Two major musicals have announced additional dates for their UK and Ireland tours.
Current West End show Back to the Future, and long-running touring musical Blood Brothers, have both announced additional touring venues this week.
The news comes as Operation Mincemeat has started its major new 40-date UK and Ireland tour this week, kicking off at The Lowry Theatre in Salford.
Blood Brothers adds 2027 dates
Much-loved musical Blood Brothers by Willy Russell has added a number of new tour dates.
The show is booking by seasons, with the spring 2026 tour now playing, and autumn 2026 coming up. A big announcement was made in December about the Blood Brothers spring 2026 dates and cast.
New dates have now been confirmed for spring 2027, which starts in Southampton on 19 January 2027, and then plays Brighton and Cardiff. Further dates are to be announced.
Coming to Crewe on 20 February, the cast of Blood Brothers currently stars Vivienne Carlyle as Mrs Johnstone, Sean Jones and Joe Sleight as twin brothers Mickey and Eddie, Gemma Brodrick as Linda, and Laura Harrison as Mrs Lyons. Richard Munday and Kristofer Harding will share the role of the Narrator.
Blood Brothers is written by award-winning playwright Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine), and tells the moving tale of twins separated at birth, who grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with tragic consequences.
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Back to the Future adds Manchester & Plymouth
West End musical Back to the Future announced in November that it is leaving London this April after over four years at the Adelphi Theatre.
The UK and Ireland tour was revealed back in September, starting at the Bristol Hippodrome in October 2026, and then touring to Edinburgh, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Sunderland, and Southampton.
Further dates have been announced this week, with a Manchester run from 13 July to 21 August 2026; and a Plymouth run from 24 August to 11 September 2026.
The West End show currently stars Caden Brauch as Marty McFly, with Cory English as Doctor Emmett Brown, Maddie Grace Jepson as Lorraine Baines, Orlando Gibbs as George McFly, C.J. Borger as Goldie Wilson and Marvin Berry, Alex Runicles as Biff Tannen, Talia Palamathanan as Jennifer Parker, Lee Ormsby as Alternate Doctor Emmett Brown and Strickland, Gracie Caine as Linda McFly, and Liam McHugh as Dave McFly. At select performances Oliver Halford plays the role of Marty McFly.
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