In recent years the RSC has collaborated with organisations at home and abroad, both on co-productions and in strategic partnerships. Such initiatives generate creative cross-fertilisation, use subsidy most effectively and promote the sharing of financial risk.

The RSC has developed a number of new and pioneering partnerships in the United States. The RSC realises that much of the renewed artistic vision cannot be achieved alone and that there are a wide range of benefits from working in partnership with others.

The Company has always depended on working with others to create its work on stage. Joint productions and partnerships with theatres, producers and artists from around the world have been a hallmark of the RSC's way of working for many years. However, recently the Company has been exploring the potential of new partnerships which demonstrated the synergy between the RSC and business, learning and media organisations.

Case study: The University of Michigan
The RSC's groundbreaking partnership with the University of Michigan and University Musical Society in Ann Arbor is a good example of how the RSC is extending the value and the benefit of partnership working.

A unique and entrepreneurial five year relationship between the RSC, the University Musical Society and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has added an important extra element to the RSC's presence in the United States. This new model of working highlighted how a partnership between an arts organisation and a leading university creates a range of benefits neither could achieve alone.