ALEXANDRA Burke, Alan Carr, Jasper Carrott and Freddie Flintoff are among the stars lighting up the summer season at Bradford Theatres.

Highlight shows include Dirty Dancing, The Bodyguard, Jersey Boys and murder mystery classic The Mousetrap.

Other big names coming to town include master of psychological illusion Derren Brown, with new show Miracle, and folk legend Mike Harding, bringing an evening of poetry to the stage.

Lorna Luft will be breathing new life into her mother’s showstoppers in The Songbook Of Judy Garland, which has creative direction from Arlene Phillips, and Claire Sweeney stars in new show Sex in Suburbia.

Prepare to be spooked when gripping ghost story The Woman In Black, made into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe, also comes to the Alhambra stage in the year it celebrates 25 years in the West End.

Former X Factor winner Alexandra Burke stars in The Bodyguard, on tour following a hit West End run, and Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage brings the music and dances of the show to life with passion, romance and “sensationally sexy dancing”.

There’s more music in The Carpenters Story, Godspell In Concert, starring Jade Ewen from Sugababes and former X Factor runner-up Andy Abraham, and INALA, a fusion of South African and Western cultures featuring Grammy-winning choral legends Ladysmith Black Mambazo and members of the Royal Ballet and Rambert.

Veteran crooner Jack Jones is supported on his Coming Home Tour by Rita Coolidge.

The Mousetrap returns to the Alhambra after a run in 2012. The whodunnit is famous worldwide for being the longest-running show of any kind in the history of British theatre, with more than 25,000 performances.

There will be laughs a-plenty from comics Stewart Lee, Alan Carr, Kevin Bridges, Paul Foot, Shappi Khorsandi and veteran Jasper Carrott, bringing his Stand Up And Rock show to town.

And popular comedy dinner shows returning to the Alhambra’s Restaurant 1914 include Fawlty Towers, Del Boy and Rodney, the Sitcom Experience and a murder mystery evening called Trouble at T’Mill.

Visit bradford-theatres.co.uk or call 01274 432000 for further information.