Welcome to Pitlochry Festival Theatre; a Theatre for everyone, a Theatre for a lifetime.
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 nine performances, all performed by a resident company of actors.
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.
21 - 23 February 2025
View the 2025 Winter Words Programme.
Returning for its twenty-first year, the Theatre hosts an extraordinary three-day programme of interesting events, entertaining performances, delicious literary lunches with award-winning chefs, and stimulating conversations, running from 21 to 23 February and curated by our new Artistic Director Alan Cumming.
The Winter Words Festival 2025 programme of authors includes Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart, celebrated crime writer Val McDermid, Mayflies and Caledonian Road author Andrew O’Hagan and broadcaster and journalist Kirsty Wark, who will all be in conversation about their work with Alan Cumming, whose own career is the subject of a Q&A on the opening morning of the Festival.
View the 2025 Summer Season Programme.
Our Summer Season 2025 runs from May - September 2025 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.
Tickets and more information on our website, www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com
