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What's on Glasgow Theatre September 2024

Updated: 6 days ago


I spend hours each month trawling through press releases and theatre listings to make sure I don't miss anything. Here are my top picks for this month.


What's on Glasgow September 2024

 

Musical Theatre

A History of paper musical. Photo credit: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

A History of Paper is a new musical from Dundee Rep and Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. It's a gorgeous, funny, enchanting production about a man and a woman and the little bits of paper that make up a life. Catch it at Glasgow Tron Theatre from Tues 10 to Sat 14 September.


 
Burlesque musical. Photo credit: Johan Persson photography

Musical Theatre

The Scottish premier of brand-new musical Burlesque is at Theatre Royal, Glasgow from Wed 11 to Sat 28 September. Based on the hit film, this new dance-led musical features songs by Christina Aguilera, Sia, Diane Warren, Jess Foley and Todrick Hall. It's in Glasgow ahead of a planned run in London's West End!


 
Up, Visible Fictions

Play / Object Theatre

Glasgow Tron Theatre has the world premier of Visible Fiction's Up on Sat 14 September. Up is a "huge theatrical story told with everyday tiny things." The odds of perishing in a commercial plane accident are 29.4 million to one. Reassuring. Except if you’re the one.

 
 No Such Thing As a Fish Thundernerds

Comedy / Podcast

To celebrate 10 years of podcasting, the fact fiends at No Such Thing As a Fish bring their new show Thundernerds to Glasgow's King's Theatre on Tues 17 September.


 
A Night at the musicals

Concert / Musical Theatre

Four professional singers perform the best songs from London's West end and Broadway in 'A Night at the musicals' at Glasgow's King's Theatre on Wed 18 September. Starring Edward Reid from Britain's Got Talent.


 
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me play

Play / Music

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me is a re-imagining of teenage years in the 1980s. The world premier is at Glasgow's Tron Theatre from Thurs 19 to Sat 21 September. A dive into the world of mix-tapes, Walkmans, fumbled early encounters, Carlsberg on the carpet, sleepovers and long nights hanging out at the bus stop with nothing to do but smoke and dream…

 
Queenz Drag me to the disco

Drag

The glamourous all-singing, all-dancing diva's of Queenz are back with a brand new show. Drag me to the Disco is at Glasgow's King's Theatre on Sunday 22nd September and they promise more sequins and surprises than ever before.


 
Rebus A Game Called Malice Ian Rankin

Play

A new Rebus play A Game Called Malice is at Glasgow Pavilion Theatre from Mon 23 to Fri 27 September. Starring Coronation Street's Gray O’Brien as Inspector John Rebus.


 
Come from away UK tour

Musical Theatre

Smash-hit, Olivier Award Winning West End and Broadway musical Come From Away is at Glasgow King's Theatre from Tues 24 to Sat 28 September. It's a joyous story with soaring music and one of my favourite shows of the past 5 years; no ever!

 
To save the sea musical

Musical Theatre

The brilliant Sleeping Warrior Theatre Company bring their latest musical To Save the Sea to Glasgow Tron Theatre from Wed 25 to Sat 28 September. Another world premier, this one is inspired by the real-life 1995 protest against Shell dumping the Brent Spar oil store in the ocean.

 
Glasgow Kiss musical

Musical Theatre

A brand new Glaswegian musical Glasgow Kiss premiers at Glasgow Pavilion Theatre from Mon 30 September to Sat 5 October. From the writer of the Tommy Burns Story and Porno it features songs from Sipmle Minds, Primal Scream, Texas, Gerry Cinnamon and more.

 
The Loved One audio play

Audio Drama

FREE! Glasgow's Tron theatre presents The Loved One, an immersive audio drama set in Glasgow, with 7 episodes available to download for free from 2nd September. Six Scottish writers have collaborated on the project about a private investigator who moves from LA to Glasgow to find her missing daughter.

 
The Bowie Experience

Music / Tribute

The Bowie Experience brings the golden years of David Bowie to the Glasgow King's Theatre stage on Thursday 19 September.


 
Fern Brady I Gave You Milk to Drink

Comedy

Fabulous Fern Brady brings her new tour show "I Gave you Milk to Drink" to Glasgow's King's Theatre on Fri 20 and Sat 21 September.


 
A Play, A Pie and A Pint Autumn season 2024

Theatre

Scottish theatre institution A Play, A Pie and A Pint is celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and the autumn season at Glasgow's Oran Mor is looking suitably spectacular. September offerings include comedy musical Last Cabaret from Brian James O'Sullivan, corporate greed comedy The Wolves at the Door, a new musical that gives a voice to Rabbie Burns' wife Armour, and Anna / Anastasia, a comedy about the greatest imposter of the 20th century.

 
Common Tongue play

Play

Common Tongue is ‘a play aboot imperfect Scots’, a fast-paced and quick-witted one-person show that sees Bonnie, a young woman from Paisley, navigate her relationship with the way she (and the audience) speaks, coming to grips with the implications of her language, dialect and accent.

 

Next:


What's On Glasgow Theatre October 2024 - coming soon


What's on Edinburgh Theatre September 2024 - coming soon


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