Mark Addy will play Sir John Hotham in Richard Bean's new comedy, The Hypocrite

We want the welcome and service we give to all our visitors to be as world-class as the theatre they come to see

Join us next summer for our 'Rome' season, as we stage four of Shakespeare’s most political and bloody thrillers as part of a programme inspired by Ancient Rome

Celebrating Roald Dahl's centenary - catch more about him and Matilda The Musical

Visitors to Selfridges in the Birmingham Bullring will come face to face with a giant moving face of Prospero

Twenty-four ‘extras’ from across the Midlands will appear on stage as Lear’s knights, soldiers and vagrants

We are giving away 30 prizes - find out the rules and prizes here

We will tour an edited version of The Tempest for younger audiences from January to March 2017

South African actors Buhle Ngaba and David Viviers are spending a month in Stratford-upon-Avon with as the recipients of the final Brett Goldin Bursary awards

Matilda The Musical, Australia wins a record-breaking 13 Helpmann Awards, including the 2016 award for Best Musical

Explore the imaginative ways that Shakespeare’s stories, settings and characters have been brought to life on stage

A great day visiting Number 10 Downing Street with some of the young people from around the country involved in our education work

Whose Culture?, a symposium celebrating 10 years of our Learning and Performance Network and examining the future of the arts and culture in education

Mark Quartley will play Ariel opposite Simon Russell Beale's Prospero in Gregory Doran’s The Tempest, as we confirm the show's live screening

More than 1,500 young people come to Stratford-upon-Avon to perform their versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, inspired by steampunk, the refugee crisis and other themes

Why 2016 is a landmark year for Matilda The Musical

Open House event with free activities and theatre tickets on sale at 1974 prices for one day only

Alice Birch’s award winning play will make its Scottish premiere at the Traverse Theatre as part of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Our Artistic Director is awarded the Hay Festival Medal for Drama, for dedicating his life's work to Shakespeare

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Documentary for A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Play for the Nation airs on 20 May

Summer festival of new plays at The Other Place with work from some of today’s most exciting playwrights who are challenging and questioning our society

30 years after the Swan theatre first opened its doors, we will revive two of the plays from its opening season

Great Shakespeare speeches and David Tennant’s Richard II are available to watch on the BBC Shakespeare Lives website

400 years after Shakespeare's death, we welcomed visitors from across the world to celebrate the playwright's birthday

An extra performer appeared on stage for the opening night at the Bradford Alhambra - Blue Peter presenter Radzi Chinyanganya

Our Artistic Director Gregory Doran pays tribute to Guy Woolfenden, our former Composer and Director of Music, who died last week

Our Well Said! exhibition of favourite Shakespeare quotes opens and we talk to artist Gary Breeze about carving Shakespeare’s words into stone

Our Artistic Director delivers the prestigious Richard Dimbleby lecture

Performance capture technology will be used to put an animated Ariel live on the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage

Shakespeare is not just for an age, nor just for all time, but for everyone. Gregory Doran explains why his 400th anniversary is a good time to reaffirm that belief

We partner with Google to create an exciting new 360 view of a performance