Bluey’s Big Play, the theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® Award-winning animated television series, has captivated audiences of all ages, with Bluey and her family delighting fans with an unforgettable live theatrical experience and its back on tour in the UK and Ireland With brilliantly created puppets, Bluey’s Big Play features the original voices from the beloved TV series, including…

She has worked alongside British intelligence, been befriended — and duped — by a real spy, and watched her government blow up buildings in the Welsh countryside. Now, with her latest thriller, The Hiding Season, Ava Glass is bringing the shadowy world of espionage to Yorkshire.

Dance of the Stream Sprite Shuffle through the shady shallows, Leap from log to log, Tango past the tangled brambles, Tiptoe round the bog. Skipping, stepping, pirouetting where the minnows teem; I’m dancing to the mesmerizing music of the stream. Balance over broken branches, Limbo under bridges, Twist and turn through murky tunnels, Samba with the midges.

Rising UK pop artist Charlie Aky returns with his new single Perfume Regret, a gentle yet emotionally resonant track inspired by a fleeting moment of memory and scent. Built around delicate melodies and intimate vocals, the song reflects on how small triggers can unexpectedly bring the past rushing back.

Here is a disc that will unsettle and beguile in equal measure, and listeners who approach it with an open mind will find themselves richly rewarded. Laurence Osborn is a composer with a strong and distinctive voice—one that ranges from the arch and ironic to the deadly serious—and this collection of four pieces, engaging with classical music's heritage culture, the bold imaginative world of childhood, and the sometimes vertiginous boundary between the mechanical and the human, constitutes a powerful statement about where contemporary music can travel when it is in genuinely fearless hands.

Keswick Museum is hosting a new exhibition in the Community Gallery. The exhibition, ‘Curlew Recovery - Helping Curlews Thrive in the Cocker Valley’, is open daily, 10am - 4pm, from Monday 16th March to the end of April. Entrance to the Community Gallery is free, but there is a charge for Museum exhibitions.

One of Europe’s most exciting opera stars is coming to Leeds for a rare UK recital outside London. The French singer Marianne Crebassa will perform at the Leeds Song Festival in a special concert with leading British pianist and Festival Director Joseph Middleton.

There seems to be a bit of an 80s influence coming through in bands at the moment. This is something I’m happy to see, as this was the era when I began my love affair with music and going to see bands. I’m not sure whether the current sound I hear in many bands is simply due to their parents' record collections or a rediscovery of the brilliant bands from that time.

One of the most memorable contributions to Bradford’s year as UK City of Culture actually came out in advance of 2025 and stimulated renewed appetite to look again at the stories of what the West Riding city has given Britain - not only in bricks and institutions, but in ideas.

However, icon status is draining, and, unsurprisingly, after what was a truly epic tour in support of his third studio album, Harry's House, he needed to take some time to just live and breathe. Having refreshed his heart, soul and mind, he returned earlier this year with the strikingly different Aperture. After really enjoying exploring LCD Soundsystem in their live setting, he crafted a more minimalist disco-driven song for his big return

Elder's direction throughout is meticulous without ever becoming mannered; the phrasing is alive, the dynamics precisely weighted, and the playing of the Hallé consistently luminous. If Huw Watkins remains less widely known than his gifts deserve, this disc is an authoritative and thoroughly persuasive introduction.

Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 12 Overture to ‘Idomeneo, rè di Creta’, K. 366; Rondo in A major, K. 386 Concerto in F major (three pianos), K. 242 ‘Lodron’; Rondo in D major, K. 382; Overture to ‘La finta semplice’, K. 51; Concerto in E flat major (two pianos), K.