Share a secret this New Year, as a new British Musical, commissioned by Leeds' West Yorkshire Playhouse, premieres on the Quarry stage, adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel by award-winning Leeds writer Garry Lyons.
As winter winds blow across the Yorkshire Moors, recently-orphaned Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, the austere home of an uncle she has never met.
The wind howls around the building, but is it the wind Mary hears or the distant sound of crying from within the house?
Conceited, stubborn and bewildered by unfamiliar surroundings Mary's life is transformed when she comes across a garden which is all but forgotten.
Placing her trust in local lad Dickon, Mary breathes life into the abandoned garden and is determined to uncover the family secrets hidden inside the house, changing the fortunes of Misselthwaite and all who live there forever.
The musical runs until January 23. Details from the box office on 0113 213 7700.
PANTO: Jack and Jill – Montgomery Theatre, Sheffield.
The Wales Methodist Panto Players present Jack and Jill. Curtain, 7pm on January 15-16. Montgomery Hall, Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 2LG.
Call 0114 272 0455 for details.
TOMORROWART/COMEDY: Comedians from the 1940s to now – Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
Drawn from the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Comedians from the 1940s to now presents an array of iconic images of some of Britain's best-loved entertainers.
From Frankie Howerd and Monty Python to celebrated double acts such as French and Saunders, this collection of intimate portraits by photographers including Annie Leibovitz and Henri Cartier Bresson captures the public and private faces of British comedy.
The exhibition is free and it runs to March 20, 10am-5pm but is closed on Sundays.
Graves Art Gallery, Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 1XZ. Call 0114 278 2600. Visit
www.museums-sheffield.org.ukBALLET: Sheffield Lyceum Theatre.
Moscow City Ballet was formed in 1988 by the distinguished Russian Choreographer Victor Smirnov-Golovanov.
A highly acclaimed ex-soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet, Smirnov-Golovanov enjoys bringing his heritage of classical ballet in the Moscow style to audiences including young ballet-goers, all over the world.
They have visited Korea, Japan, Taiwan, USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Poland, as well as enjoying huge popularity in Russia.
The company perform a popular classical repertoire, including these two shows: an exhilarating traditional Russian version of the all-time fairy tale favourite Cinderella alongside a beautifully designed version of Romeo and Juliet, produced by Victor Smirnov-Golovanov himself.
It runs to Saturday, January 16. Call 0114 249 6000.
SATURDAYINDIE: Sheffield Leadmill: Delphic.
Manchester's highly rated Delphic bring their January tour to The Leadmill on Saturday, January 16.
They cite as influences Factory Records, the Hacienda and acid house, but instead of recalling the slow, slothful indie-dance of "baggy" they've tapped into the rapturous technotronica of their home city, pre-Madchester.
Doors open at 7pm Price: £7 plus £1 P&P. Age limit: 14s-plus. Call 0114 221 2861.
MONDAYTHEATRE: OSCAR Wilde's comedy, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, comes to Sheffield's Lyceum Theatre Monday, January 18 to Saturday, January 23.
Bill Kenwright's rarely seen and acclaimed adaptation of the play also features an all star cast, making his comedy debut, the multi-talented Lee Mead stars as Lord Arthur Savile.
Following his success in hit BBC show Any Dream Will Do, he played the role of Joseph in Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Techni-colour Dreamcoat for 72 sold-out weeks in London's West End.
Mead will be performing opposite legendary entertainer Gary Wilmot, fresh from his recent visit to the Lyceum in smash hit show Chicago and previous West End performances in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Copacabana and Me and My Girl.
Kate O'Mara, star of such TV hits as Dynasty, Howard's Way, Bad Girls and was recently at the Lyceum in An Ideal Husband plays Lady Windermere. David Ross, who recently starred in the BBC hit sitcom The Green Green Grass, and whose further television credits include Vanity Fair, Red Dwarf and Goodnight Sweetheart plays The Dean, and Derren Nesbitt, best known for his role as Chief Inspector Jordan in the television series Special Branch and as the Gestapo Officer Major von Happen in film classic Where Eagles Dare, will be playing the role of Herr Frederick Winkelkopf.
Lord Arthur Savile is deliriously happy, a pillar of Victorian society on the verge of marriage to the lovely Sybil Merton, when a brief departure from late Nineteenth century convention leads him to an encounter with a chilling clairvoyant called Podgers.
Podgers secretly reveals that at some point in Arthur's life, he is destined to commit murder.
To protect his future wife, Arthur decides he must commit this bloody deed before he marries. As he searches for the most convenient person to sacrifice, chaos ensues in this highly entertaining comedy of upper-class morality.
Call 0114 249 6000.
WEDNESDAYTHEATRE: Roald Dahl's Danny Champion of the World, Doncaster Civic Theatre.
Wednesday January 20 to Saturday, January 30 (excluding Sunday, January 24) 7pm (Sat Mats 2.30pm).
Danny lives happily and peacefully in a gypsy caravan with his devoted father.
Until one night his world is turned upside down when he awakes to find his father has failed to return after a night of poaching.
Fearing that his father may be in grave danger at the hands of nasty local landowner Victor Hazell, Danny leaves the caravan and sets off on a courageous journey to rescue him.
Tickets: £8.50, conc. and friends £7, family ticket £25, groups before December 31st £5.50, after that date £6.
Call 01302 342349,
www.doncastercivic.co.uk