Tom Morris News

Bristol Old Vic has announced that its interim Executive Director will be Sally Cordwell, former Deputy CEO and Director of Marketing and Visitor Experience at the SS Great Britain Trust.

John Haidar directs Tom Mothersdale as Shakespeare's most notorious and complex villain, Richard III. This inventive new staging is a co-production between Headlong, Alexandra Palace and Bristol Old Vic, with Royal & Derngate Northampton and Oxford Playhouse.

Hamilton's Olivier Award-winning actor Giles Terera will present his new play The Meaning of Zong on Bristol Old Vic's stage this Thursday (11 Oct) for a one-night-only workshop performance. The piece examines the massacre aboard the slave ship Zong in 1781 and the repercussions of these events, which influenced the growing abolition movement in the UK. This rehearsed reading will be followed by a free post-show talk with Giles Terera, Tom Morris and the cast.

Bristol Old Vic today announced the full cast for its Christmas programme - a kaleidoscope of choice for whatever Christmas means to you!

The National Theatre has today announced its new season

Bristol Old Vic welcome to the whole community grows with 'Seeds of Change' week celebrating black voices and empowerment. 

A&E Network has ordered 150 more episodes of the hit original series, 'Live PD,' which documents policing in America in real time, from Big Fish Entertainment, an MGM Company. Totaling 450 hours, the deal extends the series' run into 2019, with the new order bringing the number of commissioned episodes to 293 to date. 'Live PD' returns for a third season tonight at 9pm ET/PT. The announcement was made today by Elaine Frontain Bryant, Executive Vice President and Head of Programming for A&E. 'Live PD' airs Friday and Saturday nights at 9pm ET/PT.

Continuing their thrilling Year Of Change, Bristol Old Vic brings an epic tale of survival to the stage for the first time as Tom Morris directs a breathtakingly inventive adaptation of Touching the Void.

Producers today announced that following the previously advertised dates, Tom Morris' production of Touching The Void will tour to Perth and Inverness in Scotland, followed by an international engagement in Hong Kong

The National Theatre announces today that The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted by Simon Stephens from the novel by Mark Haddon, and directed by Marianne Elliott (War Horse, Angels in America, Company) will return to the West End in November 2018 for a limited season. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time begins previews at the Piccadilly Theatre on 29 November, with an opening night on 11 December.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) today announces the appointment of Simon Godwin as its next Artistic Director. Godwin, currently the Associate Director at the National Theatre of Great Britain (NT), previously served as Associate Director of London's Royal Court Theatre and Associate Director at the Bristol Old Vic in the United Kingdom. He will succeed Michael Kahn, who has been at the helm of STC since 1986.

In the wake of its 250th anniversary celebrations and on the eve of the completion of its refurbishment, Bristol Old Vic's Chief Executive Emma Stenning will move to Canada to take up the post of Executive Director at Soulpepper Theatre Company in Toronto, after their international search for new leadership.

Royal & Derngate Northampton today announced that it will be staging the UK premiere of Katori Hall's Our Lady of Kibeho, in January 2019, directed by Artistic Director James Dacre.

Casting for both Touching the Void and Twelfth Night was announced today, heralding the first two-production partnership between leading regional theatrical powerhouses, Bristol Old Vic and The Lyceum, Edinburgh.

Something is lurking in the dark. It's waiting under the stairs, hidden beneath the bed, and it's staring right back at you in the mirror. Nobody else knows it's there. Or maybe they're just pretending they don't. As shadows appear in the night and it feels like the weight of the world has come crashing down, what chance is there to break free when fear itself takes hold? And, even in the harsh light of day, are those fears any less unsettling?

Fuel Director, Kate McGrath confirmed more projects to take place in 2018 in the UK and beyond.

The National Theatre announces new information, and recaps its upcoming season.

Further details of the Bristol Old Vic's productions taking the theatre up to Jan 2019 were revealed today.

It was announced yesterday in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours list that Marianne Elliott, artistic director of Elliott & Harper Productions, is to be recognised for her services to theatre with an OBE. 

Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Long Day's Journey Into Night  comes to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for a limited three-week engagement from Friday, June 8 through Sunday, July 1. Richard Eyre's acclaimed Bristol Old Vic production stars Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons(Brideshead Revisited, Reversal of Fortune,  'The Borgias') and Olivier Award winner and Oscar nominee Lesley Manville(Another Year,  'Harlots,' Phantom Thread). Matthew Beard (The Imitation Game, The Riot Club), Rory Keenan (BBC's 'War & Peace,' 'Peaky Blinders') and Jessica Regan (reprising the role as Cathleen from the 2016 Bristol Old Vic production) round out the ensemble cast.