Leeds Playhouse is thrilled to announce MakeBeth, by award-winning playwright Hannah Khalil – a brand-new, interactive craft-a-long retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, created for families and young audiences aged 7+ and brought to life entirely with the recycled cardboard magic of Sam Wilde. This exciting make-along production […]
Exciting new behind-the-scenes images show the incredible cast and creative team of Small Island exploring the unforgettable story by multi award-winning author Andrea Levy in a powerful new production by Olivier Award-winning director Matthew Xia, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson. A Leeds Playhouse, Birmingham […]
“…a hauntingly beautiful adaptation of the classic tale…” Snow White retold by Carol Ann Duffy, Leeds Playhouse By Sean Sable When I was a kid, the other children watched Disney films and rooted for characters like Ariel and Jasmine. I rooted […]
Leeds Playhouse is thrilled to announce a spectacular festive treat for 2026: Dr. Seuss’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical is coming to town! Following its record-breaking success on Broadway, this brand-new UK production promises to whisk audiences away to the whimsical world […]
“…for those who enjoy a little nightmare in their dreams…” A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Leeds Playhouse By Sean Sable Take Thomas Kidd’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, throw in Kubrick’s clinical white spaces, add Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, […]
Internationally renowned dance-circus company Motionhouse return to Leeds in March with its latest breathtaking production, Hidden. Thought provoking and poignant, Hidden powerfully blends gravity defying dance with thrilling circus feats, exploring how, in an increasingly divided world, light can emerge from darkness in […]
Leeds Playhouse announces the exciting new cast for Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham’s Punch, a true story of hope, humanity, and the possibility of change. This Nottingham Playhouse production, which will also play at Theatre Royal Plymouth, enjoyed its world premiere at Nottingham Playhouse in […]
Meet the exciting cast and creative team joining director Matthew Xia on an unforgettable journey from the sun-drenched shores of Jamaica to the cold, grey streets of 1940s London in Small Island, a powerful new portrayal of Andrea Levy’s multi award-winning novel, adapted for […]
TV star Sarah Parish narrates contemporary take on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Legendary northern dance company balletLORENT returns to Leeds Playhouse in February with a magical adaptation of a well-loved fairy tale featuring nine local schoolchildren. The dance theatre version of Snow White (★★★★ The Times […]
Julie Hesmondhalgh – star of ITV’s Broadchurch and Mr Bates Vs The Post Office – is set to join the Palestinian writer Sondos Sabra and readers including the Leeds poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan for a reading of diaries and poetry from Gazan writers at Leeds Playhouse on 5 February. Julie, […]
Leeds Playhouse has announced its first show of the Autumn/Winter 2026 working with pioneering theatre company, Headlong on a brand-new production of August Wilson’s Fences directed by award-winning Daniel Bailey (Red Pitch). This is a co-production with Leeds Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and HOME Manchester, and marks […]
A world premiere based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective is coming to the Courtyard Theatre at Leeds Playhouse as part of a major UK tour. Created by the team behind Blackeyed Theatre’s acclaimed productions of The Sign of Four and The Valley of Fear, Sherlock Holmes: […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which comes to the Quarry Theatre at Leeds Playhouse from 14 – 28 February, is the striking new production from Headlong’s Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan. The production shows that all plays, no matter their age or […]
In the darkness and terror of an airstrike on Gaza a Palestinian grandmother soothes the fears of her grandchildren by telling them a tale about a phoenix. It is the same story which her grandmother once told her. Perhaps also […]
Have you ever wondered what’s below the surface? Little M takes audiences on a deep dive reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid for anyone who feels like they’re swimming against the tide. Combining fantastical puppetry, magical transformations and spectacular dancing, this extraordinary coming-of-age […]
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