Category: Events

Performance art platform Diasporas Now announces the next stop of their 2023-2024 UK tour at Humber Street Gallery in Hull from 6pm-11pm on Saturday 27 January.

2024 promises to be an exciting year for Hull Museums and gallery as the year’s exhibition programme is today revealed.

Our theatre reviewer, Sam Sims, shares his thoughts on Red Riding Hood, Middle Child’s panto at Social on Humber Street.

From Bowie to Billy Pearce, Sinatra to Steff Todd and the dance stars of tomorrow, there’s something for everyone in the latest 2024 shows unveiled at Hull Theatres.

Raymond Gubbay Limited is pleased to announce that Varna International Ballet and Orchestra will return to the UK after a hugely successful debut in 2023. This season they will bring much-loved classical ballets The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty to Hull New Theatre from 29 -31 January 2024.

Just in time for Christmas, Hull City Hall announces a ‘magnificent seven’ with everything from comedy and music to West End favourites and a ghost or two.

A new exhibition celebrating disability will open at Ferens Art Gallery in February 2024.

Tickets are selling fast for the latest Middle Child panto, which opens at Social on Thursday 21 December, with a story chosen by last year’s audience.

Cut price early bird tickets will go on sale online for the region’s biggest music festival, Humber Street Sesh, which will take place on Hull Marina on Saturday 3 August 2024.

What We Do is an exhibition that shows the outcomes of the creative programme at Artlink Hull and 87 Gallery. Work by artists and participants are brought together in celebration of work created within and outside of the gallery.

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds is back with a monumental new 17-date (19 shows) UK and Ireland arena tour, arriving just in time to celebrate 130 years since the publication of H.G. Wells’ dark Victorian tale.

Our theatre reviewer, Sam Sims, shares his thoughts on Pinocchio at Hull Truck Theatre. Christmas can’t be here already can it? It seems like only yesterday I […]

Have you ever wondered what happened to Toad when he left prison!? Well this Christmas, let East Riding Theatre take you into the world of Toad, Mole and Badger as they venture into East Riding in the brand new play, Toad on the Wolds, proudly sponsored by Lairgate Financial, written by Gordon Meredith and directed by Richard Avery.

This Christmas celebrate the warmth, fun and joy that friendship can bring with a brand-new production at Hull Truck Theatre.

A new exhibition, created by a group of young people with additional needs and/or disabilities in Hull and inspired by their experience of using public transport, will open at the Streetlife Museum on Monday 27 November.

Wands are at the ready as the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra prepares for a dazzling performance of film and festive favourites.

A free festival which attracted fans of live music into city centre pubs when it was launched in September promises to deliver more of the same when it returns for a second run this weekend.

There’s more than Ten Good Reasons to celebrate as Australian icon Jason Donavan brings his fantastic show to Hull City Hall next year.

Pulses will be racing, toes a-tapping and funny bones tickled as Hull City Hall welcomes beautiful burlesque and brazen brass next year.

A new theatre festival showcasing plays by local writers is coming to Hull next summer.

Pocklington Arts Centre is proud to announce its very first in-house theatre production. The Elves & the Shoemaker: Save Christmas is an original adaptation of the familiar traditional tale.

Hull Truck Theatre are teaming up with The Octagon Theatre Bolton and Derby Theatre to present a compelling new retelling of George Orwell’s timeless fable – Animal Farm (Wednesday 27 March – Saturday 13 April).

Hull Truck Theatre will soon welcome audiences – including families, schools and groups – to celebrate the festive season as they present their Christmas production of Pinocchio from Friday 24 November – Sunday 31 December.

Hull Truck Theatre are encouraging audiences to visit the theatre via rail to enjoy their festive production of Pinocchio, sponsored by Hull Trains, with a special incentive.

The Three Wise Women is an accessible and affordable show taking place in libraries across East Yorkshire.

We had a chat with actor Eliza Blair, to find out how rehearsals are going for this year’s festive production of the much-loved classic tale Pinocchio (Friday 24 November – Sunday 31 December).

Direct from the West End, The London Palladium, and the iconic Royal Albert Hall, Whitney – Queen of the Night will visit Connexin Live, Hull on Saturday, 14 September 2024.

Pop star Jay McGuiness is appearing in the edge-of-your-seat, supernatural thriller 2:22 – A Ghost Story at Hull New Theatre next year.

This festive season, join Pinocchio on the adventure of a lifetime in this heart-warming and fantastical tale about coming of age, loyalty, hardship, redemption and unconditional love. 

Hull engineer Paul Deighton has created an artwork guitar inspired by rock legend Mick Ronson. Crafted from aluminium sheets, the guitar will be a star feature in Turn and Face the Strange – the Mick Ronson Story at Hull New Theatre in December.

The true story of the Calendar Girls launched a global phenomenon: a million copycat calendars, a record-breaking movie, now celebrating 20 years since its release, the fastest-selling stage play in British theatre history, and now a musical written by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth, which coined the term “craughing” – the act of crying and laughing at the same time!

Get ready for a Christmas celebration like no other as André Rieu, the world-renowned maestro of classical music, brings his inimitable holiday spirit to the silver screen with his forthcoming André Rieu’s White Christmas cinema event. 

Hull New Theatre’s salon will set the hairdryers going when the international musical phenomenon Hairspray opens for appointments next year.

Hull-born Liam Mower stars alongside Stephen Murray as Edward Scissorhands in New Adventures’ stunning interpretation of the iconic 1990s film of the same name, with choreography from Matthew Bourne.

A writer, English teacher and musician from East Yorkshire will tell tales from his travels in Denmark when he speaks at a Nordic cultural centre in Hull later this month.

Hull city centre is getting ready to rock with a free live music programme geared to pulling more people into the pubs and café bars.

The ultimate tribute to one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, The Billy Joel Songbook heads to Hull City Hall on 4 April 2024.

An ambitious brand-new project working with community groups and choirs to create an Opera in a Day is hosting its sharing celebration as part of Freedom Festival – and you’re invited to come along and watch.

Toad’s unfortunate antics have once again landed him in jail, and the timing couldn’t be worse!

Embarking on a journey of creative exploration and empowerment – Freedom Talks at Freedom Festival Hull.

Tens of thousands of people are gearing up to attend Yorkshire’s five-day international arts festival, set to unfold across various indoor and outdoor venues in both Hull and, making its debut, Bridlington.

Cast members of the iconic hit musical Grease recently made a special visit to the newly opened Beverley Hills Diner in Beverley, East Yorkshire.

“In these crazy times, it can be hard to keep going, but keep on going we must. So, what keeps you going?”

A terrific trio of shows heads to Hull Theatres next year, including a tribute to one of rock’s greatest icons, a duelling piano showdown and an adventure into a mystical temple.

A choral anniversary, a radical book fair and a festival of Hull’s heritage are among the events which are supporting the relaunch of a city centre venue as a cultural and community destination.

Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures delivers blades of glory in their dance theatre production of the classic Tim Burton movie Edward Scissorhands at Hull New Theatre next spring.

Hull’s famous international arts festival has announced the full programme line-up of their summer festival via their website. Audiences are encouraged to explore the page to learn about the artists and shows appearing on the streets, theatres, galleries and many places in between across Hull City Centre between Wednesday 30 August and Sunday 3 September.