7 of the best
Your guide to events you must not miss this week
1Mindgame
Halifax Playhouse, from now until Saturday May 20, daily at 7.30pm plus a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm
Halifax Thespians present Anthony Horowitz’s thriller. Set in an experimental institution for the criminally insane, Mindgame follows the experiences of a true crime author as he seeks an interview with a notorious serial killer.
He discovers no one is who he or she seems and there are menacing characters waiting in the wings to add to the confusion.
Tickets: 01422 365998
2 Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny 2.0
Victoria Theatre, Halifax, Thursday May 18 at 8pm
Jimmy’s show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things, he has warned. Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love. But they’re just jokes - they are not the terrible things.
Having political correctness at a comedy show is like having health and safety at a rodeo.
You have been warned – as his publicity states.
Tickets: 01422 351158
3 The Searchers: Thank You Tour 2023
Victoria Theatre, Halifax, Saturday May 20 at 7.30pm
Their all-evening presentations, professionally put together and packed with their chart hits including Sweets For My Sweet, Needles and Pins, When You Walk In The Room, Goodbye My Love, Don`t Throw Your Love Away, Sugar & Spice and What Have They Done To The Rain.
Tickets: 01422 351158
4
Luke Jackson
Square Chapel, Halifax, Friday May 19 at 7.30pm Canterbury-based UK singer-songwriter Luke Jackson has been playing live and recording for more than 10 years now, steadily developing an enviable reputation for himself in the folk, roots, Americana and acoustic circuits.
Support comes from
Connor Walsh, an up-andcoming singer/songwriter from Wakefield, known for his emotional performances centred around the acoustic guitar and a powerful vocal.
Tickets: 0343 208 6016 5
The Square Chapel, Saturday May 20 at 7.30pm Now in their 16th year of touring, one of the UK’s best tribute to Bowie bands promise an electrifying performance which will take you on a musical journey through the greatest hits of David Bowie.
Tickets: 0343 208 6016
Absolute Bowie 6 Gods of Carnage
The Viaduct Theatre, Halifax, Friday May 19 and Saturday May 20, daily at 7.30pm and a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm
After an altercation between their sons, two sets of parents meet to discuss how best to deal with the repercussions of their conflict and soon end up confronting issues in their own lives and relationships. Tickets: 01422 849227
7 Greatest Days
Palace Theatre, Manchester, from now until Saturday May 27
The musical based on Take That follows five boy bandobsessed best friends in the 1990s, who reunite over 20 years later to see their heartthrobs one last time in what could be the Greatest Days of their life.
The musical stars the award-winning Kym Marsh, who shot to stardom in the noughties band Hear’Say and now best known as a presenter on the BBC’s Morning Live.
Tickets: www.atgtickets.com/