News, Features and Updates

Keep up to date with our latest news, blogs, features and play updates.

From the latest blogs straight from the rehearsal room to our newest casting updates, featured content and other news - check back here to see what's happening.

The Red Shoes Trailer

19 November 2024

Step into the dark fairy tale world of Hans Christian Andersen’s with the trailer for The Red Shoes, playing in the Swan Theatre this winter.

The Red Shoes Production Pictures

12 November 2024

See production images for The Red Shoes in the Swan Theatre.

11 Questions with... Sebastien Torkia

18 November 2024

We meet the West End and Matilda the Musical star Sebastien Torkia who plays Sylvestor the Shoemaker in The Red Shoes.

Cocktail Masterclasses

10 November 2024

Join us every Friday in the RSC's Rooftop Restaurant from 8pm and learn the secrets of making great cocktails.

A Midsummer Night's Dream Cast & Creatives

5 November 2024

The full cast joining Mathew Baynton at the Barbican for A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Twelfth Night trailer

6 November 2024

Watch Samuel West as Malvolio, Gwyneth Keyworth as Viola, Freema Agyeman as Olivia, and Bally Gill as Orsino in the trailer for Shakespeare's bittersweet winter masterpiece.

Hamlet Cast and Creatives

31 October 2024

Meet the principal cast for our 2025 production of Hamlet, starring Luke Thallon, Jared Harris and Nancy Carroll, directed by Rupert Goold

Robin Goodfellow or Puck

25 October 2024

A mischievous fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but he would have been a familiar name to Shakespeare’s audiences, whose folklore origins go much further back.

Twelfth Night Cast & Creatives

24 October 2024

Meet the full cast of Twelfth Night, including Samuel West as Malvolio and Freema Agyeman as Olivia.

Othello Production Pictures

20 October 2024

See pictures of Othello on stage in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Meet Our Two New Writers-in-Residence

10 October 2024

Zoe Cooper and Stewart Pringle have been appointed as the new Writers-in-Residence for the RSC.

The Red Shoes Cast & Creatives

2 October 2024

Meet the full cast and creative team for The Red Shoes, a retelling of this dark Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, by playwright Nancy Harris and directed by Kimberley Rampersad.

David Edgar and the RSC

23 September 2024

The New Real opens at The Other Place in October and will be the tenth play by playwright David Edgar to premiere at the RSC.

The Buddha of Suburbia Cast & Creatives

4 September 2024

Meet the full cast for The Buddha of Suburbia at the Barbican, London.

Pericles Production Photos

31 July 2024

Take a first look at Pericles on stage at the Swan Theatre with these production photos.

The Playwright and the pimp - who wrote Pericles?

15 July 2024

Discover who wrote Pericles, and what we know about Shakespeare's co-author, George Wilkins.

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