Nikki Barrett will be flying high as an air stewardess on stage at Keighley Playhouse next week.

But in real life she is aiming even higher following a spell in a recording studio and talks to join a band.

The former Silsden woman hopes to build on more than a decade's experience singing in musicals and cabarets.

Nikki, 35, has performed with amateur theatrical societies across West Yorkshire in a host of well-known shows.

For the past 12 months Nikki, now living in Barnoldswick, has concentrated on performing solos in charity concerts.

She was raising money for a trip to Machu Picchu to raise £5,000 for the East Lancashire Hospice.

Nikki, who first trod the boards with Sutton Amateurs, returns to Keighley Playhouse next week for the first time in two years.

She plays one of three air stewardesses engaged to a playboy in the farcical comedy Boeing Boeing.

The American, German and French flygirls' schedules are mixed-up and the man struggles to keep his fiancees apart.

Nikki, a Playhouse member for 15 years, said: "The play is very fast and very funny, lots of doors shutting and panicking."

During Nikki's sabbatical from acting she has flown to Guernsey to sing for the Lord's Taverners Association, performed for the Eastenders cast and had breakfast with David Essex.

The previous summer she sang at Henley-on-Thames during a star-studded tribute to Jesus Christ Superstar composer Tim Rice.

The cast of Boeing Boeing also includes Playhouse regulars Tim Lobley, Kevin Moore, Barbara Lowens and Julia Roberts, and experienced musicals performer Kathryn Tonks.

Boeing Boeing runs from Monday-Saturday at 7.30pm. Book tickets on 0845 126 7859 (office hours) or 01535 604764 (weekday evenings).

n People are invited to cool off and calm down tomorrow as Baroque music trio Fleuri perform The Thistle and the Rose.

The programme of 17th and 18th century music will be played on the recorder, viola, cello and harpsichord at Haworth Parish Church.

The concert, part of Haworth Arts Festival, is by a group of Royal College of Music graduates including one Haworth resident.

Tickets cost £5 (£3 concessions) on the door or from Haworth Tourist Information Centre.

n The spiritual son of Frankie Howard will perform a free show in Haworth on Sunday to finish the village's arts festival.

Alan Carr will perform his "bellyachingly funny" Edinburgh Festival show, at West Lane Baptist Church Hall, from 7pm.

Alan, warm-up comedian for Jonathan Ross's TV show, has also appeared on TV's Bo Selecta and the Keith Barrett Show.

He won the BBC New Comedian of the Year competition and hosted a regular Comedy Store show before his three annual Edinburgh appearances.

Sunday's show is free but people need to get tickets in advance from Haworth Tourist Information Centre, at the top of Main Street.

n Clairvoyant Stephen Holbrook returns to Keighley on Thursday to stage a farewell show at Victoria Hall.

The former hairdresser, who claims to be Britain's most accurate medium, will appear from 7.30pm.

After several shows in Keighley over the past few years he now plans to limit his local appearances to Bradford.

Stephen believes in life after death and sees himself as a telephone exchange between this world and the next. He aims to be precise and specific with his evidence, naming names, dates and the nature of people's "passing over".

Tickets cost £10 by phoning 01924 256542, or on the door if seats are still available.

n Sutton Amateurs' play-making revival has paid off with one performance of 'Allo 'Allo! selling out a fortnight before curtain-up.

The September 10 performance was filled last weekend and only a couple of dozen tickets remain for the previous night.

Producer Philip Smith said the TV sitcom, set in wartime France, was proving a popular choice for Sutton's first play in five years.

He said: "The saucy comedy with seaside postcard humour has double entendres and Mme Edith's singing, which has to be heard to be believed."

Tickets cost £6, including refreshments, from Londis Stores, Main Street, Sutton, or by phoning 01535 632289. There is also a bar.

n Polly Teale has already adapted Jane Eyre for the stage and written a play, After Mrs Rochester, about the novel's Mad Woman in the Attic.

Now Polly and the acclaimed theatre company Shared Experience return to Charlotte and her sisters for the drama Bront.

She examines how three Victorian spinsters, living in isolation on the Yorkshire moors, came to write powerful and passionate fiction.

She focuses on real-life influences like clergyman father Patrick and insane brother Branwell, as well as characters from novels like Wuthering Heights.

Bront runs at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, from Tuesday to September 17. Book at Keighley Information Centre, in the town hall, or phone 0113 213 7700.

n Textile Art is an exhibition by Textilia III running in the Airedale Barn, at East Riddlesden Hall, later this month. The exhibition, featuring 18 artists, will open following a preview on September 13.