World leaders, cultural icons & stars gathered to celebrate the US premiere of Kyoto, pur co-production with Good Chance, written by Joe Murphy & Joe Robertson, which opened this week at Lincoln Center Theater 🌏 📸 Photos © Rebecca J. Michelson and Michaelah Reynolds

Jerwood Foundation has awarded @the-rsc.bsky.social a grant of £25,000 to support their launch of a new actor training programme, created in collaboration with leading voice practitioner Professor Patsy Rodenburg. Learn more 👇 jerwood.org/news/147-25-...

The Curriculum and Assessment Review has been published today. It is clear that the government recognises the important role that creative arts subjects play in a balanced curriculum and we can see progress towards ensuring that arts subjects are an entitlement for every child.

Kyoto, our co-production with Good Chance, has had its US premiere at the Lincoln Center Theater 🌍 Kyoto is a political thriller that dramatizes the moment all nations tried to set aside their differences for the sake of the earth, which played in Stratford before transferring to London this year.

Apprentices and our Early Careers Manager will be at Theatre Craft to share information on careers in the creative industries, as part of our aim to work with the next generation of talent, head along to stand 13 today! Get your free ticket here www.theatrecraft.org/theatrecraft... 📸: Sara Beaumont©

Congratulations to the winners of the Black British Theatre Awards who are working with us on our upcoming production The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind! Chuchu Nwagu - Best Producer Lynette Linton - Best Director Liam Goodwin - Lord Michael Hastings Award Heather Basten - Best Casting Director

The Time 100 Climate List 2025 features Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, playwrights of Kyoto, our co-production with @Good Chance 🌏 time.com/collections/... 📸 : © Manuel Harlan, Kyoto at @sohoplace, Jan 2025

We are so sad to hear of the death of Prunella Scales. Prunella appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre near the beginning of her career in the mid 1950s, with roles including Juliet in Measure for Measure, and Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice.

Together with Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi, in collaboration with Nippon TV and @improbable1.bsky.social, the multi-award winning stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro will extend its run in the West End until 30 August 2026 💚

We welcomed representatives from the Department for Education to Bluecoat Beechdale School in Nottingham to join a drama lesson using RSC teaching methods & watch First Encounters: King Lear our 90-min version made relevant to a new generation. www.rsc.org.uk/first-encoun...

We’re delighted to be joining @10dowingstreet.bsky.social and 125 UK businesses, CEOs and cultural institutions in India to explore new opportunities to share our artistic programme and promote the benefits of our pioneering learning work which is revolutionizing teaching of Shakespeare in the UK.

We were very sorry to hear of the recent death of the celebrated director Ian Judge, who directed many shows at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, at the Barbican and on tour. He will be sadly missed. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of actor John Woodvine. John was one of our Honorary Associate Artists and performed in over 40 RSC productions between 1976 and 2008. He performed with us in 1976, playing Banquo in Trevor Nunn’s acclaimed Macbeth alongside Ian McKellen and Judi Dench.

We are deeply saddened to hear of Patricia Routledge’s death. She performed in several RSC productions in the 1980s, including Henry V with Kenneth Branagh and Richard III. Our thoughts are with her family.

Our new Spring 2026 season has arrived — epic stories, big names, unforgettable theatre 💫 Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey bring together a season where the familiar is reimagined, and the new is discovered.

Farewell to The Constant Wife team 🎭✨ Sending lots of love to everyone for their final performances today ❤️

Summer at the RSC ☀️👇

'The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails...' 🌨️ Sending love to The Winter's Tale team for Press Night ❤️

The Winter's Tale has arrived in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ❄️🔥

Today is the first day of our Festival of Ideas ✨ Over the next three days, our Interdisciplinary Fellows will share their research with interactive displays & presentations related to the creative & cultural sector 🎭 Find out more about the festival & our fellows www.rsc.org.uk/news/festiva...

Wishing all the best to The Winter's Tale company for their first preview tonight ❄️

Welcoming the 4.48 Psychosis team to Stratford-upon-Avon 👋 Sending love for their first performance this evening ❤️

We were very sad to hear of the passing of actor David Killick last week after a short illness. As a long-time and much-loved company member of the RSC, David appeared in over 35 RSC productions between 1985 and 2003. Our thoughts go out to his friends and family.

We’re excited to announce that Twelfth Night and Wendy & Peter Pan are coming to London’s Barbican this winter 💫

Sending much love to The Constant Wife team for their Press Night ✨

Sending love to the Hamlet Hail to the Thief team for their final performances in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ❤   @radiohead.wastehq.social | Factory International | @the-rsc.bsky.social

Hi from the Stratford-upon-Avon Playmaking Festival 👋 Over 4,600 young people have performed in Playmaking Festivals around the country this year 🎭 Today the festival comes to Stratford as 90 students perform King Lear in The Other Place - well done everyone

Introducing The Two Gentlemen of Verona company 🌳

Some midsummer magic for you on the Summer Solstice 🧚✨🫏

Happy first preview to The Constant Wife team ✨❤️

Join our Fat Ham company for the cookout this summer 🍖💀

Sending love to the 4.48 Psychosis company ahead of Press Night at the Royal Court tonight ❤

Behind the scenes: The Winter's Tale in rehearsals 👀❄️

Less than a week until The Constant Wife opens in the Swan Theatre 🦢✨

Break a leg for Press Night, Hamlet Hail to the Thief team ❤💀

Inside the rehearsal room with The Constant Wife company ✨

Say hello to The Winter's Tale company 👋❄️

Wishing the Titus Andronicus team farewell as they play their final performances in the Swan Theatre today ⚔️❤️

‘How goes the world? It wears, sir, as it grows.’ This collaborative new version of Shakespeare and Middleton’s morality fable is by our Next Generation Act Young Company, made up of young people from across England.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a bold and uplifting new musical telling the true story of a boy who hopes to defy expectations to produce the gift of power and give hope for tomorrow

Award-winning artist Whitney White explodes into The Other Place next year with a groundbreaking theatrical event, featuring four of Shakespeare’s most famous characters – Lady Macbeth, Juliet, Emilia and Richard III.

Hamlet Hail to the Thief plays its first preview in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre tonight 🎉

John Galsworthy’s Nobel-winning saga about love, ownership and the end of Empire is retold by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan across two plays, spanning over 40 years from 1886 to 1927.

'No master to serve, no leash to bear. I walk as I please, and I speak as I dare.' Olivier Award-winner Adrian Lester makes his RSC debut, directed by Simon Evans in Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, in a new version by Simon Evans and Debris Stevenson.

'What's done cannot be undone.' 🗡 The Scottish Play comes to The Other Place with Sam Heughan as Macbeth and Lia Williams as Lady Macbeth.

‘This story shall the good man teach his son…’ 👑 Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey and Alfred Enoch reunite for Henry V, after last year’s acclaimed production of Pericles.

Adrian Lester and Alfred Enoch lead Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘global’ new season

Our latest season is here – globally inspired stories, thrillingly told 💫   Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey share what’s coming up on our stages later this year and next – stories from across the centuries and around the globe.

🎤 Listen up — here's what's coming up in June 👇