The York Mystery Plays Festival returns!!
Sunday 28th June - Sunday 5th July 2026 Every Friday through June at 2.30pm
Performed by an incredible community of local performers and creatives, it’s a powerful and unforgettable experience right in the heart of the city.
Discover all you ever wanted to know about the York Mystery Plays. Full details of the programme of plays for this summer are available here.
5th June: Dr Mike Tyler takes us "From Creation to Doomsday: Origins, Guilds and Theology of Medieval Performance"
12th June: Dr Jeremy Goldberg, University of York examines "The York Corpus Christi Play: Popular Devotion, Civic Usurpation, State Surpression - The History of the Pageant Cycle"
19th June: Dr Alan Heaven, Pageant Master, York Mystery Plays Festival 2026 will look at "Re-imagining the Sacred: Staging the plays today"
26th June: Paul Toy, Pageant Master 2010 highlights "Music in the Mysteries, from original to modern"
Save the dates, invite your friends, and come along to watch and support the amazing people bringing these plays to life.
Tickets for the talks are free, but you can reserve a space via the ticket link. There will be a collection towards the restoration of the Goodramgate gate.