How one may be held up heading for Almeida, putting on plays (2,8)
I believe the answer is:
at gunpoint
'how one may be held up' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.
'heading for almeida putting on plays' is the wordplay.
'heading for' says to take the initial letters.
'plays' is an anagram indicator.
The initial letter of 'almeida' is 'a'.
'putting'+'on'='puttingon'
'puttingon' is an anagram of 'tgunpoint'.
'a'+'tgunpoint'='AT GUNPOINT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for at gunpoint that I've seen is " Under threat of shooting".)