondent Nick Ahad learnt a lot from his target audience.

By Julie Marshall

When The Boys in the Band was premiered in 1968, the year before the Stonewall riots, the world was a different place.

By Yvette Huddleston

By Liz Coggings

It’s a daunting task to turn an award- winning film into a stage musical. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. In the case of Ghost the musical director Bob Tomson has achieved almost the impossible in a production that borders on brilliance.

The Carriageworks, Leeds

By Yvette Huddleston

Imagine If theatre company’s thought-provoking play, written by Leeds theatre maker Francesca Joy, explores a modern-day abusive relationship. Rosa (played by Joy) is a bright young woman preparing to leave her home city of Leeds and go off to university in London.

Mark Gatiss began his career with The League of Gentlemen at Bretton Hall and now he’s back on stage in Leeds. He speaks to Phil Penfold.

MAKING its only Yorkshire stop on a UK tour, this splendid production of Mary Poppins has flown in to the Alhambra – and it is a real treat.

By Chris Bond

Mark Gatiss is bringing a ground-breaking American play to Leeds next week. He spoke to Theatre corresponent Nick Ahad.

By Yvette Huddleston

Making its only Yorkshire stop on a UK tour, this splendid production of Mary Poppins flew in to the Alhambra last week – and it is a real treat.

Veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young, who has died at the age of 95, once held court for world leaders at a makeshift TV studio in Leeds.

The much-loved Mary Poppins has flown into the Bradford Alhambra. Theatre correspondnent Nick Ahad reports.

IT IS the simplest of actions but one that would spawn a thousand household arguments - and exactly 60 years ago, the arrival of ITV enabled viewers in Yorkshire to do it for the first time.