Charities and Patronages

York Theatre Royal has been producing great drama in the

beautiful city of York for over 250 years and is one of the

country’s leading producing theatres. Each year the theatre

entertains over 200,000 people with its wide variety of

performances, events and activities including the much loved

annual pantomime starring Berwick Kaler, the UK’s longest

running Dame.

York Theatre Royal houses two main theatre spaces, the main house

seating up to 840 people and the intimate studio setting seating just

over 100. Each space is full of character and offers a variety of shows

including drama, music, comedy, dance and musical theatre.

Over the last ten years York Theatre Royal’s work has expanded to

include collaborations with the wider community and school groups

both on and off stage. The theatre has seen an increase in the number

of young people wanting to get involved and as a result they now

have one of the largest youth theatre groups in the country with over

300 members.

In recent years, the theatre has had huge success in terms of number

of attendees and various awards recognising their work for The

Railway Children hosted at the National Railway Museum and then

transferred to the Old Eurostar terminal at Warterloo, and the large

scale production The York Mystery Plays 2012 involving over 1,000

members of the community.