A WIDE variety of shows feature in York Theatre Royal’s autumn and winter line-up.

The season stars with Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning production of the J B Priestley classic An Inspector Calls from September 14 – 22, and has been hailed as ‘the theatrical event of its generation’ and has won more awards than any other play in history.

After co-producing When We Are Married, York Theatre Royal and Northern Broadsides join forces for They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! October 5 – 13. Deborah McAndrew’s new adaptation transposes Dario Fo’s political satire of civil disobedience Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! to Brexit Britain.

York Theatre Royal and tutti frutti present Snow Queen September 27 to October 13. Ivan Stott returns to tutti frutti to create memorable music and songs in an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story by Mike Kenny and directed by Wendy Harris.

The Lakes Season brings to York productions from Theatre by the Lake in Keswick - Sense & Sensibility from November 6 – 10, Jeeves & Wooster In Perfect Nonsense, November 16-17 and Alan Bennett’s Olivier Award-winning comedy Single Spies, November 13-14.

London Classic Theatre present Charlotte Keatley’s My Mother Said I Never Should, November 20 – 24, the most commonly performed work by a female playwright worldwide. The play earned Keatley the George Devine Award, as well as the Manchester Evening News Award for Best New Play.

Morecambe and Wise’s Christmas TV shows are the stuff of legend and An Evening of Eric & Ernie at Christmas on December 1 promises a brilliant homage filled with their famous comedy sketches.

Also at Christmas is The Elves and the Shoemakers, December 11to January 5, a version of the Grimm fairy tale by Mike Kenny and directed by Juliet Forster. And of course Christmas and the New Year at York Theatre Royal wouldn’t be Christmas without pantomime and Berwick Kaler who celebrates 40 years as York’s Dame with The Grand Old Dame of York from December 13

For more information and tickets contact the box office at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk or phone 01904 623568