Musical Today Every stop on the tour, and who sells it
Cats
The pitch was unfundable. A sung-through musical with no plot, based on a book of light verse a poet wrote for his godchildren in 1939, in which the performers are cats. Andrew Lloyd Webber mortgaged his house to help pay for it.
- Cities
- 23
- On sale
- 21 of 23 runs
- Last checked
- 22 September 2026
It opened at the New London Theatre on 11 May 1981 and closed twenty-one years later to the day, after 8,949 performances. Broadway ran it for 7,485. For seventeen years it was the longest-running musical London had ever had, and for a stretch it was the longest-running show on Broadway too.
Below is every stop on the 2026–27 tour of Britain and Ireland — the theatre, the dates and who is actually selling the tickets.
Where it plays
Soonest first. Every city has its own page, with the theatre, the dates and the seller.
Birmingham
Twelve nights at the Hippodrome, more than double what most stops on this tour are given.
27 October – 7 November 2026 · Birmingham Hippodrome
Manchester
Manchester is one of three cities where the two shows do not share a stage: Cats is at the Palace, Chicago at the Opera House up the road.
10 – 21 November 2026 · Palace Theatre
Bristol
Five nights at the Hippodrome, a 1912 house that seats 1,951 — near the top end of what this tour plays.
24 – 28 November 2026 · Bristol Hippodrome
Llandudno
Five nights at Venue Cymru, the tour's only Welsh coastal stop, and the last dates before Cats settles into Glasgow for the whole of December.
1 – 5 December 2026 · Venue Cymru
Glasgow
Twenty nights, from 8 to 27 December — the longest single stay of any run listed on this site, and the only one that plays through Christmas.
8 – 27 December 2026 · Theatre Royal
Nottingham
Eleven nights in a 2,499-seat concert hall rather than a theatre: after Edinburgh, the largest room Cats plays on this tour.
6 – 16 January 2027 · Royal Concert Hall
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Where is Cats playing next?
Birmingham, at the Birmingham Hippodrome: 27 October – 7 November 2026. It is the first of 21 dated runs still to come.