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“A little show with a very big future.”
Variety
New York, NY (May 13, 2025) – It was announced today at the entrance to the United Nations in New York City that the Olivier Award®-winning and Tony Award® nominated Best Musical, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical is launching a globe-spanning World Tour.
The world tour begins on February 16, 2026, at The Lowry in Manchester, UK—the venue that first encouraged the Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated writing team to create their debut musical, co-commissioned the production, and supported its early development, including hosting its first-ever scratch performance in 2017.
This announcement comes after the production’s third Broadway extension through February 15, 2026, and its fifteenth West End extension through February 28, 2026.
In Operation Mincemeat, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal parts farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an assist from Mr. Fleming himself), Operation Mincemeat tells the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII.
SpitLip, the musical’s writers and composers, commented:
“Broadway opened the literal world to us, and we couldn’t be more grateful for every unpredictable twist of this astonishing journey. Most of all, we wish to thank the audiences who continue to carry this show with love and enthusiasm. Operation Mincemeat reminds us that in uncertain times, the bonds between allies are more important than ever – and that message feels especially relevant as we consider all the great nations in which our show will now have the opportunity to play. This show continues to be the adventure of a lifetime, and we’re wildly excited about what’s to come.”
Tickets for the UK leg go on pre-sale June 5 at 10am BST, with general sale starting June 6 at 10am BST. For full details and tickets, visit operationmincemeat.com. The tour will travel across the U.K. for 40 weeks.
Tour dates for other territories and casting details will be announced. Fans can sign up to the mailing list to be the first to hear when the show lands in a city near them. Watch this space for news on new countries and continents.
Directed by Robert Hastie, Operation Mincemeat began performances on Broadway on February 15 and is now playing at the historic Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street).
Starring in Operation Mincemeat are David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Olivier Award-winner Jak Malone, and Zoë Roberts, who have reprised their original, acclaimed performances for the musical’s Broadway (American) premiere.
The decision to write the musical was the last roll of the dice from the quartet of young British creatives after years of performing sketch shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and echoes the journey of Beyond the Fringe from the world-famous quartet Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1960 before moving to the Fortune Theatre and later to the Golden in 1962.
Operation Mincemeat began as a tiny (and tiny-budgeted) production at London’s New Diorama Theatre. The show quickly gained a devoted following, spurring sold-out runs at venues including Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios. It finally premiered in the West End on May 9, 2023, at the Fortune Theatre, where it has since received 74 five-star reviews and counting, becoming ‘the Best Reviewed Show in West End History.’ Now in its third sold-out year, the show continues to play to standing-room-only crowds and has built one of London’s most passionate fanbases, affectionately known as the “Mincefluencers.”
Operation Mincemeat has been nominated for 64 awards since opening at the 77-seat New Diorama Theatre in 2019, winning 13, including Best Musical 3 times, from the Olivier Awards®, WhatsOnStage Awards, and Off-West End Awards. On Broadway, the show is nominated for 4 Tony Awards® in 2025, including Best Musical and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Malone, who previously won the Olivier Award® in the same category. The production has also received nominations for Outstanding Production of a Musical at the Drama League Awards, Outstanding New Broadway Musical at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, Best Musical at the BroadwayWorld Theater Fans’ Choice Awards, and Favourite New Musical at the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards.
SpitLip – Cumming, Felix Hagan, Hodgson, and Roberts –are nominated for Best Book and Best Score at the Tony Awards®, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and BroadwayWorld Theater Fans’ Choice Awards. They have also received Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Book of a Musical and Outstanding Lyrics. The Broadway cast has been nominated for Best Ensemble at the BroadwayWorld Theater Fans’ Choice Awards. Malone is additionally nominated for a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Drama League Award, and recently won a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut. Cumming, Hodgson, Roberts, and Hall have each received nominations at the BroadwayWorld Theater Fans’ Choice Awards, with Cumming also recognised with two Broadway.com Audience Choice Award nominations.
West End Extension tickets are available from OperationMincemeat.com and Broadway tickets OperationBroadway.com
Operation Mincemeat is produced on Broadway and in the West End by Avalon (in association with SpitLip). The show was commissioned by New Diorama Theatre, co-commissioned by The Lowry, and also supported by the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat.
UK
16th – 28th February 2026 – Lowry, Salford
2nd – 14th March 2026 – Theatre Royal Bath, Bath
17th – 21st March 2026 – Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
23rd – 28th March 2026 – Fareham Live, Fareham
31st March – 4th April 2026 – New Theatre, Oxford
6th – 11th April 2026 – Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
13th – 25th April 2026 – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
27th April – 2nd May 2026 – Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
4th – 9th May 2026 – Storyhouse, Chester
11th – 16th May 2026 – The Alexandra, Birmingham
19th – 23rd May 2026 – Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
25th – 30th May 2026 – Theatre Royal Brighton, Brighton
1st – 6th June 2026 – Grand Opera House, York
8th – 13th June 2026 – Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes
15th – 20th June 2026 – New Victoria Theatre, Woking
22nd – 27th June 2026 – Newcastle Theatre Royal, Newcastle
29th June – 4th July 2026 – Theatre Royal Plymouth, Plymouth
6th – 11th July 2026 – Hull New Theatre, Kingston upon Hull
13th – 18th July 2026 – Royal & Derngate, Northampton
20th July – 1st August 2026 – Theatre Royal Nottingham, Nottingham
3rd – 8th August 2026 – Congress Theatre, Eastbourne
11th – 15th August 2026 – His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen
31st August – 5th September 2026 – Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea
7th – 12th September 2026 – Grand Theatre, Leeds
15th – 19th September 2026 – New Theatre, Cardiff
21st – 26th September 2026 – Swansea Grand Theatre, Swansea
28th September – 3rd October 2026 – Wycombe Swan Theatre, High Wycombe
5th – 10th October 2026 – Norwich Theatre Royal, Norwich
12th – 17th October 2026 – Orchard Theatre, Dartford
26th – 31st October 2026 – Victoria Theatre, Halifax
2nd – 7th November 2026 – Capital Theatres, Edinburgh
10th – 14th November 2026 – Theatre Royal Glasgow, Glasgow
17th – 21st November 2026 – Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
23rd – 28th November 2026 – The Hawth, Crawley
INTERNATIONAL
2026 – US, Canada and Mexico – announcement soon
2027 – China – announcement soon
2027 – Australia and New Zealand – announcement soon