3 To See: In Dundee
A musical revival, a stand-up comedy show and a tech-infused dance spectacle headline a month of big-hitting shows across Dundee
Not just a heavily anticipated slab of musical theatre but an undeniable highlight of Scotland’s cultural calendar for 2026, The High Life: The Musical (Dundee Rep, until Saturday 4 April; Wednesday 6–Saturday 9 May) will deliver a nostalgic tingle for many and a sense of intrigue for those not around in the mid-90s when the TV comedy burned brightly for a short while. A dream team of Johnny McKnight, Forbes Masson and Alan Cumming have updated the capers of the Air Scotia cabin crew (also featuring original members Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart) to see how they’d get on in the modern world.
German stand-up Henning Wehn (Whitehall Theatre, Saturday 18 April) does a pretty good job of acting as though he’s also from a different era (his new show is titled Acid Wehn for one thing) but his comedy is sharp as tacks and more transgressive than it might first appear. One of the UK’s most popular dance groups, Diversity (Caird Hall, Tuesday 28 April) are bringing us some Soul on their current tour as they examine AI and what it means to be human in this digital wild west.
Picture: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.