Operation Mincemeat has stretched its 2027 UK and Ireland tour again, adding a third week at the Lowry in Salford, a second at The Alexandra in Birmingham and, according to WhatsOnStage, a return to Theatre Royal Plymouth.
The touring company of Operation Mincemeat has more weeks on the road in 2027. The show's own tour page now flags a third week at the Lowry, Salford, and a second week at The Alexandra, Birmingham. Both extra weeks go to a ballot first.
WhatsOnStage reports that the extension puts a further 34,000 tickets on sale after weeks of sold-out houses, and that the second leg, which opens in Dartford on 23 February, now runs for 39 weeks. It also lists a new stop at Theatre Royal Plymouth from 4-8 May, which is not yet shown on the production's website.
Going by the WhatsOnStage listing, Salford now runs from 11-29 May and Birmingham from 24 August - 4 September. The official tour page still shows the shorter runs for both.
Ballots and pre-sales
Ballots are open now for the added Salford and Birmingham weeks. Winners get first go at the best seats for those performances, 24 hours before general sale, and will be told by email on Wednesday 18 November. Dublin, booked for 17-21 August with its venue still to be named, has a pre-sale on 11 November.
The current leg has three stops left: Theatre Royal Glasgow (10-14 November), Mayflower Theatre Southampton (17-21 November) and The Hawth, Crawley (23-28 November), where it breaks until February. The tour first moved into 2027 with the 36-week extension announced in September.
Where the tour goes in 2027
- 23-27 February: Orchard Theatre, Dartford
- 2-6 March: Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes
- 9-20 March: Theatre Royal, Bath
- 23 March - 3 April: Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
- 6-10 April: Empire Theatre, Sunderland
- 20-24 April: Hippodrome, Darlington
- 27 April - 1 May: Theatre Royal, Brighton
- 4-8 May: Theatre Royal, Plymouth (new)
- 11-29 May: Lowry, Salford (third week added)
- 1-5 June: Hall for Cornwall, Truro
- 8-12 June: Kings Theatre, Portsmouth
- 15-19 June: Grand Theatre, Blackpool
- 22-26 June: Eden Court, Inverness
- 29 June - 3 July: King's Theatre, Edinburgh
- 6-10 July: Theatre Royal, Glasgow
- 13-17 July: New Theatre, Oxford
- 20-24 July: Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury
- 27-31 July: Theatre Royal, Nottingham
- 3-7 August: Grand Theatre, Leeds
- 10-14 August: Grand Opera House, Belfast
- 17-21 August: Dublin, venue to be announced
- 24 August - 4 September: The Alexandra, Birmingham (second week added)
- 14-18 September: New Theatre, Cardiff
- 21-25 September: Woking Theatre, Woking
- 28 September - 2 October: Grand Opera House, York
- 5-9 October: Empire Theatre, Liverpool
- 12-16 October: Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
- 19-23 October: Curve, Leicester
- 26-30 October: Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
- 2-6 November: Arts Theatre, Cambridge
- 9-13 November: Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
- 16-20 November: Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The touring cast is Christian Andrews and Jordan Pearson (Hester Leggatt and others), Seán Carey and Morgan Phillips (Charles Cholmondeley and others), Katy Ellis (Ewen Montagu, Jean Leslie and others), Georgina Hagen and Jamie-Rose Monk (Johnny Bevan and others), Charlotte Hanna-Williams (Jean Leslie and others) and Holly Sumpton (Ewen Montagu and others).
Avalon presents the tour in association with SpitLip, the company of David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts, who wrote the book, music and lyrics. Robert Hastie directs the musical, which retells the true wartime ruse of 1943: a dead man, a briefcase of fake invasion plans and a handful of British intelligence officers betting that Germany would believe them.
In London, the original production plays on at the Fortune Theatre, where Operation Mincemeat is booking now.
