Brontë Blues Club

07773 637335

bronteblues.com

Lil’ Jimmy Reed Band (September 12); Grainne Duffy Band (October 3)

Keighley Blues Club

keighleybluesclub.net

Lyndon Anderson Band (September 19); Erja Lytinen (October 10); Hitman Blues Band and The New York City Horns (October 24); Blues Band (April 10)

Exchange Arts Centre, Russell Street, Keighley

01535 661591

exchangearts.co.uk

Arctic Monkeys tribute Desert Monkeys (tomorrow); tribute bands Real Nirvana (Saturday), State Of Quo (September 13); comedian Charlie Chuck (September 19); Iron Maiden tribute Blood Brothers (September 20); local band LaikaDog (September 26); folk music with Steve Tilston and Grace Notes (September 27); tribute band Guns Or Roses (October 3); Bon Jovi Forever (October 10); Small Faces tribute Small Fakers (October 16); Slade tribute Slyde Alive (October 25); folk band Merry Hell (October 29); Halloween special (October 31); Sex Pistols Experience (November 1); Green Day tribute Green Haze (November 14); Scorpions tribute The Scopyons (November 15); Thin Lizzy tribute Limehouse Lizzy (November 29); Sister Act Motown show with Soul Fish Band (December 12)

Bingley Arts Centre

01274 567983

bingleyartscentre.co.uk

Take That tribute band Rule The World (September 27); Peter Frank’s Dixieland Jazz Band with Loretta Scott (September 27)

Sunny Bank Social Club, Silsden

Rock ‘n’ roll band Blue Suede Dudes (Saturday). Also at Cross Hills Working Men’s Club (November 29)

 

Local

Sutton Village Hall

01535 632289

Sutton’s Green Hut Theatre Company in No Sex Please We’re British (tomorrow and Saturday, contains adult humour)

Keighley Playhouse

07599 890769

Comedy The Ladykillers based on famous 1955 film (until Saturday, 7.30pm)

Harden Congregational Chapel

Harden Players in comedy play ‘Allo ‘Allo (October 2-11, tickets from Harden Post Office)

 

Out of town

Bingley Arts Centre

01274 567983

bingleyartscentre.co.uk

Bingley Little Theatre in comedy Cash On Delivery (September 15-20); comedian Stephen K Amos (October 5); Bingley Little Theatre in The Spirit Of Annie Ross (October 20-25), Agatha Christie whodunnit A Murder Is Announced (December 8-13), crime comedy Inspector Drake’s Last Case (January 19-24), The Thrill Of Love (March 2-7), Ayckbourn’s If I Were You (March 25-30) and comedy The Ladykillers (July 6-11); Kaleidoscope Youth Group in Charles Dickens’s A Tale Of Two Cities (March 26-28)

All Saints Church, Ilkley

Steeton Male Voice Choir with Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir (September 13). Also at Keighley Shared Church (September 27)

West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth

thestorytellingguild.org.uk

Worth Valley Storytelling Guild hosts stories about conscientious objectors from the First World War (October 17, 7.30pm)

 

Out of Town

Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

01274 432000

bradford-theatres.co.uk

Musical Singin’ In The Rain (until September 13); A Night Of Variety with Michael Ball, Joe McElderry and Billy Pearce (September 20); Dreamboats And Petticoats sequel musical Dreamboats And Miniskirts (September 29 to October 4); Pat Barker’s war story Regeneration (October 7-11); Riverdance 20th anniversary tour (October 14-19); DM Academy in Dream Catcher! (October 21/22); Dance Consortium presents Grupo Corpo (October 24/25); Royal Shakespeare Company in Henry IV Parts I & II (October 28-November 1); Michael Jackson tribute show Thriller Live (November 3-8); Northern Ballet in The Great Gatsby (November 11-15); Bradford Catholic Players in Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel (November 19-22); Brian Conley in circus musical Barnum (November 25-29); Matthew Bourne’s Lord Of The Flies (December 3-6); pantomime Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs with comedian Billy Pearce and singer Joe McElderry (December 13 to January 25)

St George’s Hall, Bradford

01274 432000

bradford-theatres.co.uk

Nocturne, the Romantic Life of Frederick Chopin (Wednesday); Halle play Prokofiev, Mozart and Mussorgsky (September 22); Jaleo Flamenco (September 24); comedian Billy Pearce (September 25); musicals show The West End Experience (September 26); tribute show Magic: A Kind of Queen (September 26); comedians Paul Chowdhry (September 27), Omid Djalili (October 7), Jon Richardson (October 11); singer Aled Jones (October 3); Ultimate Eagles tribute (October 5); musical Bugle Boy about bandleader Glenn Miller (October 8); Russian State Philharmonic (October 10); Motown show Dancing In The Streets (October 24); singer Shane Filan (October 26); children’s show Milkshake! Live (October 30); comedian Frank Skinner (November 13); The Stylistics (November 12); Elvis Years tribute (November 14); singer Jane McDonald (October 18); 70s band 10CC (October 22); Jools Holland And His Rhythm And Blues Orchestra with 80s singer Marc Almond (November 21); Paul Hollywood with Get Your Bake On! (December 3)

Alhambra Studio, Bradford

bradford-theatres.co.uk

01274 432000

Call Mr Robeson, A Life With Songs (October 17); comedians Tom Stade (October 23) and Craig Campbell (October 29); acoustic Saw Doctors from Leo And Anto (October 24); comedy show The Noise Next Door (October 30)

Cineworld, Bradford

Screening of opera Madama Butterfly performed on Sydney Harbour (September 18). Also at Vue, Leeds, Odeon Bradford and Showcase Leeds

Blackburn Heritage Festival

01254 449007

Cabinet of curiosities, street theatre, clog dancing, guided walks, vintage vehicles and fashion show (September 13/14)

King’s Hall, Ilkley

bradford-theatres.co.uk

01274 432000

The Lindisfarne Story with Billy Mitchell and Ray Laidlaw (September 12); singing group Blake with soprano Camilla Kerslake (September 16); Magic: A Kind Of Queen (September 26); children’s comedy The Queen’s Knickers (October 21); An Evening With Gervase Phinn (December 2); rock ‘n’ roll band Showaddywaddy (December 5)

Halifax Playhouse

01422 365998

halifaxplayhouse.ticketsource.co.uk

Family musical Annie (September 18-20); musical entertainment Oh What A Lovely War (October 11, 13 and 18); Clown Noir in stage show This Is Me! (October 23/24); Halifax Amateur Theatre Youth in musical The Phantom Of The Opera (October 28 to November 1); Halifax Gilbert And Sullivan Society in The Pirates Of Penzance (November 4-8); Calder Valley Youth Theatre in Starlight Express (November 12-15); drama Making Waves (November 20-22); adult comedy The Opposite Six (December 9-13); The Night before Christmas (December 16); The Haunting (January 20-24); Fame The Musical (February 17-21); comedy The Vicar Of Dibley (March 24-28)

Square Chapel, Halifax

01422 349422

squarechapel.co.uk

Comedian Rob Newman (September 13); musical play Ballad Of The Burning Star about Israeli conflict (September 25); dramatic one-man show set in Zimbabwe, The Rain That Washes (September 26); Poetry Army (September 27); poet and rocker Elvis McGonagall (October 3); tribute band Absolute Kinks (October 11); slapstick comedy for children with Pop! (October 26); John Godber comedy Bouncers (October 29); children’s tale Hansel And Gretel (November 12); Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth performed in pitch black (November 16); Simon And Garfunkel tribute The Sounds Of Simon (November 22); stand-up comedian Sophie Willan (November 23); Hysterical Historical Show from Lipservice (December 12); folk, classical and jazz from Belshazzar’s Feast (December 14); The Wild Adventures Of Robin Hood (December 16-24)

Grand Theatre, Leeds

0844 8482700

leedsgrandtheatre.com

Comedian Jasper Carrott and bands in Stand Up And Rock (Sunday); Opera North in Verdi’s La Traviata, Monteverdi’s The Coronation Of Poppea and Smetana’s The Bartered Bride (September 20 to November 1); Sixties Gold with Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Searchers, PJ Proby and The Fortunes (November 2); comedy play One Man, Two Guvnors (November 4-8); musical Dirty Dancing (November 11 to December 6); Northern Ballet in Peter Pan (December 11-20); Irving Berlin musical Top Hat (December 23 to January 4); Brian Conley in circus musical Barnum (April to 14-25)

Leeds City Varieties

0113 2430808

cityvarieties.co.uk

Reduced Shakespeare Company (September 19); singer Joe McElderry (October 22); comedy sketch group Cardinal Burns (October 30); pantomime Dick Whittington (December-January)

Carriageworks, Leeds

0113 224 3801

carriageworkstheatre.org.uk

Puppets, live music and characters in family show Pigeon about a heroic First World War bird (November 8)

West Yorkshire Playhouse

0113 213 7700

wip.org.uk

Arthur Miller’s classic drama The Crucible (September 29 to October 25); Northern Ballet in Dracula (September 5-13); comedians Ruby Wax (September 14), Mark Thomas (October 21), Tim Key (October 13) and Tommy Tiernan (October 31); Secret Theatre with plays like A Streetcar Named Desire, Woycezk, Glitterland and Show 6 (September 16-27); comedy drama about family Happy Birthday Sunita (October 1-4); new theatre in Furnace (October 9-13); Told By An Idiot in My Perfect Mind (October 15-18); war, family and being a woman in drama Grounded (October 23-25); Northern Broadsides in comedy classic She Stoops To Conquer (October 28 to November 1); haunting tale of friendship The Kite Runner (November 3-8); children’s show Peppa Pig’s Big Splash (October 30 to November 2); Michael Morpurgo drama Private Peaceful (October 27/28); Leeds Amateurs in Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Aspects Of Love (November 7-15); Irving Berlin musical White Christmas (November 24 to January 17); Roald Dahl’s James And The Giant Peach (December 5 to January 24); Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas (November 22 to January 3); Phoenix Dance Theatre (February 11-14)

Colne Municipal Theatre

01282 661234

themuni.co.uk

Manchester Camerata play Vivaldi with top violinist Nicola Benedetti (September 21); Four Seasons and Five Sensations (November 23) and Dvorak, Haydn, Sibelius and Grieg (April 12); Roald comedy play Dirty Dusting (October 9)

Burnley mechanics

01282 664400

Burnley mechanics.co.uk

West End singer Andy Darbyshire (September 13/14); I Love To Boogie with T-Rextasy (September 19); Queen tribute act The Bohemians (September 20); 1940s harmonies with Swing Commanders (October 3); 1960s hits from Soul Train (October 4); Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash tribute band Hollywood Bees (October 11); children’s show The Elves And The Shoemaker (October 15); comedian Mark Watson (October 16); Ibsen’s drama A Doll’s House (October 23); Peatbog Faeries (October 24); Test Match Special memories with Blofeld And Baxter (October 25); family show Pinnochio (November 2); Motown’s Greatest Hits (October 21); Burnley Light Opera Society in musical Guys And Dolls (November 8-15); John Godber nightclub comedy Bouncers (November 22); Michael Jackson tribute show The King Of Pop. (28); Glenn Miller sounds with Nick Ross Orchestra (November 29); blues singer Chantel McGregor (November 30); pantomime Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (January 16-18, 22-25

Grand Opera House, York

0844 8713024

atgtickets.com/york

York Stage Musicals in Sister Act (September 12-20)

Wakefield Theatre Royal

01924 211311

theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk

Musical Oliver! (Until Saturday); comedy On The Piste (Wednesday to September 20); This Sporting Life (September 22); drama Steel Magnolias (September 24-27); touring music show The Lindisfarne Story (September 30); comedian Omid Djalili (October 4); Irish comedy play Stones In His Pockets (October 8)

 

Attractions

Bolling Hall, Bradford

01274 431826

bradfordmuseums.org

History through several eras in restored rooms of mansion house

Eureka! Children’s Museum, Halifax

01422 330069

eureka.org.uk

Hands-on science activities for children

Mother Shipton’s

01423 864600

Ancient cave, petrifying well, woodland walk, playground and museum

Red House And Gardens, Gomersal

01274 335100

red.house@kirklees.gov.uk

Former cloth merchant’s home with period rooms and Brontë links

Oakwell Hall and Country Park

01924 326240

oakwell.hall@kirklees.gov.uk

Elizabethan manor house with Civil War and Brontë connections, period gardens, nature trail, play areas

Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds

013 2444343

thackraymedicalmuseum.co.uk

Victorian street, interactive displays, surgery techniques and 600 apothecary jars

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

01302 535057

yorkshirewildlifepark.com

Walk-through safari park with tigers, lions, monkeys, meerkats, giraffes, anteaters and cheetahs

Bagshaw Museum, Batley

01924 326155

bagshaw. museum@kirklees.gov.uk

Victorian Gothic mansion with Egyptian and Shirley Bassey exhibits, plus park, woods and playground

National Railway Museum, York

0844 8153139

nrm.org.uk

Collection of historic locomotives, interactive exhibits, family activities, steam rides, miniature railway, outdoor play area, daily talks and demonstrations