Arts

Strictly Come Dancing fans will be overjoyed to hear that the full line-up of celebrities and their professional partners for next year’s Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour has been announced.

One of Derbyshire’s oldest pubs is on the hunt for help to solve the mystery of a skeleton rumoured to have been found in its ancient tunnels.

Etsy illustration sensation Katie Abey is to open a new shop in Matlock next week, promising ‘a world of its own’ inspired by fantasy fiction.

A temporary ice rink will be built in Heanor this weekend, bringing added thrills and spills to the town’s traditional Christmas market day.

After going against the grain with their beautifully made but uncharacteristically straight western True Grit, the unorthodox Coen brothers offer up this witty, ironic, outrageously funny and achingly sad collection of western stories, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, writes Natalie Stendall.

The Derby-based painter John McDonald has donated one of his striking creations for a silent auction to support the community engagement programme at Déda, the city-based organisation that aims to enrich people’s lives through dance and the arts.

Crime writer Michael Connelly joins the greats of the genre. Reporter Charlie Bullough speaks to the American author about his big award win, his new book and the future.

The Ripley and District Heritage Trust is gearing up for the launch of its republished classic history of the town, first produced by members of the Women’s Institute in 1931.

Allelujah! – the new play by Alan Bennett which received its world premiere at the Bridge Theatre in London – will be screened in cinemas.

Northern Ballet has announced a major national tour of a new ballet for children.

Crich Tramway Village will hold its annual Starlight Extravaganza from Monday to Saturday, October 29 to November 3.

A Derbyshire woman who claimed to have murdered a man who raped her has spoken to a top psychologist for a new TV show in a bid to discover if she is telling the truth.

Academy Award nominee and TONY and Olivier award winner Ian McKellen stars in King Lear which will be beamed live to Derbyshire cinemas from London’s West End.

The first walkers of this year’s Autumn Footprints festival laced up their boots on Saturday, kicking off 16 days of treks across mid Derbyshire.

Wirksworth Festival is opening today (Friday, September 7) with a packed programme of entertainment.

Elvis Presley’s legendary ’68 Comeback Special will hit the big screen in celebration of its 50th anniversary.

Heart-warming animated tale Sgt Stubby is bounding into Chesterfield’s Cineworld cinema on Friday, August 10.