Giles Terera’s boldly inventive debut play The Meaning of Zong will make its London premiere at Barbican Theatre in April 2023, following its world premiere at Bristol Old Vic and visits to Liverpool and Edinburgh last year.
Mark Rylance returns to the West End this summer in Dr Semmelweis opening at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 11 July, with previews from 29 June, and running until Saturday 7 October. The critically acclaimed Bristol Old Vic production, directed by Tom Morris, opened in 2022, and sees Rylance reprise the title role.
On Sunday, March 12 at 2:00 p.m., Harry Bicket conducts Handel's Solomon at Carnegie Hall with acclaimed baroque orchestra The English Concert.
Bristol Old Vic's record-breaking A Christmas Carol is being made available for free to audiences around the world from 16 Dec, in partnership with the world's largest digital platform, YouTube.
The Genesis Foundation today announced the full list of panellists taking part in the second of their Genesis Conversations, in partnership with Bristol Old Vic at the theatre's historic venue on 15 November.
From award-winning producer and director Conrad Weaver comes the film PTSD911. The upcoming feature-length documentary will make its premiere at Irving Arts Center, benefiting nonprofits NAMI North Texas and C.O.P.S. PTSD911 is a relevant and timely documentary exploring the post-traumatic stress in first responders and the importance of ending the stigma to ask for help.
The Meaning of Zong is the boldly inventive debut play by Giles Terera whose performance in the original run at Bristol Old Vic won him the 2022 UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Play. The Meaning of Zong celebrates the power of the human spirit against adversity, and the journey to understand our place in the world.
Shoreditch Town Hall has announced three new Trustees joining the company’s exceptional Board. The appointments include YOGEETA MANGLANI, FERN STONER, and EMMA STENNING, the new Chair of the Board
The Genesis Foundation has announced the second of their Genesis Conversations will take place in partnership with Bristol Old Vic at the theatre's historic venue this November.
Bristol Old Vic's 2022 Programme was announced in January as Tom Morris' Farewell Season under the title; “Building a platform for the future.”
As we all feel our way towards post-pandemic recovery, Bristol Old Vic continues to build the foundations for a strong future with the completion of a dazzling year of high-quality drama.
Bristol School of Acting, in partnership with The Wardrobe Ensemble, announced a new two year accelerated degree course in Theatre Making.
CHELSEA TABLE + STAGE will present “Simply Barbra” written and performed by Steven Brinberg, to celebrate Barbra Streisand’s landmark 80th Birthday on Monday, July 18 at 7:00 PM.
CHELSEA TABLE + STAGE has announced a special Pride Edition of The Boy Band Project’s “Boy Band Brunch” on Sunday, June 26 at 2:00 PM. A portion of ticket sales will benefit The LGBT Network, a non-profit organization that is a home and a voice for LGBT people, their families, and support systems in Long Island and Queens.
COMPANY director, Marianne Elliott, has made history as the first female to win three Tony Awards for directing!
What makes Claudio Monteverdi’s Favola d’Orfeo (Legend of Orpheus), premiered at the northern Italian court in Mantua in 1607, the very first opera? Naturally there were a few forerunners. However, for the first time the music in this work itself not only symbolically takes up the words as an allegory in the prologue but the entire scenic events are musically interwoven congenially.
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School - one of the UK's leading drama conservatoires - is preparing to go back to its roots this summer and take over Bristol Old Vic's Theatre and Weston Studio with a powerful season of work, 75 years after the School's first graduating cohort took to the stage.
Bristol Old Vic has announced that Nancy Medina has been appointed as the company’s new Artistic Director. Medina takes up the role full-time in spring 2023 and follows Tom Morris who is stepping down after 12 years in the role.
In 2021, Little Amal, the giant puppet of a young Syrian refugee child, captured the world's imagination by walking 8,000 km across Europe to focus our attention on the urgent needs of young refugees.
Choreographer Dam Van Huynh is presenting a new solo work, In Realness, an unflinching take on personal and global political issues that combines movement and vocal expressionist sound in response to social inequalities.
