Multi-award winner Kenneth Branagh plays Prospero in Shakespeare’s final play, a meditation on art, power and freedom.

Double Olivier Award-winner Mark Gatiss makes his RSC debut as the Notorious Arturo Ui, a small-time crook with big boss ambitions.

Helen Hunt and Kenneth Branagh feature in Laura Wade’s vital new version of Chekhov’s final play, directed by Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey.

A fresh retelling of Shakespeare’s classic comedy of magic and mayhem, co-produced with the UK's leading children's theatre.

One wrong move and everything could shatter in this deeply evocative story of self-determination and the search for family and belonging.

Daniel Evans directs Ncuti Gatwa as Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare in this thrilling imagining of the relationship between two literary icons at odds with their time.

Our First Encounters production of King Lear will tour from September to December 2025.

Shakespeare's razor-sharp thriller of hypocrisy and corruption.

Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester is Cyrano, fiercely funny and intensely romantic but with one large problem: his nose.

Daniel Raggett returns to direct Shakespeare’s story power and ambition in the intimate setting of The Other Place, with Sam Heughan and Lia Williams.

Join the us this winter as we return to the Barbican with an exhilarating new take on a beloved classic myth of love, loss, redemption – and pirates.

Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...

Take a seat at our make-believe Christmas restaurant, choose your ‘food’ and colour it in for this merry blend of creativity, comedy and music.

Gather your chiddlers to see Roald Dahl’s unforgettable story come to life this winter.

The Nobel-winning saga about love, ownership and the end of Empire is retold in this acclaimed, two-part ‘masterpiece’ (Times).

A groundbreaking theatrical event of two high-energy gig-theatre performances that revisit four of Shakespeare’s most famous characters.

A bold and uplifting new musical telling the true story of a boy who hopes to defy expectations and give hope for tomorrow.

Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey directs Alfred Enoch as Shakespeare’s Henry V, following their acclaimed collaboration on Pericles in 2024.