August 7 Exchange Arts Centre, Russell Street, Keighley 01535 661591 exchangearts.co.uk Pearl Jam tribute Pearled Jam (Saturday); We Are Atlas, New Delta, Indigo Crow, Dead In Dog Years and Samantha Rose (August 8)] Pennington’s Octagon, Bradford Road, Sandbeds 01274 562252 john@penningtonsoctagonlive.com Bay City Rollers musician Eric Faulkner (tomorrow) Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley airedo.com Aire Do music festival with The Freestylers, K-Klass Live, Goldie Lookin Chain and local bands (Saturday and Sunday, tickets from Keighley Civic Centre) Riverside Fields, Silsden.

07581 498817 dirtyboyinc.com Jam music festival with Rev and the Makers, Bruce Foxton From The Jam, Nick Harper and Tom Hingley (August 22-24) Bingley Arts Centre 01274 567983 bingleyartscentre.co.uk Commotions singer Lloyd Cole (August 27); Take That tribute band Rule The World (September 27); Peter Frank’s Dixieland Jazz Band with Loretta Scott (September 27) Local Silsden Town Hall The Path Across The Heather, a night of drama, poetry, readings and music about the First World War (August 8-10). Tickets available at Twiggs newsagent in Silsden Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley Teddy Bear’s Picnic (Tuesday 11am to 3pm) Bingley Arts Centre 01274 567983 bingleyartscentre.co.uk Bingley Little Theatre in comedy Cash On Delivery (September 15-20) Out of Town Alhambra Theatre, Bradford 01274 432000 bradford-theatres.co.uk Royal Shakespeare Company in Henry IV Parts I & II (October 28-November 1); Northern Ballet in The Great Gatsby (November 11-15); 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 (September 10); 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 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) Square Chapel, Halifax 01422 349422 squarechapel.co.uk Girl growing up in Miss Interpreted (August 16/17); folk duo O’Hooley & Tidow (August 29) Grand Theatre, Leeds 0844 8482700 leedsgrandtheatre.com Musical Shrek (until August 17); Agatha Christie thriller The Mousetrap (August 26-30); comedian Ken Dodd (August 31); comedian Dawn French (September 2); comedian Jasper Carrott and bands in Stand Up And Rock (September 7); 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 National Youth Music Theatre in First World War musical Brass (August 20-23); singer Joe McElderry (October 22); comedy sketch group Cardinal Burns (October 30); pantomime Dick Whittington (December-January) 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) York Theatre Royal 01904 623568 yorktheatreroyal.co.uk Family show The Wind In The Willows (July 31 to August 30) Grand Opera House, York 0844 8713024 atgtickets.com/york York Stage Musicals in Sister Act (September 12-20) Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield 01484 430528 thelbt.org Heartbreak Productions in Peter Pan And The Lost Boys (Sunday) and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (August 10); Garden Party with music, film, performance and games (August 16); Performance Picnic Music with open mic (August 9); Blunderbuss Theatre Company in children’s play Hugless Douglas (August 23-24) Harrogate Theatre 01423 502116 harrogatetheatre.co.uk Roald Dahl children’s story The Witches (August 7-9) Wakefield Theatre Royal 01924 211311 theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk Musical Oliver! (August 27 to September 6); comedy On The Piste (September 10-20); 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 Cartwright Hall, Bradford 01274 431212 bradfordmuseums.org Ukrainian Art (until August 10) 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 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