Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Located in Pitlochry and founded in 1951, the Pitlochry Festival Theatre is one of the finest attractions in the local area. Audiences visiting the Theatre in the Hills expect shows that are joyful, entertaining, reflective, ambitious and diverse!

The Pitlochry Festival Theatre Summer Season offers a unique theatrical experience, with six productions in daily repertoire. No other UK theatre attempts this extraordinary feat and nowhere else in the UK can you experience such a large resident ensemble of actors, drawn from far and wide, performing multiple roles in multiple shows – musicals, comedies and dramas.

The 2025 Summer Season @ Pitlochry Festival Theatre

The Summer Season runs from May - September and includes premières, new musicals, revivals and returning productions.

Main Auditorium productions include the musicals Grease, produced with Blackpool Grand Theatre, Elizabeth Newman’s new stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, co-produced with Derby Theatre; Patrick Barlow’s hilarious adaptation of The 39 Steps and the return of the Theatre’s acclaimed production of Sunshine on Leith.

The Studio season includes the premières of Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir This is a Gift, which featured in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 37 Plays readings in 2023; Milly Sweeney’s new play Water Colour, co-produced with the Byre Theatre; Nessie, a new Scottish musical by Shonagh Murray about the Loch Ness Monster, co-produced with Capital Theatres, and A Toast Fae The Lassies, John  Binnie and Alyson Orr’s new musical play that explores the life of Robert Burns through the perspectives of the three women who knew him best. The season will also see the return of the hugely popular Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed, in co-production with Firebrand Theatre Company.

2025 SEASON DATES

9th-17th May – Water Colour – Studio
30th May - 14th June - Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed – Studio
18th June – 27th September – Grease – Main Auditorium
24th June – 11th September – This is a Gift – Studiov 27th June – 25th September – The Great Gatsby– Main Auditorium
9th July – 16th August - Nessie – Studio
11th July – 26th September – The 39 Steps – Main Auditorium
25th July – 27th September – Sunshine on Leith – Main Auditorium
29th August – 24th September – A Toast Fae The Lassies – Studio

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