- - Alan Cumming Sets 2026 Pitlochry Festival Theatre Lineup: ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘King Lear’ and More

Leia MendozaNovember 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM

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Alan Cumming has unveiled Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s programming for 2026. This will mark Cumming’s inaugural year as the theater’s artistic Ddirector for the theater and coincide with the 75th anniversary of of the Scottish Highland Theatre.

“My first season of programmed work as artistic director in 2026 also happens to be the 75th anniversary of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s founding by a man named John Stewart, who came here during the Second World War and made a promise to himself that he would return and build a theater,” Cummings said in a statement Thursday. “I have found I have a great affinity with John: we both came to Pitlochry and were mesmerized, we both share a belief in dreaming big and the power of positivity and manifestation. And for my first season, just as he did in 1951, I have invited people here who I admire and love, and who have been part of the theatrical journey that led me to becoming this theater’s artistic director.”

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This year’s productions will include “Once” directed by John Tiffany and choreographed by Steven Hoggett, Lerner Loewe’s “My Fair Lady” directed by Maria Friedman, which will feature Cummings as Henry Higgins. New plays include “I’ll Be Seeing You” by Martin Sherman, directed by Cumming and featuring Simon Russell Beale and Fra Fee, “I Can Die Too” by Frances Ruffelle, Sally George and Cumming, “Inexperience” by Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell featuring Adura Onashile and Sandy Grierson, alongside the UK premiere of “Ceilidh” directed by “Oh, Mary!” helmer Sam Pinkleton and written by Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie.

Additional new productions will feature Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams’ “A History of Paper,” William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” directed and adapted by Finn Den Hertog featuring Maureen Beattie and Forbes Masson, Iain Heggie’s play “Wiping My Mother’s Arse” and the National Theatre of Scotland production of David Harrower’s stage adaptation of Muriel Spark’s’ novel “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” featuring Gayle Rankin and directed by Vicky Featherstone.

Priority booking for members and patrons starts Nov. 13 with public booking opening on Nov. 27.

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