Music
Black Bull, Main Street, Haworth
Blues and Roots night plus steak night with Leeds musicians Tree, Nida Mozuraite and Dave Lynch (8pm)
Exchange Arts Centre, Russell Street, Keighley
01535 661591
exchangearts.co.uk
Emerging Talent music contest (May 17); Diofest II with Motorhead tribute Stone Dead Forever, Dio Apostles, Valafar, Sativa, Hollow Earth and Wolf 359 (Saturday); tribute band Roxy Musique (May 21); tribute band Pink Floydian (June 4); bluesy rock with hip-hop rhythms from Little Brother Eli and Fighting Caravans (June 11); New Order tribute True Order (June 25); The Vibrants and Vanessa Maria (July 1); acoustic musicians Den Miller and Strid (July 2)
Baccapipes Folk Club, Ukrainian Club, 9 Henry Street, Keighley
01535 605310
baccapipes.org.uk
Singers nights (tomorrow and May 27, 8.30am); Helen and Mike Hockenhull (May 20)
Victoria Hall, Saltaire
01274 588614
saltairelive.co.uk
SaltaireLive presents Peatbog Faeries (Sunday) and Treacherous Orchestra (June 23)
Local
Keighley Picture House, North Street
Keighley Film Club presents Iranian loosely-scripted movie Taxi Tehran (Sunday 6pm) and black comedy and unconventional romance The Lobster (June 19)
Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
bronte.org.uk
Charlotte Brontë 200th anniversary exhibition Charlotte Great And Small (until January 2017); historian Juliet Barker speaks about Mrs Gaskell and her book The Life Of Charlotte Brontë (May 21)
Regional
Bingley Arts Centre
01274 567983
ticketsource.co.uk/bingleyartscentre
Bingley ladies choir Opus 44 (Saturday); Bingley Little Theatre in Oscar Wilde play An Ideal Husband (May 23-28); scenes from Shakespeare’s plays in The Bard In Bingley (May 21 and 22); Bingley Amateurs in musical Flashdance (June 14-18)
Bankfield Museum, Halifax
Splendid Shreds Of Silk And Satin, a celebration of Charlotte Brontë in quilts (until June 11)
Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
01274 432000
bradford-theatres.co.uk
Musical Billy Elliott (until June 11); Ukelele Orchestra Of Great Britain (June 16); euphoric international musical coalition The Nile Project (June 18); Gareth Gates and Maureen Nolan in Footloose The Musical (June 28 to July 2); David Walliams’s children’s story Gangsta Granny (July 5-9); hit musical Wicked (July 20 to August 21); Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (September 27 and 28)
National Media Museum, Bradford
01274 202039
nationamediamuseum.org.uk
Gathered Leaves, a decade of work by photographer Alec Soth (for a season)
King’s Hall, Ilkley
01274 432000
bradford-theatres.co.uk
Comedian and wordsmith Gyles Brandreth (Monday); Audience with Spandau Ballet musician and actor Martin Kemp (Tuesday); rhythm and blues band Dr Feelgood (June 2)
Ilkley Playhouse
ilkleyplayhouse.co.uk
01943 609539
Noel Coward drama Vortex (until Saturday); farce One Slight Hitch (May 25 to June 4); musical Betty Blue Eyes (July 4-16)
Victoria Theatre, Halifax
01422 351158
victoriatheatre.co.uk
Cabaret nights with Miss Saigon singer Emma Dears (May 22) and Wicked actor James Gillan (June 26)
Square Chapel, Halifax
01422 349422
squarechapel.co.uk
Halifax Symphony Orchestra play Butterworth, Elgar and Holst (Saturday); Jurassic Park parody Dinosaur Park (May 19); Scottish traditional music from Tannahill Weavers (May 20); John Godber comedy Debt Collectors (May 21); jazz stars Andy Fairweather Low (May 27); Jane Austen’s drama Emma (June 2)
Theatre In The Mill, University Of Bradford
01274 233200
facebook.com/theatreinthemill
Father-daughter relationships explored in Tribute Acts (tomorrow)
Halifax Playhouse
01422 365998
Legendary film feud between Davis and Crawford in drama Bette & Joan (Tuesday to May 21)
Grand Theatre, Leeds
0844 8482700
leedsgrandtheatre.com
Musical The Bodyguard (until May 21); musical Guys And Dolls (May 24-28); mentalist Derren Brown in Miracle (May 30 to June 4); Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats (June 20 to July 2); Beatles musical Let It Be (June 11-16); Alexander Burke in musical Sister Act (August 22-27))
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
West End show The 39 Steps (until Saturday); Barry Hines’s drama Kes (May 20-June 4); Opera North co-production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods (June 2-25); Yorkshire grit, determination and solidarity in drama about First World War women, Barnbow Canaries (June 11 to July 2); children’s show Peppa Pig’s Surprise (July 20 and 21);
Leeds City Varieties
0113 2430808
cityvarieties.co.uk
TV Naked Choir winners Sons Of Pitches (Saturday); David Hamilton rock ‘n’ roll show (May 20); celebrity Giles Brandreth (May 23); Strictly Come Dancing favourites Ian Waite and Natalie Lowe (June 4); poetry and music from Roger McGough and Little Machine (June 10); comedians Sara Pascoe (June 11), Ken Dodd (July 2) and Al Murray The Pub Landlord (September 17 and 18)
Leeds Hall Town
0113 3760318
leedstownhall.co.uk
Orchestra Of Opera North with Leeds Festival Chorus and Bradford Catholic Youth Choir (June 4)
Leeds City Museum
Leeds.gov.uk/city Museum
013 2243732
Courage, Conscious and Creativity, First World War exhibition (May 28 to December 4); Changing Faces Of Leeds exhibition (until June 5); First World War exhibition In Their Footsteps (July 1 to January 8)
Yeadon Town Hall
0113 2505011
brassnecktheatre.com
Comedy version of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (until May 21)
Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
01484 430528
thelbt.org
Huddersfield Gilbert And Sullivan Society in HMS Pinafore and Cox & Box (until Saturday); folk concert with Ashley Hutchings and Becky Mills (Saturday); drama about LGBT asylum seekers Rights Of Passage (Tuesday); Ockham’s Razor in aerobatic dance show Tipping Point (May 19 and 20); Proper Job Theatre Company in thought-provoking take on modern British life, Fewer Emergencies (May 23); Grand Northern Ukelele Festival (May 28 and 29); family show The Adventures Of Walter Lemonface (May 31); Alan Ayckbourn’s dark comedy Wildest Dreams from Dick And Lottie (June 1-4)
Theatre Royal, Wakefield
01924 211311
theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk
Legally Blonde The Musical (until Saturday); Irish musicians The Fureys (May 26); Mad About The Musicals with Singers Gareth Gates and Michael Courtney (June 8); Wakefield Drama Festival with Dracula, Blood Brothers, Abigail’s Party and Trojan Women (May 29 to June 4); Black Dyke Band (June 9); adult evening with comedian Billy Pearce (June 10); new Jim Cartwright play Raz (June 13 and 14); Rhythm Of The Dance (June 21); Bat Boy The Musical (July 6-9); New Amen Corner present Bringing Back The 60s (July 13)
York Art Gallery
01904 687687
yorkartgallery.org.uk
Truth And Memory, exhibition of British art of the First World War (until September 4); unimagined treasures in The Lumber Room
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