A frantic farce, a moving First World War drama, a Murder mystery and an American theatre classic are all part of the new season unveiled by Bingley Little Theatre.

The autumn season gets underway in September with a production of Philip King’s See How They Run. Set in 1943 in the living-room of the vicarage of Merton-cum-Middlewick, it’s a knockabout farce involving drunks, a well-trained dog, a Cockney maid, a Bishop and an escaped German prisoner.

Penelope Toop is a former actress and the wife of the local vicar. When Miss Skillon, a churchgoer, arrives to gossip with the vicar and complain about the latest ‘outrages’ that Penelope has caused, rumours fly and complications multiply for the vicar’s wife. The comedy at Bingley Arts Centre runs from September 13 to 18. For tickets, ring (01274) 432000.

Other productions lined up for autumn include Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, JB Priestley’s The Good Companions, Ray Cooney’s It Runs In The Family, Leslie Sands’s Intend To Murder and David Haigh’s My Boy Jack, about a man who loses his balance when devotion to family and country clash.

The play is set against the First World War; Rudyard Kipling’s son Jack is determined to fight, but the Army and Navy both reject him because of his poor eyesight. Undaunted, Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission.

But when Jack goes to war and is reported missing, his father’s anguish and guilt affects the whole family.

The play has been broadcast as a powerful TV drama starring its writer, David Haigh, as Kipling, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe as Jack, and Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall as his mother.

Over at the Alhambra, the DM Academy will be performing an ‘energetic, action-packed evening of dance and song’. Earth, Wind And Fire will feature high-energy dance routines to disco and pop hits such as Duran Duran’s Planet Earth, Michael Jackson’s Earth Song, Bette Midler’s Wind Beneath My Wings and an Earth, Wind And Fire Megamix.

Youngsters at the Shipley-based dance academy are busy rehearsing for the show, which runs on Friday, September 3, and Saturday, September 4, at 7.15pm, with a Saturday matinee at 2.15pm. For tickets, ring (01274) 432000.

Christmas is still a long way off, but Yeadon Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society already has festive cheer in mind. The society will be staging a production of the Flint Street Nativity this autumn. The comedy, about a school play, runs at Yeadon Town Hall from October 6 to 9. For tickets, ring (0113) 2505587.