Bristol Old Vic announces 2022 season
Bristol Old Vic has announced its 2022 Season today providing what it is hoped as a roadmap for the theatre post-pandemic.
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FIRST LOOK: Rehearsals for Dr Semmelweis starring Mark Rylance at Bristol Old Vic
We are pleased to bring you these rehearsal images of Mark Rylance in Dr Semmelweis at Bristol Old Vic. Book tickets now!
Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful to play limited run at the Garrick Theatre
A new adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful it to play a limited two week season at the Garrick Theatre London this November.
Wise Children to stream Romantics Anonymous live from Bristol Old Vic
Wise Children announce that the critically acclaimed Romantics Anonymous will be performed and broadcast live from Bristol Old Vic.
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) UK Tour 2020
Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) UK Tour have announced cast for their upcoming all-female, rip-roaring and irreverent adaptation of the Jane Austen classic.
Faustus That Damned Woman Tour 2020
Faustus: That Damned Woman Tour – Chris Bush’s new play will be presented by Headlong and the Lyric Hammersmith in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2020.
Regional UK Theatre looking forward 2018
Mark Ludmon examines the year ahead for regional theatre in 2018. Bolton girl Maxine Peake has made her mark on TV and the London stage but she returns to her roots with her second play, Queens of the Coal Age. Based on the true story of four women in Lancashire during the miners’ strike in the 1980s, it will be at the Royal Exchange in Manchester from 28 June to 21 July. Also at the Royal Exchange, Maxine Peake will star in Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Beckett’s Happy Days from 25 May to 23 June. Other highlights coming up at the Royal Exchange include Julie Hesmondhalgh in Kendall Feaver’s new play The Almighty Sometimes and April De Angelis’s new adaptation of Frankenstein. A new production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard directed by Michael Boyd, the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will come to the Royal Exchange … Read more
REVIEW: The Grinning Man, Trafalgar Studios 1 ✭✭✭✭✭
Bristol Old Vic’s production will probably always stand in the shadow of the world conquering, barricade storming Les Misrables, but The Grinning Man is a macabre, melodramatic, Gothic masterpiece in its own right.
