This Spring Charmaine Childs, a Strong Lady of extraordinary abilities, will perform at the Lawrence Batley Theatre her new show POWER. Here Charmaine delves into what power means to her, what to expect from her show, and why it’s important to embrace both fragility and strength in an increasingly polarised world. I’m very excited to […]
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Today Huddersfield’s Lawrence Batley Theatre has been awarded a £499,999 grant from Arts Council England to transform the Grade II listed building. The theatre, which is celebrating 25 years this year, will use the funding to make key updates and renovations to the building. Changes will include improved access facilities for artists, a new look […]
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In 1913 when the Ballet Russes performed to Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring for the first time audience members at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées were shocked at the avant-garde nature of the work and apparently broke out into riots. Now, over 100 years later Phoenix Dance Theatre perform a reworking by Haitian-born choreographer, Jeanguy […]
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Our October performance of Amanda Whittington’s Mighty Atoms is a first for us in several ways. The play was commissioned for Hull’s year as City of Culture in 2017, and performed at Hull Truck Theatre, but this is the play’s first production since then, and the first by a non-professional company. It will also be […]
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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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