ALADDIN is The Lakes Players 20th anniversary production - and it has all the hallmarks of being their best yet.

Running from Tuesday, January 20, until Sunday, January 25, at The Lakes School, Troutbeck Bridge, director Stewart Hart and his Lakes laughter makers have pulled out all the stops to create a fabulous feast of flying carpets, elephants, camels with plenty of glitz and glamour.

As usual special effects, lighting and sound is courtesy of Purple Sheep of London, and it wouldn't be a Lakes Players show without the talents of the Maria Francis Dance School.

Centre stage as Aladdin is Becky Ives, Princess Lotus Flower is played by Rachel Woods, Anthony Dean takes the role of Abanazer, Simon Yaxley is in the guise of the Genie, and Gareth Lambert plays Wishee Washee.

Tickets are available from the Royal Oak pub in Bowness or available online at www.lakesplayers.co.uk.

Evening performances start at 7pm

Matinees start at 1pm; no evening performance on the Sunday.

Top clarinettist Emma Johnson teams up for a performance at Kendal Town Hall on Wednesday, January 21 (1pm), as part of the Kendal Midday Concert Club fortnightly series, with an another distinguished musician, pianist John Lenehan, in a 'crossover' programme, including pieces by Brahms, Bernstein and Gershwin. Emma has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras and recorded several acclaimed CDs. John’s equally regarded and appeared with leading orchestras at home and abroad. KMCC Performances start at 1pm with snack lunches available from 11.50am.

The Lake Artists Society Winter Exhibition at Rheged, Penrith, features work for sale by 34 members of the esteemed group. On display are paintings, drawings, sculptures in stone and ceramic as well as original lithographs and many other media. The show - which runs until February 1 - includes rising star of ceramic sculptures Ing-based Sally Toms, printmaker and painter Rebecca Payn of Blencarn and Kendalian portrait artist Catherine MacDiarmid. Open daily from 10.30am-4.30pm.

Peter Pan is running at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake until Saturday, January 31. Fly with Peter and Wendy on a magical adventure to Neverland and back, from the safety of the Darlings’ nursery to the underground home of the Lost Boys, the Indians’ encampment, the Mermaid’s lagoon (home of the ticking crocodile) and the pirate ship captained by the dastardly Captain Hook and his fearsome crew. The tale of the boy who would not grow up is one of the most famous childhood stories of all time. Box office 017687-74411.

Lines of Ascent features the work William Heaton Cooper produced for the Fell and Rock Climbing Club guides for 50 years from the 1930s onwards. The exhibition at Grasmere's Heaton Cooper Studio includes guides and journals and climbing photographs from the 1930s and 1940s from Heaton Cooper’s private album, his paintings that reference the mid-twentieth century climbing scene, plus the towering and dramatic works of Julian Cooper.

The Heron Theatre at Beetham presents The Haunters tomorrow night (Friday, 7.30pm) in a new adaptation by Patrick Prior, which has drawing comparisons to The Woman in Black. Based on the classic gothic story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the chilling tale begins when a renowned doctor is found dead in the house by the river and his brother is determined to find out the cause of death. His investigations take him through foggy Victorian streets to dark corners of graveyards on a journey which hurtles towards a terrifying truth. Box office 015395-64283.