Past shows - Leeds Playhouse

The Ancient Oak of Baldor

11 – 12 Mar 2025

Relaxed Performance

A multi-sensory experience for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities and their companions.

A Workshop by the Fringe Society

11 Mar 2025

The Fringe Society is coming to Leeds Playhouse! Kirsty Fraser (Artistic Development Manager) and Martha Haskins (Artistic Development Officer) will be spending the day at the Playhouse to offer any…

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Leeds Trinity University Social Justice Lecture Series 2

9 Oct 2024 – 10 Mar 2025

The Social Justice Series is a free monthly event held at Leeds Playhouse, bringing together students, colleagues and the community for an evening of discussion.

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Tackling Confinement in Orphanages

10 Mar 2025

Join us for a story of hope, and how the world can be changed for the better.

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Inside Giovanni’s Room

6 – 8 Mar 2025

Phoenix Dance Theatre presents Inside Giovanni’s Room, a full-length dance production inspired by one of the most important novels of the 20th century, James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.

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The Intrusion

1 – 8 Mar 2025

The world has ended, time to rejoice. A leader emerges, one who promises a better future.

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Last few

Buffy Revamped

1 Mar 2025

BSL

BSL Interpreted

A fast-paced gem bringing you the entire 144 episodes of the hit 90s TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as told through the eyes of the one person who knows it inside out... Spike.

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Playhouse production

The House Party

21 Feb – 1 Mar 2025

Audio Described

A wild party. A friendship. And one night that changes everything. Laura Lomas’ The House Party spins Strindberg’s Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for today’s generation.

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The Merchant of Venice 1936

18 – 22 Feb 2025

Audio Described

BSL

BSL Interpreted

CAP

Captioned

PSD

Post Show Discussion

Touch Tour

Ambition, power and political unrest explode onto the stage in The Merchant of Venice 1936, direct from selling out the RSC and London’s West End.

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For artists

Improvisation Workshop by MonkeyHeads

18 Feb 2025

Join us for a fantastic improvisation session full of games and laughter hosted in our Weston Room and facilitated by Duncan Marwick.

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For artists

The Mixtape Project

18 Feb 2025

A 2-day workshop for 14-18s with spoken word artist, rapper and musician Testament, and video artist Laura Spark in response to imitating the dog’s unique theatre production All Blood Runs Red

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All Blood Runs Red

14 – 15 Feb 2025

The extraordinary true life of Eugene Bullard. This is one of history’s overlooked true stories. This is a name that should be known, a story that must be told. This is a story of hope.

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