Beautiful Octopus Club Festival
29 Jan – 1 Feb 2024
Join us for our Beautiful Octopus Club Festival – a week of fun activities for our BOC crew and guests, celebrating creativity, skills and friendship.
Past shows
Playhouse production
Oliver!
24 Nov 2023 – 27 Jan 2024
Consider yourself one of the family at Leeds Playhouse this festive season for Lionel Bart’s award-winning musical, Oliver!
For artists
Learn to Beatbox
27 Jan 2024
For ages: 4-16. Learn the fundamentals of human beatbox - creating drumbeats, sound effects and all manner of musical noises with your mouth, with world record holding beatboxer Testament.
For artists
An Introduction to Human Beatboxing with Testament
27 Jan 2024
For ages: 16+ Learn the basic techniques of beatboxing, beatbox performance skills, and how to create your own sounds with world record holding beatboxer and acclaimed writer and theatre-maker Testament.
Playhouse production
The Enormous Crocodile
2 Dec 2023 – 6 Jan 2024
A new musical version of Roald Dahl’s picture book featuring tasty tunes and mischievous puppets suitable for those 4+.
Playhouse production
Beautiful Thing
18 – 28 Oct 2023
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.
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.
Christopher Eccleston: Arts and Culture – For the many; or the few?
30 Sep 2023
BSL
BSL Interpreted
CAP
Captioned
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.
