Valentine. It is a word that divides people, to say the least. For some, it heralds a feeling of excitement;

Valentine’s day is underpinned by one pervasive notion. Not only is it carried by the sudden proliferation of those blushing

Love is all you need. Well, according to The Beatles, that is. And it really is all around. With Valentine’s

Pop-Up Film Festival, Kino, comes to Leeds A Finnish film, award winning shorts, flavoured vodkas, popcorn, a saw player!  Just

Stalin’s Favourite Adapted for the stage from Orlando Fige’s The Whisperers by Rupert Wickham, Stalin’s Favourite offers a personal, candid

The Snatcher is a new audio-book written by Chris Wade, a Leeds-based writer and illustrator and narrated by Hannah Melbourn,

For the less observant, it appears that vintage is back. Has been back for quite some time, in fact. You

This week at the Carriageworks, Theatre Unlimited present ‘Defying Hitler’ and ‘Stalin’s Favourite’ as part of their ‘Living History’ series.

Christmas, as far as I’m concerned, comes around too often. We spend half the year preparing for it and the

Ask any school-aged child what the ‘true’ meaning of Christmas is, and they’ll reel off something along the lines of:

The 1st of December, Leeds. My friend walks into the common room in the union to join me for a

Picture this: It’s Christmas day and there’s not a Christmas tree in sight. There are no stockings, no pile of

When I was younger I had an unashamed love for Christmas. I was one of those children that couldn’t sleep

I’ve always had the feeling that I belong to a different era; that life would be so much more fascinating

‘Tragedy’ encompasses all areas of twenty-first century popular culture: from literature to film to television, the genre is everywhere.  But

“We have a place in society – and I don’t just mean black society” – Myra Harrison. Written by Don

I am organising my papers, performing the same routine as when we became done with ‘us’. Clean slate, with cold

“You know, all it takes for love to succeed is that cynical men stand by and do nothing.” Ben Moor’s

Playwright and actor Ben Moor answers some questions about his play Coelacanth, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and what he has

Depressingly dark but not dull, The Shell Seekers turned out to be a rather thought-provoking production. It is set principally

On the turn of November, when the night leaks into our mornings and afternoons, we celebrate the darkest of all

From the day you’re old enough to be read books not entirely comprised of pictures, you know about wolves. The

“The most transitory of things, a shadow, the proverbial emblem of all that is fleeting and momentary, may be fettered

“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to