The Telegraph & Argus: Leisure News from across the Bradford district

Actor Don Warrington to direct Rising Damp at Alhambra Theatre

9:00am Friday 14th June 2013

When Don Warrington landed his first role in a new comedy called Rising Damp, the young actor found himself working alongside some impressive acting heavyweights.

Biggins backs Guiseley's CarpetBaggers

10:00am Friday 14th June 2013

Guiseley-based theatre group CarpetBaggers has announced its new patron as larger-than-life Christopher Biggins.

Bradford theatre company takes Dickens's Hard Times on tour

8:20am Friday 7th June 2013

Paper Zoo Theatre Company is touring its adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel Hard Times this summer.

Bradford’s New Community Arts Academy on journey through movie musicals

8:20am Friday 7th June 2013

Bradford’s New Community Arts Academy (pictured) is staging a journey through some of the best-loved movie musicals, including The Wizard Of Oz, Sister Act and some Disney classics.

Keighley Playhouse prepares to perform Neville's Island

9:00am Friday 31st May 2013

testosterone-driven comedy about a group of businessmen marooned on an island is the next production from Keighley Playhouse.

Julian Clary and a Bradford audience – it’s a marriage made in heaven!

9:08am Friday 24th May 2013

Julian Clary invites you to a wedding – and it could turn out to be your own!

Shaolin Warriors to show off amazing kung-fu skills in Bradford

9:16am Friday 24th May 2013

The Shaolin Warriors bring the next installment of their martial arts spectacle, Return of the Master, to Bradford this weekend.

Illusionist Brown brings a new show of Derren-do to Bradford

9:12am Friday 24th May 2013

He’s the master of illusion whose stunts include performing Russian Roulette on live TV, creating a video game featuring real people in a catatonic trance, predicting winning National Lottery numbers and getting viewers to ‘stick’ to their sofas while watching his show.

Plenty of clowning around at the My Newt Comedy show

8:42am Friday 17th May 2013

Tony Burgress, ‘The Clown Prince of Manchester Scallies’, who starred as DJ Troy in Johnny Vegas’s BBC sitcom Ideal, is appearing in Shipley on Monday night.

Portraying soul icon Tina Turner is the ‘role of a lifetime’ for Emi Wokoma

8:39am Friday 17th May 2013

Anna Mae Bullock was a teenage gospel singer who had only ever sung in churches when she met the man who would turn her life upside-down.

Jason Donovan will be camping it up for Priscilla Queen of the Desert at Bradford

6:00am Thursday 9th May 2013

Jason Donovan has been announced as the star of hit show Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which is coming to Bradford on a UK tour.

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Hannah relishes playing the hostess from hell in Abigail's Party at Bradford Alhambra

7:00am Friday 3rd May 2013

The gin and tonics are in full flow and Donna Summer is playing on the music centre.

Bingley Little Theatre’s comedy pairings will get you laughing in three acts

9:00am Friday 3rd May 2013

What do you get when you put three sets of characters through three crucial moments?

Bingley Little Theatre puts on classic play

4:00pm Friday 3rd May 2013

It’s a busy season for Bingley Little Theatre, which is also putting on A Man For All Seasons this month.

Dramatic society goes on a flight of fancy

10:00am Friday 3rd May 2013

Fulneck Dramatic Society is all set for take-off with its latest production, Boeing Boeing.

Chico to appear in Bradford panto Aladdin

6:00am Thursday 2nd May 2013

It will be ‘Chico Time’ in Bradford this Christmas, when the pop star joins the cast of the Alhambra pantomime, Aladdin.

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Playhouse to tell a Wilde tale of Victorian vanity

11:00am Friday 26th April 2013

Keighley Playhouse is going ‘wilde’ for its latest production – a daring and dangerous exploration of the quest for eternal youth.

Paul Robeson's stormy career brought to life in Ilkley

10:00am Friday 26th April 2013

Call Mr Robeson, a one-man show that has been seen in New York and London, is on for one night only tonight at Ilkley’s Playhouse Theatre.

Champagne night of burlesque on offer

8:00am Friday 26th April 2013

International burlesque star Catherine D’Lish is performing in Bradford, during a rare visit to the UK.

Fantastic felines on the prowl in Bradford as musical Cats pounces on the Alhambra

6:00am Thursday 25th April 2013

Emma Clayton goes behind the scenes of one of the world’s best-loved and longest-running stage shows - Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats

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Society’s commemorative calendar aids cancer charity

4:00pm Thursday 25th April 2013

To celebrate their latest production of Calendar Girls, Cleckheaton and Spenborough Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society produced a commemorative calendar and programme.

Men in tights on a mission of merriment

12:00pm Friday 19th April 2013

The Reduced Shakespeare Company is tackling the “complete works” of the Bard - all 37 plays in just 97 minutes!

Youth group turns to the Bard for next production

11:40am Friday 19th April 2013

Bingley Little Theatre’s Kaleidoscope youth group is turning to the Bard for its latest production.

Offbeat reflection of father-son bonding over classic movies

10:00am Monday 15th April 2013

The title of Aidan Goatley’s comedy routine, Ten Films With My Dad, reminds me of a friend of mine who, as a youth, used to go to the pictures regularly with his father.

Jokers head to town for nights of stand-up fun

12:00pm Friday 12th April 2013

Two comedy nights are back in the Aire Valley.

Society celebrates anniversary with a couple of classics

9:20am Friday 12th April 2013

Bingley Gilbert and Sullivan Society has been celebrating its diamond anniversary with a special production of Trial By Jury – taking place in City Hall.

Forecast for rain as Singin In The Rain sets Alhambra date

8:30am Thursday 11th April 2013

An acclaimed production of Singin’ In The Rain is coming to Bradford, from a smash hit West End run.

Alhambra Theatre to be transformed for Sleeping Beauty on Ice

9:00am Friday 5th April 2013

lga Sharuntenko has a long, harsh winter in her native Russia to thank for her glittering international figure skating career.

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‘Terrifying take’ on Bronte family puts Branwell in the spotlight

9:00am Friday 5th April 2013

Young Branwell Bronte, who once ruled an imaginary world, is now a man trying to cope with the real world.

Cats returns to Alhambra at Bradford

9:00am Friday 5th April 2013

Cats is one of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history and it returns to the Alhambra for two weeks this month.