Former Emmerdale star Amy Nuttall plays the title role as the classic musical My Fair Lady comes to Bradford Alhambra.

She plays Eliza Doolittle following the release of her first album and touring the country in Phantom of the Opera.

Amy shares the role from April 4-29 with Lisa O'Hare, who recently took the title role in West End musical Mary Poppins. Christopher Cazenove plays the professor who trains Cockney flower girl Eliza so he can pass her off as a lady.

Gareth Hale plays Eliza's father, a dustman-turned philosopher who always has an eye for the main chance.

The light-hearted show features songs such as Wouldn't It Be Lovely, Get Me to the Church on Time and The Street Where You Live.

The current production, which opened in the West End in 2001 to record-breaking bookings, won several theatre awards. Book tickets at Keighley Information Centre, in the town hall, or phone 01274 432000.

n East Morton neighbours Freda Denbigh and Gilly Rogers are no strangers to Irish plays at Bingley Little Theatre. They played a mother and daughter in Martin McDonagh's Beauty Queen of Leehane last season.

They again play mother and daughter in Dolly West's Kitchen, performed on March 27-April 1, at Bingley Arts Centre.

Frank McGuinness's work has been hailed as a dramatic slow burner that is likely to become a modern classic.

Director Peter Stansfield said the funny, moving and ultimately optimistic play is set during the Second World War. He said: "The quality of writing is astonishing, with several scenes the equal of Chekhov."

A widow lives in Donegal with her daughters, one of whom is unhappily married to a man in the neutral Irish Army. American and English soldiers arrive to train for D-Day and the effect is emotionally devastating.

The cast includes Paul Glover, who played Pongo in Keighley Playhouse's recent 101 Dalmatians, Cross Roads woman Danielle Cooper and Keighley man Paul Dargan.

Book for 7.30pm performances at Keighley Information Centre, in the town hall, or phone 01274 432000.