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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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Music / Tribute
The Bowie Experience brings the golden years of David Bowie to the Glasgow King's Theatre stage on Thursday 19 September.
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.
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.
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
More:
What's on Glasgow Theatre September 2024. A round-up of plays, musicals and more playing in and around Glasgow.
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