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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Into the Woods, Opera North, West Yorkshire Playhouse by Graham Rickson

Opera North’s ongoing Ring isn’t taking up much of the chorus’s time, which presumably is one of the reasons that many of its members have decamped half a mile east to collaborate with…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:27AM
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Carousel, Leeds Grand Theatre by Graham Rickson

Feeling apprehensive about opera companies tackling Broadway musicals is understandable. So if you’re still wincing at the memory of Leonard Bernstein’s excruciating 1980s recording of W…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:00AM
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Angus, Thongs and Even More Snogging, West Yorkshire Playhouse by Graham Rickson

As an evening out, Angus is about as nutritious as the midget gems dispensed by one of the heroine’s confidantes (and offered in heaps to the audience waiting in the foyer). Directed by Ry…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:43AM
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Big Society!, Leeds City Varieties by Graham Rickson

You approach the theatre via a cobbled side street and you’re harangued by a Salvation Army officer, pleading with you not to go inside this house of ill-repute. The City Varieties is an u…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10PM

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