For over 70 years now, Pitlochry Festival Theatre has been Highland Perthshire’s artistic heart and soul. Established in 1951 as Scotland’s Theatre in the Hills, we offer a theatrical experience unique in the UK; a summer season performed in repertory, allowing audiences to enjoy eight performances, all performed by a resident company of actors.
This year, we have an incredibly passionate, fun, challenging, and entertaining programme lined up. It’s packed with a great mix of stories that’ll transport you to New York, Devonshire, Chicago, Liverpool, Oklahoma, Yorkshire, and, of course, you’ll be traversing Scotland.
We are proud to continue to be the nation’s largest producing Theatre located in beautiful Pitlochry reaching audiences and artists from across Scotland, and we cannot wait to spend next year deepening our relationships locally, regionally, and nationally.
Tickets for the 2024 Summer Season are on sale now so plan your visit now! We can't wait to welcome you to an exciting new season of theatre and entertainment.
Our Summer Season 2024 will include premières, musicals, opera and two special revivals.
Main Auditorium productions include revivals of the musicals Footloose, co-produced with New Wolsey Theatre and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, the world première of Frances Poet’s new stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, co-produced with OVO, and the return of the theatre’s award-winning production of Shirley Valentine.
The Studio will stage premières of Harry Mould’s new play The Brenda Line, and a co production with Scotland’s Firebrand Theatre Company in association with Dr Kerri Andrews of Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed.
Our outside Amphitheatre will see the return of Elizabeth Newman’s acclaimed adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much loved The Secret Garden, and we’ll unite with the Scots Opera Project to produce a Gaelic and Scots Language version of Purcell’s baroque masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas.
2024 Summer Season Summary
Auditorium
Footloose, 31 May – 26 September
A Pitlochry Festival Theatre and New Wolsey Theatre Production
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, 7 June – 28 September
Sense and Sensibility, 21 June – 27 September
A Pitlochry Festival Theatre and OVO Production
Shirley Valentine, 4 July – 28 September
Studio
Nan Shepherd: Naked and Unashamed, 24 May – 6 July
A co-production between Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Firebrand Theatre Company in collaboration with Dr Kerri Andrews
The Brenda Line, 15 August – 18 September
Amphitheatre
The Secret Garden, 12 July – 22 August
Dido and Aeneas, 31 August – 15 September
A co-production between Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Scots Opera Project
