Comedy | Chortle Student Comedy Awards
I don’t have a problem with student comedy. It is a fantastic opportunity for those sprightly young things to hone down their act, shirk off the glimmers of Lee Evans or Ricky Gervais the discerning eye might pick up, and really come into their own. I tried my best to avoid playing matchmaker between the [...]
Film | Creatures of the Night: The Shining
4/5 Thank you to those lovely cinemas that appreciate the need to show younger generations such classics as Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. A pioneer in…
A Closer Look At… Roger Ebert
It might sound like damning with faint praise to say that Roger Ebert (1942-2013) was the world’s most beloved film critic. Critics are not generally…
Comedy | Milk the Laughs
Milk the Laughs made their spring debut with a bumper crop of comedy from some familiar faces and some nice shiny new ones. Tealights alumni…
“So are you a People Person?” – An Interview with Lucy Porter
Jennifer Smith speaks with Lucy Porter, ahead of her gig at The Library Pub Lucy Porter’s latest one-woman show, People Person, will appeal to a…
Hidden Gems : Top 10 Summer Arts Festivals
Bored of big-name festivals with less than impressive line-ups? Feed your creativity this summer with something a little…
Dance | Just As We Are
5/5 stars The Northern School of Contemporary Dance April 26 ‘One of us, two of us…all of…
Theatre | Architects of the Invisible
4/5 stars stage@leeds April 24-27 Like every other play produced by the PCI this year, ‘Architects of…
The Duffy Archive Brings Bowie to Leeds
Melissa Baksh spoke with renowned photographer Chris Duffy ahead of his highly anticipated exhibition ‘The Duffy Collection’. His…