Entertainment

The image of the formidable Anne Lister marching though the streets of 19th century Calderdale is one now instantly recognisable to the thousands of Gentleman Jack viewers at both sides of the Atlantic.

Producers never miss the opportunity to make a quick quid. So it was hardly surprising that after the phenomenal success of the recent movie Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic of Freddie Mercury and Queen, producers saw the opportunity to strike whilst the proverbial iron was hot and put out a tour of We Will Rock You.

I’m walking up the Headrow in Leeds, heading towards the city’s Grand Theatre for an interview, when a car pulls up at a pedestrian crossing and the person in the passenger seat beckons me to jump in the back of the car.

Yungblud is in a cafe in London, and there’s a possibility he’s attracting more than a few curious glances from passers-by.

He may be 74, but the creative juices of rock legend Pete Townshend, the songwriting powerhouse and lead guitarist in The Who, are still flowing.

Since 2002, over 15 million theatregoers in 17 countries have seen the hit Queen and Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You.

Perhaps it is entirely appropriate that John Barrowman’s introduction to live stage performance was when (he reckons that he’d have been around seven or eight years old) he was taken to a performance of Peter Pan in one of Glasgow’s gloriously traditional theatres, and he was completely bowled over at the spectacle of the eponymous hero flying over his head as he sat in the auditorium.

Now in its 20th year Mamma Mia! continues to delight audiences with the feel-good rush that surrounds it.

On Monday evening I was in Bradford town centre, finally getting around to seeing Joker (brilliant, by the way. People  who love cinema are going to  be inspired by it for years to come).

Backstage in a theatre, half an hour before curtain up, is a pretty intense place to be.

The global success of BBC period drama Gentleman Jack has transformed Halifax into one of the UK's top tourist destinations.

In two decades of writing about it, I can recall a small number of moments where the true magic of theatre occurs. I add to that list a moment from Northern Ballet’s Dracula.

Bradford's National Media Museum has promised to screen the "best indie releases to family favourites and blockbusters" as it launches its new cinema operation.

Studio theatres are important spaces. They are where experiments take place and where potential is created.

The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue explains how his band’s latest record was birthed from “one hell of a year”.

A state-of-the-art film and television studio is a step closer to being created in Leeds after a contract was signed for work at the former Polestar Petty printworks site.

There could finally be an end in sight for Scarborough’s long-wait for a multiplex cinema.

The remains of a Victorian whale cruelly killed by fishermen more than 150 years ago have been brought to life in a striking new display at Leeds City Museum.

As someone who is about to enter her thirties, Emily Atack knows only too well about the contemporary pressures and expectations on those in their twenties.