Next up at the Old Vic is a return for his hit Dylan’s musical Girl from the North Country; later this autumn he’s the adapting playwright for the stage version of The Hunger Games.

Rae Smith's down at heel farmhouse set captures the musty, decades-old decor while the fluttering of silk and Japanese screens suggest a life beyond. McPherson also directs, and while the first ...

The Bristol Old Vic said it wanted to ‘reassure our trans and non-binary visitors, staff and artists that you are welcome here’. The Old Vic issued a statement on its website and on social ...

The Old Vic‘s Oedipus will inevitably draw comparisons with Robert Icke’s version at Wyndham’s Theatre starring Mark Strong ...

The latest reworking by Laura Lomas of August Strindberg's 1888 naturalistic play Miss Juile ideally captures the relationship between Mis Julie, a rich spoilt eighteen-year-old, Christine the close ...

The latest reworking by Laura Lomas of August Strindberg's 1888 naturalistic play Miss Juile ideally captures the relationship between Mis Julie, a rich spoilt eighteen-year-old, Christine the ...

The 82-year-old turkey hunter had an hour to spare and figured he’d pass it by working a few calls from his Wilcox County property. What he got instead was the wildest hunt of his life, when a bobcat ...

Pierre has his long-suffering help, Elizabeth (Derbhle Crotty), in tow, while Desmond has unwisely come with both his wife, Lydia (Hannah Morrish), and Freya (Aisling Kearns), his 19-year-old ...

His previous show at the Old Vic was the sprawling, Bob Dylan-song-filled Girl From the North Country. Here, he’s pared things back to focus on a family wrestling with life, faith, and fate in a ...

Last Updated on April 25, 2025 Where myth and memory meet, Conor McPherson’s haunting Irish tale 3.5 out of 5.0 stars There’s a moment, nestled deep within The Brightening Air, where the ...

Audacious. That’s the word for Conor McPherson’s new play, a hilarious and achingly moving slice of dysfunctional rural Irish family life in the 1980s with broad seams of mysticism and ...