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WHAT'S ON from July 2


East Riddlesden Hall: outdoor shows Three Musketeers (August 2) and Canterbury Tales (August 30). Phone 01535 683800.

Thornton-in-Lonsdale: Airedale Male Voice Choir (August 15). Phone 015350 653110.

Sutton Village Hall: Sutton Amateurs in TV sitcom Hi-de-Hi! (September 4/5). Phone 01535 632289.

Sheffield Arena: Walking with Dinosaurs family spectacular (Wednesday-July 26). Phone 0114 256 5656.

St George’s Hall, Bradford: children's show Tweenies (July 25/26). Phone 01274 432000.

Bradford Alhambra: Upstagers in musical Oliver! (until Saturday); Take That musical Never Forget (21-25); Connie Fisher in The Sound of Music (September 2-26); musical Jackie with 1970s songs (28-October 3). Phone 01274 432000.

Grand Theatre, Leeds: musical Blood Brothers (until July 25); Le Grand irque Fantazie (July 29-August 2); Who musical Quadrophenia (4-8); children's show Lazy Live! Pirate Adventure (12-16); singer-impressionist Joe Longthorne (20); family show Scooby Doo and the Pirate Ghost (21-23); Agatha Christie thriller Spider's Web (24-29). Phone 0844 848 2701.

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds: The New Monumentality exhibition with Gerard Byrne, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster and Dorit Margreiter (until August 30). Phone 0113 234 3158.

Bankfield Museum, Halifax: exhibitions, 21 years of Cheshire Textiles group (until September 6); Millinery Miscellany, has displays (Saturday-September 27).

Harewood House, Leeds: plays Cinderella (August 8) and Sense and Sensibility (19). Phone 0113 218 1010.

Victoria Theatre, Halifax: children's show Tweenies Live! with Top of the Tots (August 30). Phone 01422 351158. Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax: posthumous retrospective of Bingley artist Robert Lee , Michael Sandle's A 20th C. Memorial and landscapes and inky lampoons by John Ross (all until October 4) National Media Museum, Bradford: exhibition by leading photographer Don McCullin of pictures of England from 1950s to now (until September 27), photo exhibition Animalism investigating contemporary visual media responses to the animal world (spring/summer). Phone 01274 203317.

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Northern Ballet Theatre in Dracula (September 10-19); thriller Dial M For Murder (September 11-October 3); classic drama The Caucasian Chalk Circle (September 25-October 17); funny and savage The Fahrenheit Twins (October 13-17); Hanif Kureishi's novel adaptation The Black Album (20-24); Markus the Sadist (26/27); children's show Mischief (29-31); Shakespeare Schools Festival (November 3-7); modern classic The Grapes of Wrath (3-14); army scandal dramatisation Deep Cut (10-21); family musical The Secret Garden (November 28-January 23); Cinderella for four-year-olds and above (December 11-January 23). Phone 0113 213 7700.

Grand Theatre, Leeds: comedian Al Murray Pub Landlord (November 1), Steven K Amos (2) and Ed Byrne (6); High School Musical 2 (9-14); musical Chicago (23-28); Northern Ballet Theatre in A Christmas Carol (December 1-10) and Peter Pan (Sunday-27); Opera North in Mozart's "seriously beautiful" Cosi fan Tutte, Massenet's touching story of impossible love Werther, Janacek's charming The Adventures of Mr Broucek (September-October); Puccini's La Boheme, Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Ruddigore (January-February), Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Dvorak's Tragic Beauty Rusalka (May-June) and Jonathan Dove and Alistair Middleton's new family chamber opera Swanhunter (November). Phone 0844 848 2701.

St George’s Hall, Bradford: Soweto Gospel Choir (September 4); Noddy in Toyland (6); comedian Tim Minchin (October 1); children's show The Gruffalo (13/14) comedian Julian Clary (20); InternationalOrchestral Concert Season features Essential John Williams film music night with Orchestra of Opera North (October 18), Halle Orchestra with conductor Mark Elder and horn soloist Richard Watkins (October 2), piano soloist Hong Xu (March 13) and Viennese New Year concert with soloist Natasha Marsh (January 3); Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (November 14); Orchestra of Opera North (December 11), Czech National Symphony Orchestra (February 12), English Chamber Orchestra (April 16) and Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (May 7). Phone 01274 432000.

Victoria Theatre, Halifax: pantomime Cinderella (December 12-January 3). Phone 01422 351158.

Sheffield Arena: Elvis Presley In Concert with his original band members (February 19); Simple Minds and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (December 5); Green Day (October 26). Phone 0114 256 5656.

Leeds Town Hall: St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra (October 3); Manchester Comeraata (10); BBC Philharmonic (17); Halle Orchestra (24); Trondheim Soloists (31); Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (14); Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (21); Orchestra of Opera North (December 5); Halle Orchestra (January 16); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (23); City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (30); Czech National Symphony Orchestra (February 6); English Chamber Orchestra (28); Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (March 13, May 15); BBC Philharmonic and Leeds Festival Chorus (20); Orchestra of Opera North (27); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (April 17); European Union Chamber Orchestra (24); Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (May 8). Phone 013 224 3801.



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