After 11 years in post Victoria Firth is stepping down from the role of Director and Chief Executive of the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield. Victoria was credited with turning around the theatre’s fortunes and successfully stewarding the organisation through a decade of creative and financial success. In 2013 she also successfully led the Kirklees […]
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To coincide with English Touring Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of Othello, the LBT is collaborating with ETT to provide a unique opportunity for local theatre makers to develop their own performance work in response to some of the themes of Othello. This scratch performance work will be shown as part of The Othello Project on […]
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Hallowe’en Happening is Huddersfield’s biggest and most terrifying Halloween event, when we fill our haunted Georgian building with a multitude of performances and activities for the audience to sample throughout the night. It’s a great event and we want to support local and emerging artists to be part of it. If you’re an artist or […]
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Fallen women, wayward girls, whore and ner’ do wells. These are just a few of the names given to describe young women who would find themselves needing the help of women’s homes across the UK. You may not know that one of these homes was once located in what is now the LBT. The Women’s […]
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The Lawrence Batley Theatre has announced a host of thrilling productions for the new season including English Touring Theatre’s Othello, Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Windrush and the theatre’s third in-house pantomime Aladdin. Tickets go on sale on Friday 13 July. In the Performance Programme Opera North’s Whistle Stop Opera offers a bitesize performance on Thursday 27 […]
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Do you love performing? Can you dance, act or sing? Are you between the ages of 9 and 17? And are you prepared to work hard and commit a lot of time to the show? Then we need you to be part of the Young Chorus for Aladdin – the Lawrence Batley Theatre’s 2018 professionally […]
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Last week we erected a huge big top tent in Greenhead Park to bring the international Circus Tsuica to Huddersfield. With a day to get the tent up before the first show the LBT tech team worked around the clock to get the performance area complete. Watch the clip below to see the end results.
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LBT Director Victoria Firth spent four weeks observing rehearsals of the Royal Exchange’s Happy Days. In this weekly blog she gives an insight into the production. HEAR WE ARE I didn’t know that the name the company use for the theatre auditorium is the ‘module’ but it is and this week we are in it. […]
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LBT Director Victoria Firth spent four weeks observing rehearsals of the Royal Exchange’s Happy Days. In this weekly blog she gives an insight into the production. ONE-ON-ONE CHAT WITH SARAH FRANKCOM I’m fortunate to have a one to one chat with Sarah Frankcom where I can follow my curiosity about what is going on for […]
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LBT Director Victoria Firth spent four weeks observing rehearsals of the Royal Exchange’s Happy Days. In this weekly blog she gives an insight into the production. THE POWER OF 3 It strikes me that this play is about a 3 way relationship – a woman, a man and the landscape. The environment is unforgettably present […]
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