Take a look at what’s going on in York this week.
York Restaurant Week is back! There are so many delicious deals on at some of the city’s most-loved eateries. There’s musical fun with Six at the Grand Opera House and The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Joseph Rowntree Theatre, and Charlie Higson and Jim Moir are talking epic history at York Theatre Royal.
See the full guide below.
What’s on in York this week: Monday 13 – Friday 17 October
All week
York Restaurant Week
Discover delicious dining on a budget with York Restaurant Week. Enjoy a huge variety of offers on food and drink, from over 100 eateries in York city centre, all temptingly priced between £5 and £30. That’s fourteen whole days to explore some of York’s best venues and indulge with friends and family. Take a look at Seven tasty new offers for 2025 and some delicious deals for £5.
- Various venues
- Mon 13 – Sun 26 Oct
- Various times
- More info
Six
The crowning glory of Broadway, the West End and beyond, the international smash hit musical SIX makes its royal return following its previous sold out success! From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII take to the mic to tell their tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. These Queens may have green sleeves but their lipstick is rebellious red.
- Grand Opera House, Cumberland Street, York YO1 9SW
- Tue 14 – Sat 18 Oct
- Various times
- More info
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Come and see the amazing combination of Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Peter Parnell and Victor Hugo brought to life for York using some of the best performers Yorkshire has to offer! A larger than life production from the team that brought the UK amateur premiere of Falsettos to the Joseph Rowntree Theatre in 2023. With powerful themes of love, acceptance and the nature of good and evil, together with its sweeping score, this will be a show like nothing you’ve seen before! Read our review here.
- Joseph Rowntree Theatre, Haxby Road, York YO31 8TA
- Fri 10 – Sat 18 Oct
- 7:30pm (2:30pm Sat matinee)
- More info
Monday
Charlie Higson and Jim Moir: A Very Short but Epic History of the Monarchy
36 kings. 5 queens. 2 comedy legends. Join Charlie Higson and Jim Moir (AKA Vic Reeves) for the rip-roaring story of every English ruler since Harold was shot in the eye at the Battle of Hastings.
Joining us live on stage, Charlie and Jim will share stories from their incredible comic collaborations over thirty years, including Shooting Stars, Randell and Hopkirk Deceased, and The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. Then they will take the plunge into the storied history of this most treasured of institutions. Bloody treachery? Check. Unruly incest? Check. Short parliaments? Check. A couple of Cromwells? Check.
- York Theatre Royal, St. Leonard’s Place, York, YO1 7HD
- Mon 13 Oct
- 7:30pm
- More info
WET WET WET
Following on from a sold out tour earlier this year which saw them perform to tens of thousands across the country, the iconic Wet Wet Wet have announced a huge tour of the UK for 2025. Wet Wet Wet have sold more than 15 million singles and albums to date and have featured in the UK Singles Chart and Album Chart for an incredible time period of over 500 weeks. Their albums have been certified 20x platinum in the UK alone. Joining Wet Wet Wet will be special guest Heather Small, the voice of M People.
- York Barbican, Paragon St, York, YO10 4AH
- Mon 13 Oct
- 7:30pm
- More info
Wednesday
Kate Butch x ComedySoc Stand-Up
Join the York Comedy Society for another screamer of a stand-up show, joined by menace to society, mighty RuPaul’s Drag Race UK competitor, and – most influentially – alumni of the society, Kate Butch.
- Spark:York, 17-21 Piccadilly, York, YO1 9PB
- Wed 15 Oct
- 7pm
- More info
Thursday
The Signal-Man
Brought to life by James Swanton, The Signal-Man is one of the most powerful ghost stories of all time and certainly the most frightening ever written by Charles Dickens. It is paired here with The Trial for Murder, in which Dickens treats the supernatural with just as much terrifying gravity.
- York Medical Society, 23 Stonegate, York YO1 8AW
- Thu 16 – Tue 28 Oct
- Multiple times
- More info
