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Gatsby’s Back – And YOU Are Part Of The Show!
It may not be Long Island New York, but London’s Davies Street in Mayfair harbours a secret of which Jazz Age novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald would be immensely proud.
Please check all dates with the venue before travelling as many theatres are currently closed.
Next Seven Days In The Arts (Mon 18th Oct - Mon 25th Oct)
Grand Opera House, York
The Play That Goes Wrong
Lost In Music - One Night at the Disco
Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain
Leeds Playhouse
JITNEY
Theatre by the Lake
Home I'm Darling
York Theatre Royal
Crafty Tales
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Princess and the Pea
Tahiti In Leeds
Richard Trinder
Editor
Sandra Piques Eddy as Dinah
Under the baton of Antony Hermus the Orchestra of Opera North has delivered an electrifying evening of Bernstein music at The Grand in Leeds. From the gloriously sad domestic drama of Trouble in Tahiti to the passion and relentless energy of the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, the orchestra is, frankly, superb.
4:13 PM 17th October 2021
Experiments In Creative Collaboration: Dovetailing Responses In Ilkley In November
Dovetailing Responses, an exhibition combining film, music and mobile sculpture with visual arts, poetry, dance, live music and an interactive soundscape, will take place at the Manor House in Ilkley from 4th to 7th November. The exhibition will seek to evolve into several resonating layers of interaction.
12:37 PM 17th October 2021
Gateways Festival Reveals Event Format For 2022
Ahead of the early bird ticket launch on 22nd October. Gateways Festival has revealed next year’s format when it returns to Aireville Park, Skipton on the 22nd – 24th July 2022. Friday 22nd July will see an open air classical music event as Gateways present The Great Yorkshire Dales Proms.
3:09 PM 17th October 2021
The Return Of Adele - Was It Worth The Wait?
Graham Clark
Features Writer
If you didn’t already know after the hive of publicity this week - Adele has returned with a new single - Easy On Me. Is the hype bigger than the song? The track is a typical Adele ballad led by a piano that will fit easily into her existing back catalogue.
12:00 PM 17th October 2021
Classical CD Review: The Classical Piano Concerto Georg Benda
The Classical Piano Concerto Georg Benda (1722 1795) Howard Shelley (piano) London Mozart Players.
8:52 AM 17th October 2021
Album Review: Barbara Pravi - On n'enferme pas les oiseaux
Barbara Pravi's true introduction to the international stage arrived earlier this year when she proved a Bookies' favourite in the r…
4:32 AM 16th October 2021
Paloma Faith Is Touring
Double platinum and BRIT award-winning artist Paloma Faith will embark on a huge UK summer tour in 2022 – including a show at Halifax’s The Piece Hall.
4:01 AM 16th October 2021
007 Crowned UK’s Favourite Film Franchise
The James Bond movie series has proved it truly has a ‘license to thrill’ after being named the UK’s favourite big screen franchise, according to new national research revealed today*.
4:00 AM 16th October 2021
The Underdogs – Artwork From Beyond The Settle Graveyard Project
Teresa at work
Perhaps appropriately for a period that covers Halloween, the new exhibition at Gallery on the Green in Settle, which runs from October 17 to December 11, features works created by local illustrator Teresa Gorman as her contribution to the fascinating Settle Graveyard Project.
9:23 AM 15th October 2021
Now Disco Classics - Boogie Nights (Now Music)
Graham Clark
Features Writer
It’s time to get your groove on with this huge selection of disco classics. With 87 floor fillers spread over 4 CD’s there is something here to suit every party playlist. ABBA start the party off with Dancing Queen, the track that somehow brings tears to many a disco lovers eyes.
10:44 AM 14th October 2021
Exhibition: Henry Moore: Configuration
David J Markham
Painter, Arts Critic, Photographer
It’s always a pleasure to return to the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. The building, located on the Headrow with its polished granite fascia, is both minimal and strikingly cool.
2:26 PM 13th October 2021
Award-Winning Author to Judge National Children's Writing Competition
Michael Morpurgo
Award-winning War Horse author Michael Morpurgo is to judge a children’s creative writing competition as part of Yorkshire Festival of Story (YFOS 21), an online event running from 12th to 28th November. Children from across the UK are challenged to write a 750-word fairy tale that features a tree or trees.
12:03 PM 13th October 2021
Review: Test Signal Edited By Nathan Connolly
Test Signal, co-published by Dead Ink Books and Bloomsbury, is an anthology of contemporary short stories produced by writers based in the north.
10:55 AM 13th October 2021
'The World Of Reality Has Its Limits; The World Of Imagination Is Boundless' : Interview With Kate Lycett
As an inveterate maverick, I gravitate towards that which eschews normative convention, a trait which is especially true in respect of my aesthetic predispositions.
9:19 AM 13th October 2021
Poem Of The Week: 'That I Could' By Jane Clarke
That I could That I could take away from him these long days in the hospital, the digging for a vein in his arm, the drip that stops him sleeping, the pain that makes him whisper, Jesus Christ, oh, Jesus Christ. That I could take him back to his cobblestones and barn, his rooks in the birch trees, his nettles and ditches, limestone and bog.
6:20 PM 12th October 2021
Cliff Richard – Still Wired For Sound In Manchester
Sir Cliff might be the only artist to have set a UK chart record by being the first to have had a top 5 album in eight consecutive decades, but whether you like him or not, it would have been hard not to be impressed with Cliff Richard at his sold out show in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
4:00 PM 12th October 2021
Handel Amadigi English Touring Opera
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
English Touring Opera decamped to York Theatre Royal last night for a performance of Handel's rarely performed magical opera Amadigi. With all the ingredients for a fine performance: excellent cast, great music, love tangled plot and a wonderful set, Amadigi delighted the audience.
8:21 AM 12th October 2021
Ferens Art Gallery To Be Turned Into Giant Canvas This October Half Term
The Lion at Home, Rosa Bonheur
The Ferens Art Gallery will turn one of its walls into a huge canvas this half term so that families can create a giant jungle gallery, inspired by one of Ferens’ most-loved paintings. As part of this year’s Big Draw, Hull-based street art collective Spray Creative will create a 2-metre-high spray paint version of one of Ferens’ most popular paintings, Rosa Bonheur's The Lion at Home.
8:32 PM 11th October 2021
Flattening The Curve: By Degrees - David Tait
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
The total number of Covid deaths recorded in China as at 3rd October – 4636 - might look unrealistic at first glance.
7:35 PM 9th October 2021
Classical CD Review: Regnart - Missa Christ ist erstanden & Other Works
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
Regnart: Missa Christ is erstanden & Other Works Cinquecento Ranaissance Vokal. Missa Christ ist erstanden; Missa Freu dich, du werthe Christheneit; Maria fein, du klarer schein; Rühmbt alle Werck deß Herren; Wann ich nur dich hab.
12:48 PM 9th October 2021
B Is For Boat: Orphans Of The Storm By Celia Imrie
A trip to Waterstones the other weekend and a browse around the ‘new fiction’ table was just the tonic, with Autumn days looming. There was plenty of choice and one of the books I selected was Orphans of the Storm, partly because it was written by Celia Imrie whom I love on screen, and partly because it was based on one of the many true stories from the Titanic.
7:33 AM 9th October 2021
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, Voted The Greatest Poem Ever Penned
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, better known as ‘shall i compare thee to a summer’s day’ is voted the greatest poem ever penned
4:33 AM 9th October 2021
Today Is Bookshop Day
Celebrating bookshops big and small, Bookshop Day is the annual reminder that bookshops are so much more than just places selling books. With Christmas fast approaching, the Booksellers Association is encouraging customers to “Shop Early, Shop Local” this autumn, and to start thinking about their Christmas shopping earlier.
3:58 AM 9th October 2021
Roger Taylor Reigns Supreme In York
As the songwriter for many of Queen’s biggest hits such as A Kind of Magic, Radio Ga Ga and These Are The Days of our Lives, Roger Taylor is not just the drummer in Queen but also a distinctive vocalist besides being an accomplished songwriter.
10:28 AM 6th October 2021
Interview With Chris M. L. Burleigh
Paul Spalding-Mulcock
Features Writer
Chris M. L. Burleigh
Poetry, like any form of literature speaks to us through many voices, its polyphonic diversity made all the more potent by dint of its refusal to be corralled, or reductively diminished by banal literary conventions. As such, poets are seldom psychocentric, often seeking to express their idiosyncratic responses to life unfettered by prescriptivism.
6:38 PM 5th October 2021
Interview: Bootleg Beatles
Graham Clark
Features Writer
The Bootleg Beatles are going out on tour again this autumn. The shows in this run will feature all the hits and more. There will also be a special set dedicated to songs that the Beatles played in their famous 1969 rooftop concert, to celebrate long awaited release of the new Peter Jackson Beatles documentary The Beatles: Get Back.
8:39 AM 5th October 2021
National Tour Of A Magical Handel Rarity Marks English Touring Opera’s Return To Live Performance
English Touring Opera returns to the stage with a new production of Handel’s “magic opera” Amadigi, with performances at York Theatre Royal on 11 and 12 October, as part of a UK tour.
7:13 PM 4th October 2021
Art And Music In Harmony At Lancaster Exhibition
Artists inspired by music and musicians who are also skilled artists will show their work in Lancaster this October. The Art of Music is the second time that King Street Arts (formerly known as King St Studios) have presented an exhibition coinciding with Lancaster Music Festival. The exhibition opens on October 13, the day before the Festival, and runs until October 25.
10:28 AM 4th October 2021
Becky Hill Finds Her Voice In Leeds
Think of any of the big dance tracks from the last few years and chances are that Becky Hill will be singing lead vocals on the song. The former winner of TV’s The Voice has carved herself a name as being one of the dance music’s hottest properties.
8:24 PM 3rd October 2021
Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited In Bradford
If you happen to be a Genesis fan there is a lot to be happy about at the moment, the Last Domino? Tour featuring the three original members of the band is criss-crossing the country at the same time as Steve Hackett’s Genesis Revisited tour. Hackett was the guitarist in Genesis from 1971 to 1977 before going on to have a successful solo career.
9:39 AM 2nd October 2021
Film Review: No Time To Die
We asked father and daughter duo Paul and Emma Samuelson to review No Time To Die. Read what they thought - although spoiler alert! Paul says: No Time To Die? It's standard Bond in so much as the world needs saving from a dastardly plot, the body count rises throughout and of course there are gadgets, fast cars, beautiful women and dodgy one liners.
5:00 AM 2nd October 2021
Classical Music CD Review: British Solo Cello Music Steven Isserlis
British Solo Cello Music Steven Isserlis cello. Mishka Rushdie Momen Piano (tracks 15 – 17) Britten: Tema ‘Sacher’; Cello Suite No 3; Themes used in the Cello Suite: Mournful song ‘Under the little apple tree; Autumn; Street song ‘The grey eagle’; Kontakion ‘Grant repose’; Walton Theme for a prince; Passacaglia; Gardner Partita for solo cello 3.
4:30 AM 2nd October 2021
Poem Of The Week: 'Bertram' By Nigel Forde
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
Nigel Forde
Bertram Helped home again and left in the dark By the cold fireplace, the foxed mirror, He leans against the mantelpiece and dribbles; Bellows at headlights that reel a slither of windows Across the ceiling-spin until the neighbours Thump another flake of plaster from the walls. The light has gone on the stairs. The sink Is larded, the scrap-bucket crawls. A bath tap drips.
3:50 AM 2nd October 2021
The Reytons – A Landslide Victory In Leeds
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Yorkshire band The Reytons continue to grow in stature and popularity; the last time I saw them was nearly 2 years ago in Doncaster on a cold, wintry late January evening though the energy and heat that they generated from the stage was enough to thaw out any disbeliever. Since then a few beards have been grown by band members and the fanbase has grown even bigger and older.
5:59 PM 1st October 2021
‘Very Few Of US Are What We Seem’: The Supper Club Murders By Victoria Dowd
Paul Spalding-Mulcock
Features Writer
The words of Agatha Christie purloined from the Queen of Crime’s, The Man in the Mist seem both apposite and minatory when considering the marvellously macabre, Gothically spiced crime novels given to us by Victoria Dowd. Wickedly amusing badinage ricocheting between the less than convivial members of our familiar mishpocha, evince Dowd’s affection for Oscar Wilde.
9:03 PM 30th September 2021
The Northern Voice
Well regarded names from the world of theatre from actor John Godber to director Matthew Xia and Common Wealth Theatre’s Sadijah Shabir discuss the topics of the moment Released every Wednesday at 10am until 20 October Tune in here: https://www.northern-broadsides.co.uk/the-n…
3:41 PM 30th September 2021
Interviewing Steve Hughes - The Comedian WHO Now Rocks You With Laughter
Comedian Steve Hughes is known the globe over for his hard hitting, take no prisoners stand up show. The former drummer in a thrash metal band returns to the UK for his Are You Serious Tour? The first in seven years. I spoke to Steve about his forthcoming tour to the north. How did you gravitate from being a drummer in a rock band to being a comedian? It was easy really!
2:58 PM 30th September 2021
Orchestra Of Opera North’s Season Of World Premieres Continues
After a euphoric reception for the Orchestra of Opera North’s first concert at Huddersfield Town Hall in over a year and a half, the Kirklees Concert Season continues on 7 October with the world premiere of a Concerto for Bass Trombone, and works by Mendelssohn and Brahms. Opera North has also announced 14 successful entries to its Minute Masterpieces competition.
2:42 PM 30th September 2021
Waitress - Over Here Please!
Waitress, an unlikely topic for a musical, but as it wrestles with issues that have galvanised mankind since time immemorial – loneliness, female empowerment, friendship and other themes- it is hardly surprising that writers, Jessie Nelson and Sara Bareilles, have been able to now relax and watch the pounds along with the awards roll in.
8:42 AM 30th September 2021
‘Grandad Goes For Gold!’ With Third Book Launch
New Book Featuring ‘Hurricane Hannah’ Cockroft MBE Aims To Raise Funds For Charity
2:10 PM 29th September 2021
Stepping Into the Light: Genesis at Leeds Arena
Steve Whitaker
Literary Editor
The Last Domino tour was always going to be a crowd-pleaser.
11:38 AM 29th September 2021
We’re Having A Ball – And Everyone Is Invited
One of CBeebies most popular personalities Andy Day is joined by two familiar faces from York Theatre Royal’s Travelling Pantomime - Robin Simpson and Faye Campbell – in Cinderella at York Theatre Royal this Christmas. This most magical pantomime of all can be seen from 3 December to 2 January.
7:17 PM 28th September 2021
Jason Donovan Interview
Graham Clark
Features Writer
Jason Donovan first came to fame through the hit TV series Neighbours before going on to have a successful pop career in the late 1980’s. Donovan then went on to appear in a series of West End musicals. He is now about to embark on the Even More Good Reasons Tour which is loosely named on his debut album Ten Good Reasons. I asked the singer and actor about his forthcoming tour.
12:15 PM 28th September 2021
The Haunted Season At York Theatre Royal
World premieres by Emma Rice, Matthew Bourne and Tonderai Munyevu plus appearances from The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Headless Horseman feature in The Haunted Season at York Theatre Royal this autumn.
9:04 PM 27th September 2021
Welcome To Sleepy Hollow. Population 436. May You Never Leave!
The Headless Horseman is galloping towards York as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow plays at York Theatre Royal from 5 - 9 October as part of the Haunted Season. Washington Irving’s story is adapted for the stage by Philip Meeks, whose play Murder Margaret and Me premiered at York Theatre Royal in 2017.
7:33 PM 27th September 2021
Michael Bolton - Time, Love And Tenderness In Harrogate
The first night of a tour can mean things do not always go to plan. Due to a technical issue it meant that the doors opened late at the Harrogate Conference Centre when American superstar Michael Bolton played his first concert in the town.
1:50 PM 26th September 2021
Cézanne – Muse, Guide And Maestro: Interview With Phil Fraser – Watercolour Artist
Landscape watercolour artist Phil Fraser works from his idyllic, light-filled studio situated in Grassington, surrounded by the dramatic majesty of the Yorkshire Dales. Hiking around this verdant countryside is to marvel at nature’s capacity to delight the soul as well as the eyes.
6:02 PM 25th September 2021
York Proms Plans A Right Royal Show For The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
After a disastrous time for the live events industry, York Proms founder, Rebecca Newman, vows to return with the biggest event so far, with a special royal flavour included to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee. The next event is on Sunday 10th July 2022 and discounted early bird tickets are on sale now.
1:00 PM 25th September 2021
Billy Ocean - The Tide Is Still High In Harrogate
Graham Clark
Features Writer
For anyone of a certain age, dancing around a pile of handbags in the mid 1970’s at your local disco to Love Really Hurts Without You, was part and parcel of your late teens. Like the song, Billy Ocean has worn well over time, “the song might be over 45 years old, which is strange because I’m only 35 years old” joked the singer to a sold out audience at the Harrogate Conference Centre.
8:58 AM 25th September 2021
Classical CD Review; Bruch: Piano Trio & Other Chamber Music
Andrew Palmer
Group Editor
Bruch: Piano Trio & Other Chamber Music The Nash Ensemble Piano Trio in C minor Four pieces Op 70 Romance, String Quartet No 2 in E major Op 10 Hyperion CDA68343.
5:00 AM 25th September 2021
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