WHAT'S ON from February 12

Oakworth Methodist Church: Sunday School pantomime Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Saturday-February 21). Phone 01535 642625.

Glusburn Institute: Snow White, the Dwarves and Helpers (Monday-February 21). Tickets from Forget-Me-Not, Cross Hills, or phone 01535 633702.

Cullingworth Village Hall: CADS pantomime Cinderella and (Tuesday-February 21, 7.15pm). Tickets from Chemist Shop, Main Street, Cullingworth.

Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth: Alter Ego, abstract paintings by Victor Buta based on Bronte handwriting (until March 31). Phone 01535 640188.

Keighley Playhouse: Neil Simon play The Gingerbread Lady (March 9-14). Phone 08451 267859.

National Media Museum, Bradford: baby photographs from across history, including celebrity and royal families, and Bradford Babies display (February 13-April 19); Valentine's film double-bill of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset (Saturday); half-term children's activities include making baby masks, baby books, animating their own toys , making a tv advert; Imax documentary Mummies 3D: Secrets of the Pharaohs, Space Station, Deep Sea and Dinosaurs Alive (daily); IMAX screenings of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Phone 0870 70 10 200.

Bradford Alhambra: musical comedy Blonde Bombshells of 1943 (until Saturday); musical Evita (Monday-February 28); musicals Chicago (March 9-21) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (24-28). Phone 01274 432000.

Eureka Children's Museum, Halifax: storytelling, arts and crafts, puppet shows on fantasy and fairytale themes (half term holidays). Phone 01422 330069.

St George's Hall, Bradford: singer Hayley Westenra (tonight); Manchester Camerata play Mozart, Haydn and Barber (Friday); kids' science show Brainiac Live! (Saturday); Ellen Kent opera Aida (Monday); comedian Ed Byrne (20); Chinese State Circus (27/28). Phone 01274 432000. Mart Theatre, Skipton: tribute bands U2UK show (February 20) and Abba 2 (February 27); young Victor Meldrew-type comedian Jon Richardson (28). Phone 01756 791411.

Victoria Theatre, Halifax: Vagina Monologues (February 26). Phone 01422 351158.

Grand Theatre, Leeds: Marti Pellow in adult musical The Witches of Eastwick (Tuesday-February 21); Northern Ballet Theatre perform Mixed Programme including A Simple Man (26-28), and Swan Lake (March 4-7). Phone 0844 848 2701. Burnley Mechanics: American wrestling (Friday); Queen tribute Mercury); comedian Ed Byrne (February 19); Circus of Horrors (20); folk rockers Fairport Convention (21); comedian Count Arthur Strong (March 3); Chumbawamba Acoustic (5); One Night in Vegas with West End performers and British Philharmonic Orchestra (7); X-Factor finalist Andy Abraham (11); alternative poet John Cooper Clarke (12); Johnny Cash tribute Ring of Fire (13); Burnley Municipal Choir Choral present Dvorak's Stabat Mater (15); female comedy duo Lip Service (18); psychic Ian Lawman (19); comedian Robin Ince (20); Robbie, Kylie, Abba, Madonna, Queen tribute True Diversity (21); Burnley Light Opera Society in musical Sweeney Todd (31-April 4); raconteur Garvase Phinn (15); singer Elkie Brooks (25); West End comedy Stones in his Pockets (28); 60s band Gerry and the Pacemakers (30). Phone 01282 664400.

Colne Municipal Hall: Circus Hilarious (February 21, 2.30pm); musical Sweeney Todd(26); Lancashire songs and humour with Norman Prince and Paul Johnston (27); Manchester Camerata (March 8, April 23); comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown (12); John Steinbeck drama Of Mice and Men (18); Colne Orchestra play songs from films (22); Stage Door Youth Theatre Present Honk! The Musical (26-28); Brighouse and Rastrick Band (44); Presley impersonator Lee "Memphis" King (5); Queen and ELO tribute band Magic (May 8); Buddy Holly tribute act Tommy Allsup (June 4); Great British R&B Festival (August 28-31). Phone 01282 661234.

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: drama about police brutality, The Hounding of David Oluwale (until February 21); Northern Broadsides and Lenny Henry in Othello (Saturday-March 14); musical comedy in The Convict's Opera (February 24-28). Phone 0113 213 7700.

St Margaret's Church, Ilkley: Skipton Camerata presents An Evening With Mozart for Manorlands (March 14). Phone 01756 405555. Bingley Arts Centre: Bradford Magic Circle present Hey Presto! magic show (March 21). Phone 01274 432000.

Bankfield Museum, Halifax: Forbidden Kingdom, woven carpets by John Allen (until March 14); The Art of Embroidery exhibition (March 21-May 4).

Mart Theatre, Skipton: family show Poor Jack (March 5); Pink Floyd tribute Floyd 2 (6); Hull Truck Theatre in John Godber's bleak, funny and shocking revenge drama Beef (7); Eagles tribute band Talon (20); Back to Broadway song and dance show (21); "hard and edgy" reworking of Macbeth with live music (26); comedian Simon Evans (28); Bumm's Story Machine (4); BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winners Aly Bain and Bill Cunningham (May 9); raconteur Gervase Phinn (23); tribute band Limehouse Lizzie (July 11). Phone 01756 791411.

Bradford Alhambra: children's play Why the Whales Came (March 31-April 4); musicals Cabaret (6-11) and Fame (13-18); Le Grand Cirque Fantazie (28-May 2); Cinderella on Ice (May 5-9); Scooby-Doo and the Pirate's Ghost (14-17); musical Singin' in the Rain (June 2-6); Matthew Bourne's ballet Dorian Gray (July 2-4). Phone 01274 432000.

St George's Hall, Bradford: clairvoyant Derek Acorah (March 5); Berlin Symphony Orchestra (6); Yorkshire Regional Brass Band Championships (7/8); tribute band Bjorn Again (11); Sing-a-long-a Hairspray (14); Ellen Kent and Russian Classical Ballet Theatre present Delibes' Coppelia (15); Halle Orchestra and cellist Natalie Clein (correct); menopausal musical Hot Flush! (26); Rob Brydon (27); classical acts Blake and Natasha Marsh (April 4); comedian Jim Davidson (9); singer-impressionist Joe Longthorne (18); 40s to 70s tribute show Memory Lane (22); Songs of Sister Act with London Community Gospel Choir and X Factor's Rowetta (24); Orchestra of Opera North (25); Horrible Histories with Frightful First World War and Woeful Second World War (April 28-May 2); Irish spectacular Lord of the Dance (May 8-10); Vagina Monologues (12); international hip-hop dance theatre festival Breakin' Convention (15). Phone 01274 432000. Grand Theatre, Leeds: Marti Pellow in adult musical The Witches of Eastwick (Tuesday-February 21); Solid Silver 60s Show with Searchers, Merseybeats and Wayne Fontana (May 24); Basil Brush's High Skool Mania (31); comedian Dave Spikey (31); Opera North in Russian musical Paradise Moscow,Verdi's Don Carlos, and Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio (April-June); Rambert Dance Company (June 4-6); musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (8-20). Phone 0844 848 2701. Victoria Theatre, Halifax: Dick & Liddy's Comedy (February 27, March 27); Swansea City Opera in Donizetti's The Elixir of Love (March 4); comedian Jimmy Carr (5); Halifax Symphony Orchestra play Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4 and Beethoven's Emperor piano concerto (7); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (9-14); Chuckle Brothers in Chuckle Trek the Lost Generation (15); clairvoyant Sally Morgan (20); tribute band Bootleg Beatles (21); female comedy trio Fascinating Aida (22); comedy The Bible: the Complete Word of God (Abridged) (25); Halifax Amateurs in musical The Producers (April 1-4); Loves and Plus of Henry Blofeld with sports broadcaster (9); Lisa Riley and TV actresses in women's pole dancing comedy The Naked Truth (16-18); John Godber's lottery comedy Lucky Sods (May 18-20); rock 'n' roll musical Buddy (25-30); Russian Ice Stars in Cirque de Glace (June 10-14). Phone 01422 351158.

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: evocative, dynamic and touching women's play Can Any Mother Help Me? (March 3-7); Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness, funny and heatrical exploration of beauty, mortality and wonder (10-14); Kneehigh Theatre adapt Don John set in the 1978 winter of discontent (18-28); satirical comedy about sex, corruption identity cards in Another Paradise (19-21); disabled actors perform Whiter Than Snow, an uncompromising, engaging and sharp play about a family performing Snow White (24-20); JB Priestley comedy When We Are Married (April 4-25); Improbable in Panic, tale of love and unsettling illnesses (1-9); Circo Dé La Sombra cross slapstick and pantomime with modern interpretation of traditional travelling circus (15-18); Kellerman, Gothic tale of obsessive desire and demonic doctors (22-25); contemporary gothic ghost story Queen Bee (May 5-6); haunting and darkly witty play The Moon the Moon (13-16); Leeds group LAOS Amateurs in comedy musical The Producers (9-16); Philip Pullman's young people's story His Dark Materials in two parts (May 28-June 20); Alan Ayckbourn comedy Bedroom Farce (June 6-July 4); Courtyard Comedy Club (February 15, March 22, under April 19, May 17, June 21); comedian Mike Watson (March 1). Phone 0113 213 7700.

Grand Theatre, Leeds: Flashdance the Musical (March 9-14); musical West Side Story (17-28); Royal Shakespeare Company Present The Tempest with Antony Sher and John Kani (31-April 4); Gervase Phinn (December 7); Mike and the Mechanics singer Paul Carrack (12); Northern Ballet Theatre in Mixed Programme (February 26-20) and Swan Lake (March 4-7). Phone 0844 848 2701. Skipton Town Hall: Skipton Music Club hosts Benjamin Frith (March 24) and clarinettist Emma Johnson with cellist Natalie Clein (November 3). Phone 01756 799912.

Palace Theatre, Manchester: Queen musical We Will Rock You (March 20-June 6). Phone 0844 499 6699.

Sheffield Arena: Judas Priest, Megadeth & Testament (February 13); Kaiser Chiefs (23); Metallica (28), The Killers (March 2); X Factor (3); Snow Patrol (4), Il Divo (5); Lionel Ritchie (22); Simply Red (27); Dancing On Ice The Live Tour (April 2-5); Cirque du Soleil Quidam (9-12); Last Night of the Poms with Dame Edna Everage (September 23). Phone 0114 256 5656.

Grand Theatre, Leeds: Flashdance the Musical (9-14); singer Elaine Paige (15); musical West Side Story (17-28); Royal Shakespeare Company to The Tempest (March 31-April 4); comedian Ross Noble (April 5); Opera North in Russian musical Paradise Moscow,Verdi's opera Don Carlos, and Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio (April-June); Solid Silver 60s Show with Searchers, Merseybeats and Wayne Fontana (May 24); Basil Brush's High Skool Mania (31); comedian Dave Spikey (31); Rambert Dance Company (June 4-6); musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (8-20). Phone 0844 848 2701.