Below are a selection of updates, news and features from 2011 and 2012.
Our new production of The Winter’s Tale has started rehearsing.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and artist Stephen Raw unveil a new work on Shakespeare.
Tara Fitzgerald makes her RSC debut as Hermione in our new production of The Winter's Tale.
Jon Boden, lead singer from the band Bellowhead, will compose the music for our touring production of The Winter’s Tale.
Ian McDiarmid will play Galileo in Mark Ravenhill’s new translation of Brecht’s A Life of Galileo.
Our Artistic Director Michael Boyd and Executive Director Vikki Heywood hand over to the new team today.
Pupils in classrooms all over the country take part in an interactive stream of I, Cinna (the Poet)
Actors and athletes come together to celebrate the opening of the World Shakespeare Festival.
Mark Ravenhill recites his new sonnet for the launch of the World Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare's birthday.
Interview with incoming Artistic Director Gregory Doran.
A round-up of the RSC's 50th birthday celebration events that have taken place throughout the year, in pictures
A newly crafted 70-minute King Lear is to be brought to more than one million New York schoolchildren next October.
Photos from press night for Matilda The Musical at the Cambridge Theatre in London
Neil Hannon marks Halloween by performing in costume at the RSC.
The World Shakespeare Festival celebrates Shakespeare as the world’s playwright, studied by half the world’s children.
Royal Mail is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company with a new set of ten stamps.
Royal Mail is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company with a new set of ten stamps.