Join the celebration of Mugenkyo’s landmark 30th anniversary, with a very special show of big beats, visual treats and vital energy at St George’s Hall, Bradford on Wednesday 8 May 2024, 7.30pm. Taking the audience on a journey ‘in time’, a thrilling ride through their 30 years, the concert is a full theatrical experience, with dynamic choreography and heart-pounding rhythms contrasting with atmospheric soundscapes. As Europe’s longest-established taiko group, Mugenkyo are widely recognised as the groundbreaking pioneers of this exciting art-form, thrilling audiences at thousands of performanc ..read more

Come From Away, the multi-award winning ‘Best New Musical’ across the globe, comes to Leeds Grand Theatre from Tue 30 April – Sat 11 May 2024 as part of its first ever tour of the UK and Ireland. This critically acclaimed show comes direct from the West End where it celebrated over 1000 performances and played to more than 850,000 people at the Phoenix Theatre. The international hit musical has celebrated record-breaking engagements in the West End, on Broadway, in Canada, throughout Australia, and on a 60-city North American Tour. Come From Away shares the incredible real-life story ..read more

Northern Ballet will open its autumn 2024 season with Three Short Ballets a triple-bill featuring two world premières and a Northern première. The trio of works will be performed in Leeds at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre from the 6-14 September and in London in early 2025. Opening the programme will be a previously announced original work from Olivier-award winning Mthuthuzeli November. Inspired by R.L. Peteni’s South African novel Hill of Fools, and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Fools will tell a tale of bitter rivalry between two vllages. The second world première will be an ..read more

WICKED will fly back to the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford from Tuesday 16 April to Sunday 19 May 2024. The spectacular, multi-record-breaking, and critically acclaimed touring production of the must-see musical phenomenon returns to the Alhambra  for a second engagement, following a celebrated season in 2016. The West End and Broadway musical, that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, continues an open-ended run at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre where it is now flying into its landmark 18th year. Wicked Executive Producer Michael McCabe said: “As we prepare for a much an ..read more

Ockham’s Razor, the UK’s foremost circus theatre company, brings Tess, a bold new vision of Hardy’s classic novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, to York Theatre Royal from 8-11 May. Tess uses the original text combined with the physical language of circus, allowing the performers to re-tell the well-known story of power, loss and endurance through a feminist lens. Hardy’s classic novel still has extraordinary relevance for contemporary audiences as it explores questions of privilege, class, consent, agency, female desire and sisterhood. Tess features an ensemble of circus performers from diverse b ..read more

  April is a month when we take stock of our beauty needs for the spring and summer. Months of damage by central heating and icy blasts will have taken its toll on the skin whilst we need to lift our mood with a glimpse of the new colours for spring. So we’ve chosen some essential go-to products that will help you step beautifully into spring. Valentina Li’s drew her inspiration for Chanel’s Spring Makeup Collection (see main picture) from the ocean depths, sunlight reflecting on a crystal sea, the iridescence of pearls and shells and the rich colour of corals. Where the Land Meets the Se ..read more

  Reigning Strictly champion Ellie Leach will be waltzing into the Quarry Theatre at Leeds Playhouse from 3-7 September on the world premiere tour of Cluedo 2 Making her stage acting debut, the Coronation Street star will be playing Miss Scarlett alongside Casualty’s Jason Durr as Colonel Mustard in the show based on the classic Hasbro board game, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Ellie won the hearts of the nation as she sashayed her way to victory with dance partner Vito to win the Glitterball Trophy last December. She is also known to millions of viewers as Faye Winda ..read more

Based on the smash-hit BBC One drama that entertained millions of viewers over four series, the world premiere of Kay Mellor’s final stage play, The Syndicate, comes to her hometown of Leeds, playing at Leeds Grand Theatre from Thursday 18 – Sunday 28 April 2024. TV and stage star Gaynor Faye, Kay’s daughter, makes her directorial debut, bringing her mother’s stage adaptation to life, in this moving comedy drama. The Syndicate tells the story of five supermarket workers whose lottery syndicate numbers come in, just as their jobs and livelihoods are under threat. Will a share of the jackpot mak ..read more

Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfoe;d  theatre has announced its full summer season featuring the return of world-renowned dance-circus company, a brand-new comedy festival and the bravest, boldest shows from Northern theatre maker, Philip Stokes. Following the huge success of Nobody, staged in 2021, the world-renowned dance-circus company Motionhouse return to the Yorkshire stage with a triple-bill dubbed Three. The show will bring together three powerful pieces from the company’s spectacular repertoire. This moving triple bill offers audiences an opportunity to experience the creativity ..read more

BREAKING NEWS: 30 years since the launch of the trailblazing, smash-hit TV series Drop The Dead Donkey, the Globelink News team are back, and now live on stage for the very first time. Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening!, will comes to Leeds Grand Theatre from Tuesday 9 – Saturday 13 April 2024. Starring the original cast members Stephen Tompkinson, Neil Pearson, Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Ingrid Lacey, Jeff Rawle, and Victoria Wicks, the iconic BAFTA and Emmy award-winning TV comedy is reimagined for the stage in this brand-new stage adaptation directed by Lindsay Posner. Bursting with ..read more