Music

Silsden Sports Club

Rock ‘n’ roll covers band Blue Suede Dudes (Saturday). Also at Cross Hills Social Club (September 3) and Snooty Fox in Oakworth (September 24)

Pennington’s Octagon, Bradford Road, Keighley

01274 562252

theoctagonlive.com

Tribute acts Rag Dolls as Jersey Boys (October 7), Rock Stewart (October 21); soul singer Richie Penrose (August 26); Julie Gold in 80s Gold Show (September 16); Rocky Horror Show tribute (October 29); AJ as Robbie Williams (November 4); Stars In Their Eyes winner in Pure Meat Loaf (November 18)

Bingley Arts Centre

01274 567983

bingleyartscentre.co.uk

Spirit of Smokie rock band (September 24)

Exchange Arts Centre, Russell Street, Keighley

01535 661591

exchangearts.co.uk

Acoustic musicians Skinner and Twitch (Wednesday) and Weave (September 28); Nirvana UK tribute (September 24); “21st century Paul Simon” Gary Stewart (October 12); singer-songwriter Sarah McQuaid (November 23); Slayer tribute band War Ensemble with Gods Of Hellfire and Pulverise (October 15); Paul Weller acoustic celebration Days Of Speed (November 12)

Baccapipes Folk Club, Ukrainian Club, 9 Henry Street, Keighley

01535 605310

baccapipes.org.uk

Summer singarounds (tomorrow 8.30pm)

Narrow Boat Inn, Victoria Street, Skipton

skiptonfolkclub.co.uk

Skipton Folk Unplugged with Stuart Douglas (September 5)

Krizma, Sackville Street, Bradford

skiddle.com

Los Angeles rapper T -Dhurr with Heartless Crew and Lady Marga (August 28)

Local

Café Choux Choux, Keighley railway station.

worthbrew@aol.com

01535 645214

Keighley Comedy Club with Chris Brooker and Freddie Quinne (tonight 8.30pm)

Sutton Village Hall

01535 632289

Sutton’s Green Hut Theatre Company in TV sitcom The Vicar Of Dibley (September 9 and 10)

Black Bull, Main Street, Haworth

lostghostnights.co.uk

Ghost nights with Simon Entwistle (Monday, September 26, October 31)

Bingley Arts Centre

01274 567983

bingleyartscentre.co.uk

Bingley Little Theatre in Ron Hutchinson play Moonlight And Magnolias (September 12-17), Dickensian spine chiller The Haunting (October 24-29) and comedy The Flint Street Nativity (December 5-10)

Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth

bronte.org.uk

Summer holiday activities including Wild Wednesdays (until September 2); late-night Thursday opening till 8pm (September 15); Parsonage Unwrapped features Celebrating Charlotte Brontë with Brontë writer Christine Alexander (tomorrow); lecture Charlotte And The ‘Woman Question’ (September 6, 2pm); Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing (September 9-11) with Mslexia magazine, workshops on How To Write A Synopsis and An Arresting First Page), Glynis Charlton writing workshop, Magic of the Miniature discussion, and LipService comedy event Withering Walks; Charlotte Brontë 200th anniversary exhibition Charlotte Great And Small (until January 2017)

Regional

Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

01274 432000

bradford-theatres.co.uk

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (September 27 and 28); Charles Dickens’s A Tale Of Two Cities (October 4-8); Northern Ballet in Romeo And Juliet (October 11-15); comedian Jimmy Carr (October 1); Northern Ballet in children’s show Tortoise And The Hare (October 14); Westlife singer Shane Filan (October 17); Halfway To Paradise The Billy Fury Story (October 19); singer Gilbert O’Sullivan (October 20); Ken Dodd Happiness Show (October 22); Tommy Steele in musical The Glenn Miller Story (October 25-29); musical Mary Poppins (November 2 to December 10); Billy Pearce in pantomime Peter Pan (December 17 to January 29)

Alhambra Studio, Bradford

01274 432000

bradford-theatres.co.uk

Comedian Dane Baptiste (October 15); Only Fools And Horses actor John Challis presents Only Fools And Boycie (October 26); comedian Paul Foot (October 27); presenter and writer Mark Radcliffe (October 29); comedian Gerry Sadowitz (November 5); raconteur Gervase Phinn (November 8 and 9); cricket commentators Blofeld & Baxter (November 16)

Bradford Cathedral

01274 432000

bradford-theatres.co.uk

Bradford Chamber Season with Alauda Quartet (October 14), cellist Raphael Wallfisch and pianist John York (November 11), recorder player Piers Adams and harpsichord player David Wright with Wild Men Of The Baroque (December 2)

King’s Hall, Ilkley

01274 432000

bradford-theatres.co.uk

Folk band Steeleye Span (October 18); Starman, a Musical Celebration of David Bowie (October 21); The Rubettes featuring Alan Williams (October 27); The Simon And Garfunkel Story (November 3); Down To Earth, an evening with TV gardener Monty Don (November 14); Johnny Cash Roadshow (December 8); children’s show The Santa Trap (December 18/19)

Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax

01422 250250¶

deanclough.com¶

Ed Beale’s impasto pictures, prints by Catherine Sutcliffe-Fuller, Re-emergence by Alan Pergusey Hidden Frames photography by Roger Manton, modified objects from the eclectic and fecund mind of Ian C Taylor, Lesbos-inspired art by Janina Cebertowicz (all until Tuesday)

Grand Theatre, Leeds

0844 8482700

leedsgrandtheatre.com

Alexander Burke in musical Sister Act (until Saturday); comedy Relatively Speaking (Tuesday to September 3); singer Jane McDonald (September 4); Opera North in Der Rosenkavalier, Il Tabbaro, Suor Angelica and Billy Budd (September 17 to October 28); nostalgia show Sixties Gold (October 30); musical The Rocky Horror Show (October 31 to November 5); Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis in tribute show Million Dollar Quartet (November 7-12); Ghost The Musical (November 14-19); musicals Chicago (November 22-26), The Full Monty (November 28 to December 3) and The Commitments (December 5-10); singer Elaine Paige (December 11)

Harewood House, Leeds

North and South, video installation by Simon Warner celebrating Capability Brown (until October 30)

Leeds City Varieties

0113 2430808

cityvarieties.co.uk

Comedian Al Murray The Pub Landlord (September 17 and 18)

Leeds City Museum

leeds.gov.uk/citymuseum

0113 2243732

Courage, Conscious and Creativity, First World War exhibition (until December 4); First World War exhibition In Their Footsteps (until January 8)

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds

0113 2137700

wyp.org.uk

Brontë season with Northern Ballet’s dance-drama Wuthering Heights (September 6-10); drama Villette from Charlotte Brontë’s novel (September 24 to October 15), new rock musical about the family Wasted (October 20-22), Jane Eyre versus Villette debate (September 29)

Theatre Royal, Wakefield

01924 211311

theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk

rock musical Jesus Chris Superstar (Wednesday to September 10); John Godber comedy This Might Hurt (September 14-17); tribute show On Tour With Elvis (September 24); Alan Ayckbourn comedy Bedroom Farce (September 28 to October 1); Agatha Christie whodunnit The Mousetrap (October 3-8); singer Tony Christie (October 9); comedian Rich Hall (October 11); Magic of Motown (October 13); singer Joe McElderry (October 14); Magic of The Beatles (October 15); musical The King And I (October 19-22); children’s show Peppa Pig’s Surprise (October 26/27); Frankie Valli and Jersey Boys tribute Big Girls Don’t Cry (October 28); The Life And Music Of Jim Reeves (October 29)

Touchstones, Rochdale

link4life.org/touchstones

Exhibitions include Jarred: Ceramics From The Collection (until October 1); Women Artists From 1861 To 2015 (until spring 2017); 17 international women artists in Tall Tales (until September 3)

York Art Gallery

01904 687687

yorkartgallery.org.uk

Truth And Memory, exhibition of British art of the First World War (until September 4)

Marsden Jazz Festival

0800 6125649n

marsdenjazzfestival.com

Silver anniversary with Digby Fairweather and Paul Jones, Abstract Orchestra, Jazz Jamaica, Ben Crosland Quartet, the Impossible Gentlemen, the Swing Commanders, Trifolia and Nerija (October)