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Our City. Our Season. Welcome to 2026 🎉🎊🥳

A celebration of community, world premieres, new voices, classics, and fresh work that invites audiences to connect with the life of the building and far beyond.

To introduce the season, we asked our community participants to make a special film at locations across Dundee.

✨Friends' exclusive presale is NOW OPEN!
✨General Booking opens Fri 21 Nov, 12pm.

See what's coming up ⬇️

✈️ The High Life
27 March - 4 April and 6 - 9 May 2026
The High Life returns in a new musical spectacular featuring all four original cast members - Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart.

🎤 Rep Stripped Festival
April 2026
Dundee Rep Theatre’s platform for fresh work, new voices and bold ideas, this time under the creative direction of Fraser Scott.

🎓 Educating Rita
Sat 23 May – Sat 13 Jun 2026
Willy Russell’s award-winning modern classic returns in a funny, tender and life-affirming new production by award-winning director, Debbie Hannan.

🎶 The Singer
A new piece of gig theatre by Cora Bissett with Jamie Rea, with songs by multi-award-winning KT Tunstall.
Previews: Wed 29 Jul – Sat 1 Aug
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Aug
Touring: Sept

🧽The Steamie
Thu 27 Aug – Sat 12 Sept 2026
Step inside a 1950s Glasgow washhouse on Hogmanay, where the water’s hot and the gossips even hotter.

📰A History of Paper
Wed 16 – Sat 19 Sept 2026
A new production of a magical musical about unbounding joy, impossible grief, a man, a woman and the little bits of paper that make up a life. Starring Alan Cumming and Shirley Henderson, directed by Andrew Panton (@andrewpanton).

❄️ The Snow Queen
Sat 28 Nov – Wed 30 Dec 2026
From award-winning writing duo, Noisemaker (Oor Wullie, Ceilidh, Scots), this Snow Stopping Musical returns as a soaring story of friendship, courage and the magic within us all. Directed by Emily Oulton.

🎟️Link to our full season in bio

RECollect | Four decades of Dundee's dancing community

Join us this summer in celebrating 40 years of shared history with RECollect, a new work created with and performed by our local dancing community in collaboration with our dance tutors and choreographer Bridie Gane.

Inspired by Scottish Dance Theatre's archive and the people of Dundee who have joined us on the dance floor, RECollect promises a celebratory evening of dance for everyone.
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DATES
Fri 26 – Sat 27 Jun
Book in bio!

Looking for a welcoming spot to pause, refuel, or settle in for a while?

At Rep Cafe we serve hot drinks, snacks, soup and light bites fresh from our kitchen. With free Wi-Fi, power points, and plenty of space to work or unwind, this is the perfect space to work from, catch up with friends, or simply recharge.

📅 Open Tue – Sat, 10am–4pm
See you soon!

Educating Rita rehearsals in full swing! 🎓✂️

Don't miss this funny, tender and life-affirming new production the Willy Russell classic ❤️

📅Tue 26 May – Sat 13 Jun

Featuring:
Grace Galloway (Rita) @gracegallowayxx
Richard Conlon (Frank) @conrlon

Photography: @alastairmorephotography

#EducatingRita #Dundee #Theatre #WillyRussell

Educating Rita rehearsals in full swing! 🎓✂️

Don't miss this funny, tender and life-affirming new production the Willy Russell classic ❤️

📅Tue 26 May – Sat 13 Jun

Featuring:
Grace Galloway (Rita) @gracegallowayxx
Richard Conlon (Frank) @conrlon

Photography: @alastairmorephotography

#EducatingRita #Dundee #Theatre #WillyRussell

Educating Rita rehearsals in full swing! 🎓✂️

Don't miss this funny, tender and life-affirming new production the Willy Russell classic ❤️

📅Tue 26 May – Sat 13 Jun

Featuring:
Grace Galloway (Rita) @gracegallowayxx
Richard Conlon (Frank) @conrlon

Photography: @alastairmorephotography

#EducatingRita #Dundee #Theatre #WillyRussell

Meet the Choreographer | Emilie Leriche and Edouard Hue

Take a peek behind the curtain and step inside Scottish Dance Theatre’s studio for a rare chance to see how a new dance work is created.

Hosted by Artistic Director Joan Clevillé (@joanclevilledance), these events offer the opportunity to discover their Emilie Leriche (@eleriche) and Edouard Hue (@edouardhuebvd) sources of inspiration and distinctive choreographic languages.

Be the first to glimpse these new works, with live excerpts performed by the company’s dancers.

Thursday 4 June: Meet Emilie Leriche and Rotten Work
Thursday 11 June: Meet Edouard Hue and The Game of Life

Book on our site.

☀️ What does our audience think of Concerts for a Summer’s Night?

We’re bringing it back this June across Scotland!

Tue 16 June — Strathpeffer Pavilion @strathpavilion
Wed 17 June — Aberdeen Art Gallery @abdnartmuseums
Thu 18 June — V&A Dundee @vadundee
Fri 19 June — National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh @nationalmuseumsscotland
Sat 20 June — Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow @kelvingroveartgalleryandmuseum

Tickets via link in bio.
scottishensemble.co.uk/programme/2025-26/concerts-for-a-summers-night-2026/

New shows just announced🔥⬇️

😂 Craig Hill: You’re Not Even Safe Up The Back
Strap yourself in for an adrenaline-packed and brilliant night out!
Fri 26 Feb 2027 (@craighillcomedian)

🕺ABBA Forever
The tribute show that captivates audiences from the opening refrain to the final sing-along chorus.
Sat 27 Feb 2027 (@sweeneyentertainmentsofficial)

💍Chunky Jewellery
The story of two single mothers navigating life, death and everything in-between.
Wed 10 Mar 2027 (@barrowland_ballet)

📃 It's Not Where You Start
A powerful, uplifting, and deeply personal storytelling experience.
Thu 11 Mar 2027 (@itsnotwhereyoustartbook)

🎶Blue Rose Code
Ross Wilson aka Blue Rose Code writes songs straight from - and to - the heart.
Fri 12 Mar 2027 (@bluerosecode)

Introducing Rotten Work & The Game of Life ✨

@ScottishDanceTheatre celebrates four decades of innovation with the world premiere of two new creations by internationally acclaimed choreographers Emilie Leriche (@eleriche) and Edouard Hue (@edouardhuebvd)⚡

Rotten Work, choreographed byEmilie Leriche,offers a poetic, slow-burning choreography that lingers in moments of connection.
Inspired by puzzle and pattern, The Game of Life explores how individuals come together into a living, evolving whole without surrendering their uniqueness.

Be the first one to catch Scottish Dance Theatre's new double bill at Dundee Rep Theatre this June!

Fri 19 & Sat 20 Jun

Photographer:Genevieve Reeves (@genvv)
Dancers featured: Ben McEwen (@benmcewendance) & Molly Danter (@thingsverythingish)

JUST ANNOUNCED 🎉🙌 The Singer will make its WORLD PREMIERE at the @traversetheatre this August as part of TravFest26!

Featuring music and lyrics by Grammy Award-nominated KT Tunstall, The Singer is a powerful story of music, identity and connection, and the fight for a deaf artist to be truly seen and heard.

Performed in both Spoken English and British Sign Language.

📅 Tue 4 Aug - Sun 30 Aug

Dundee Rep Theatre and Solar Bear(@solar_bear_theatre), in collaboration with Aberdeen Performing Arts (@aberdeenperformingarts)
Music & Lyrics by KT Tunstall (@kttunstall). Book by Cora Bissett (@bissettcora)
Directed by Cora Bissett (@bissettcora)
Based on the short film The Singer by Cora Bissett (@bissettcora) and Jamie Rea (@jam6rea)

Team We Can a Kick a Ba ⚽🤩

As we look forward to the World Cup, team We Can A Kick A Ba are out and about at various Dundee Primary School’s capturing the diversity of language in the area through our love of football and being active 🙌

More on this soon, stay tuned! 👀

L-R: Alastair More, Lubna Kerr, Rodney Mountain, Amanda Lowson, Gary Jamieson

Introducing Clare Maxwell 🎉

We're delighted to announce Clare Maxwell (@claremax73) will be joining the Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance team as our new Head of Engage!

Clare is a movement director, choreographer, director and arts educator with over twenty-five years’ experience working across professional performance, higher education and socially engaged practice.

Clare says: “I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the wonderful staff and community at DRSDT, where my belief that creative engagement belongs at the heart of artistic life, is so clearly shared. I look forward to collaborating with the whole team!”

We can't wait for her to start in August 🥰

📸 @alastairmorephotography

A day in the life... or should we say, a day in the suds! 🧼📸

Here’s a wee look at what went doon at oor cast photoshoot. Between Mrs. Culfeathers tellin’ stories, Andy dodgin’ the soapy water, and the girls giein’ it laldy, it was a rerr terr fae start tae finish! 🧺🤩

We might look braw in the photos, but there was plenty o’ ditherin’ and daffin’ behind the scenes🤫✨

Tickets are flyin’ - link in bio tae grab yours! 🎟️💨