New theatre shows developed by companies based across the North of England are in the running for a unique new Edinburgh Fringe Award – funded and judged by the region’s arts venues. The winning show will receive £3,500 cash and support to tour the work widely. The shortlisted entries for the Venues North Edinburgh Fringe […]
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Angie Smith, Artistic Director of Jamrock Productions, transports audiences from Huddersfield to Jamaica with her original plays. Her latest play, My Hurt, My Pain, My Dreams, opens at the Lawrence Batley Theatre on Friday 31 May. We sat down with Angie to chat about her inspirations and her love of writing and theatre. How long […]
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Cody Daigle-Orians is a Louisiana-born playwright, educator and arts programmer living in Hartford, Connecticut. In his second collaboration with Huddersfield-based company, Root & Branch Productions, Daigle-Orians sees his play In The Bones relocated to the north of England. In The Bones follows the 2018 Greater Manchester Fringe Award–winning 18 Victoria. When did you write ‘In […]
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We’re thrilled to announce the Lawrence Batley Theatre will be staging the adaption of Matt Haig‘s bestselling book Reasons To Stay Alive as part of a national tour by English Touring Theatre and Sheffield Theatres. English Touring Theatre, who staged French Without Tears and Othello at the LBT will be bringing the show to Huddersfield from Tuesday 8 – Saturday 12 October. At 24 Matt’s […]
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This April, the Huddersfield Thespians present Queers, a series of short monologues written in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act. In 1967 the Sexual Offences Act legalised homosexual acts between consenting men of 21 or over, in private, in England and Wales. Later laws did the same for Scotland in 1981 […]
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In the dark days of 1919, just after the First World War, a likeminded group of members of Christ Church Woodhouse in Huddersfield decided to ‘put on a musical show’, the show was Princess Ju Ju and Christ Church Woodhouse Amateur Operatic Society was born. Exactly 100 years later, Woodhouse Musical Theatre Company is in the […]
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This March A Festival returns to the LBT. It’s a week of live performance which cuts across art forms, brings different voices to the stage and celebrates artistic adventure. Please find news below of an opportunity to share work as part of this week long festival of exciting live performance. A Festival Call out for […]
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Henry Filloux-Bennett has been announced as the new Director & Chief Executive of the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield. Henry, who is currently the Head of Marketing at The Lowry, will join the organisation in March 2019, taking over from the outgoing director Victoria Firth. He leaves The Lowry after three years, having previously worked […]
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We’re so proud that our own Che Whigfield-Turner is staging her show Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? here at the LBT. It’s particularly special for us as we’ve been able to see Che’s talent blossom: from being a key member of our Young Company, to being a part of our Christmas pantomime, to […]
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In August 2018 we created In the Family Way, a unique project for young people aged 16-25 which explored the LBT’s history as a Women’s Home for unwed, pregnant young women. Through generous funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) a group of talented men and women worked at both Heritage Quay, the official archives […]
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