Liz Coggins

London

Editor at Leeds Guide

Freelance Theatre Critic at The Yorkshire Post

Writer at Freelance

An author, journalist and drama teacher

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Articles

BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF ADAPTATION AT LEEDS GRAND

6 days ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

Direct from the West End, James Graham’s powerful adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff comes to Leeds Grand Theatre from Tue 13 to Sat 17 May 2025. This acclaimed adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s BAFTA award-winning television drama has picked up rave reviews since it premiered at Liverpool’s Royal Court in September 2023.
HISTORICAL PLAY HEADS TO YORK GRAND OPERA HOUSE

6 days ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

The greatest, most powerful and dangerous figures who shaped English history are brought vividly to life in Robert Bolt’s award-winning play, directed by Jonathan Church. Following record-breaking ticket sales across the country and a hugely acclaimed national tour earlier this year, the show will be at Brighton and York before transferring to the West End.
SMASH HIT MUSICAL FOR LEEDS GRAND

1 week ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

Following sell-out seasons in London and New York, the brand-new smash hit musicalStep siblings Sebastian Valmont and Kathryn Merteuil engage in a cruel bet: Kathryn goads Sebastian into attempting to seduce Annette Hargrove, the headmaster’s virtuous daughter. Weaving a web of secrets and temptation, their crusade wreaks havoc on the students at their exclusive Manhattan high school.
ALL ABOARD FOR THE RAILWAY CHILDREN........

1 week ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

As part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, this evocative new production of Mike Kenny’s acclaimed stage adaptation offers something truly unique: an evocative journey through time, by steam train. Beginning at Keighley station, audiences will board a heritage steam locomotive and travel the same five-mile route immortalised in the 1970 film version of The Railway Children. At the line’s end in Oxenhope, the story unfolds in a purpose-built theatre set within the station’s historic Engine Shed.
PROMS IN THE PARK

2 weeks ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

The UK Proms in the Park tour 2025 is set to arrive in Leeds, West Yorkshire for two nights at Harewood House including The UK Dance Anthems Orchestra and The UK Proms Orchestra on 20th and 21st June 2025. The sensational Dance Anthems Orchestra will perform on Friday 20th June 2025 at one of Yorkshire’s most vibrant country houses, Harewood House. The event will feature DJ Judge Jules.
FANCY SEEING A NEW SHOW RIGHT ON YOUR DOORSTEP?

2 weeks ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

Leeds Playhouse is taking Sisters 360, an exciting family-friendly play by acclaimed Bradford playwright Asif Khan, on a Community Tour from 13-22 May to schools and neighbourhood venues across the city. Sisters 360 is a 60-minute show for young audiences inspired by real-life skateboarding sisters Layna, Maysa and Amaya from Hull, and their Olympic hero Sky Brown.
VEGAN FESTIVAL COMES TO PUDSEY

2 weeks ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

Vegan Events UK is getting ready for this Saturday’s Pudsey Vegan Festival at Pudsey Civic Hall. Here’s what to expect – 60 exciting vegan stalls, global cuisine, decadent cakes and desserts, expert talks, ethical fashion, cruelty-free beauty and nutrition secrets. If you are looking for inspiration for a vegan lifestyle or plant-based options or to discover items that you won’t find in the supermarket, Pudsey Vegan Festival is the ideal place.
TWO MILLION PLANTS POTTED FOR AROUND THE CITY

2 weeks ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

The Leeds City Council-run garden centre and plant nursery is the largest local authority nursery in the country. Most of the plants they sell are grown in the massive 19,000 square metre glasshouses on the premises, and the site provides flowers and plants to be displayed across Leeds. How they manage to get millions of plants ready to bring springtime to the city is thanks to the state-of-the-art potting robot that has been in place since 2017.
BOURNE'S MIDNIGHT BELL AT YORK THEATRE ROYAL

4 weeks ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

This June, New Adventures bring Matthew Bourne’s award winning production The Midnight Bell to York Theatre Royal. Inspired by the work of the great English novelist Patrick Hamilton The Midnight Bell promises to delight audiences with Bourne’s masterful storytelling and signature style. Set in 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound streets of Soho and Fitzrovia.
BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

1 month ago | leedsguide.co.uk | Liz Coggins

The square, which last year was transformed by one of the city’s most ambitious ever transport projects, will see THOR’S providing a selection of cocktails and street food, along with disco-themed games, drinks inspired by nostalgic ice lollies, and live acoustic sessions every Thursday. This summer will also see the arrival of a new pop-up park on City Square, with additional seating for people to enjoy the space and sunshine.