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God/Head is great
May 11, 2012 – 10:31 am | No Comment
God/Head is great

Jaye Kearney – @Yorkshirebint – is left brutalised and yet hopeful by Chris Goode’s powerful new work God/Head.

You: The Player at WYP
May 4, 2012 – 1:09 pm | No Comment
You: The Player at WYP

Gabriella Swerling take a scary trip into the bowels of West Yorkshire Playhouse

Blagger in the heat
May 2, 2012 – 11:30 am | No Comment
Blagger in the heat

Paul Clarke talks to Rev star Miles Jupp about his new show Fibber in the Heat coming to City Varieties

That Oh Fuck Moment
April 30, 2012 – 4:27 pm | No Comment
That Oh Fuck Moment

Punters at WYP’s Transform Festival share their Oh Fuck Moments

The Real Thing
April 30, 2012 – 4:25 pm | No Comment
The Real Thing

Tom Stoppard’s ’80s masterpiece The Real Thing gets a long overdue revival at WYP.

Terror Tango
April 27, 2012 – 4:31 pm | No Comment
Terror Tango

Pat Rowe’s new play Jerusalem Tango is a tale of terror, tango and passion

Lucy over the horizon
April 26, 2012 – 10:09 am | No Comment
Lucy over the horizon

Paul Clarke checks out rising folk star Lucy Ward.

White Cloth Family
April 25, 2012 – 10:06 pm | No Comment
White Cloth Family

New work by renowned photographer Jocelyn Bain Hogg opens the impressive White Cloth Gallery

Say no to a mayor
April 25, 2012 – 5:20 pm | 2 Comments
Say no to a mayor

CV are organising a debate on whether we need a Mayor… Paul Clarke says no thanks

Love’s Labour’s Lost 2
April 20, 2012 – 2:03 pm | No Comment
Love’s Labour’s Lost 2

Guest blogger Gabriella Swerlings has a laugh at Love’s Labour’s Lost

Mitch Benn at City Varieties
April 19, 2012 – 8:49 am | No Comment
Mitch Benn at City Varieties

Music and satire from Mitch Benn at City Varieties

Transforming WYP
April 18, 2012 – 2:22 pm | No Comment
Transforming WYP

As Paul Clarke reveals it’s all change at West Yorkshire Playhouse as the Transform 12 team run riot. Prepared to be dazzled and challenged over the weekends of 19-22 and 26-28 April, and the good news is some of it is free.

The Family open White Cloth Gallery
April 18, 2012 – 10:20 am | No Comment
The Family open White Cloth Gallery

Paul Clarke finds out more about the first photographic show at the White Cloth Gallery

Record Store Day in Leeds, Saturday 21st April
April 16, 2012 – 11:31 pm | No Comment
Record Store Day in Leeds, Saturday 21st April

It’s time for music lovers to put their money where their mouths are on Record Store Day this Saturday

Car crash remakes
April 12, 2012 – 1:36 pm | 4 Comments
Car crash remakes

Paul Clarke sets a tough challenge to name a film remake that’s better than the original

Apply for New Writing Season at WYP
April 8, 2012 – 8:34 pm | No Comment
Apply for New Writing Season at WYP

West Yorkshire Playhouse are launching a New Writers Season and they want to hear from Culture Vultures

Captain Murderer and the Morecambe Mermaid
April 4, 2012 – 1:01 pm | No Comment
Captain Murderer and the Morecambe Mermaid

Paul Clarke finds some fishy buisness as Captain Murderer and the Morecambe Mermaid takes to the road.

Barrie’s Broadsides
March 30, 2012 – 8:36 am | No Comment
Barrie’s Broadsides

Paul Clarke talks to Barrie Rutter about 20 years of Northern Broadsides and Love’s Labour’s Lost at WYP

Metal Box in Dub
March 28, 2012 – 11:15 pm | 5 Comments
Metal Box in Dub

Paul Clarke takes a trip to Hebden Bridge to watch a punk legend make a comeback

Girls just want to have fun
March 28, 2012 – 10:13 am | No Comment
Girls just want to have fun

Paul Clarke has a bit of fun with the Calendar Girls

Brian Turner to launch Leeds food festival
March 23, 2012 – 3:03 pm | One Comment
Brian Turner to launch Leeds food festival

Yorkshire chef Brian Turner to launch hugely popular food festival

Travelling Light to the birth of film
March 22, 2012 – 1:54 pm | No Comment
Travelling Light to the birth of film

Sir Antony Sher takes on a trip back to the dawn of movies

Calendar Girls make last stand
March 21, 2012 – 12:17 pm | No Comment
Calendar Girls make last stand

Last ever visit of the naked fundraisers

You’ll like it, not a lot, but you will like it.
March 16, 2012 – 11:57 am | No Comment
You’ll like it, not a lot, but you will like it.

Paul Clarke has a trip down memory lane with 70s legend Paul Daniels

Have you got what it takes to join theatre land?
March 15, 2012 – 8:00 am | No Comment
Have you got what it takes to join theatre land?

West Yorkshire Playhouse issues a call to arms for budding theatre people…but you’d better be quick!

The Dubliners celebrate 50 years at the top
March 13, 2012 – 1:46 pm | No Comment
The Dubliners celebrate 50 years at the top

Folk Legends The Dubliners hit town to mark 50 years in the music biz.