Past shows

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Storytelling

30 Sep – 25 Nov 2023

FREE storytelling sessions at the Playhouse

For artists
Furnace Festival 23

18 – 25 Nov 2023

Welcome to the Ninth Annual Furnace Festival 2023!

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James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome

25 – 28 Oct 2023

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'One of comedy's most original voices' (Evening Standard) has written a new show. He's very proud of it. That being said, you are allowed to ruin it. Fill your boots.

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Beautiful Thing

18 – 28 Oct 2023

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A revival of Jonathan Harvey's iconic, coming-out and coming-of-age story about community, friendship, rites of passage and what it is to be sixteen and in love. 

OH DEER!

13 – 14 Oct 2023

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For one hour, Australian company APHIDS make a lively new space for adults who have lost a parent – from Melbourne to Leeds.

Students and teachers
As You Like It

14 Oct 2023

The Forest of Arden grows in the Quarry this autumn. This gripping 90-minute performance is by graduating actors and actor musicians from Leeds Conservatoire.

Children & young people
Romeo and Juliet

12 Oct 2023

The most famous of love stories, Romeo & Juliet has intense passion at its heart, alongside an irrepressible desire for change. This gripping 90-minute performance is by graduating actors and actor musicians from Leeds Conservatoire.

Sir Jon Cunliffe and Tom Duff Gordon: Other Side Of The Coin

30 Sep 2023

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What does the future hold for crypto and stablecoins with CBDCs like the digital pound in place?

LIFI23

27 – 30 Sep 2023

A festival of new ideas and innovation, presenting a programme of conversation, connection and curiosity exploring some of the most pressing questions of our time. A platform for fresh ideas…

Who does our political system benefit?

30 Sep 2023

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Recent years have seen our political landscape dogged by questions of integrity – but are our leaders the ones to blame, or is it the systems in which they operate?

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How do we talk about grief?

30 Sep 2023

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Experienced universally but felt so uniquely, grief will find its way into our lives and affect us in ways sometimes impossible to articulate. Manifesting in all forms, shapes and sizes,…

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Christopher Eccleston: Arts and Culture – For the many; or the few?

30 Sep 2023

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Christopher Eccleston shares his story as a working class actor and the need to keep voices such as his, alive across the arts and cultural scene, and why this is fundamental to society at large.

  • MAJOR FUNDERS

    Arts Council
  • Leeds City Council
  • LTB Foundation
  • PRINCIPAL CAPITAL AND FAMILIES PARTNER

    Caddick Group
  • PRINCIPAL CAPITAL AND ACCESS PARTNER

    Irwin Mitchell