The Royal Shakespeare Company News

David Wood OBE will release his memoir Elizabeth Taylor’s Kiss and Other Brushes with Hollywood on 8th July, 2022.

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Richard III, starring Arthur Hughes, is to be screened to cinemas nationwide. This will be the first time the organisation has broadcast a production to UK cinemas since before the pandemic. 

The Royal Shakespeare Company has refreshed its education activity for Matilda The Musical to include a comprehensive planning guide for schools. The new guide, developed in close consultation with teachers, includes everything needed to plan, book and take a school trip to the Cambridge Theatre.

Paines Plough, in association with Women’s Prize for Playwriting, 45North and Kiln Theatre have announced that Amy Trigg’s critically acclaimed play REASONS YOU SHOULD(N’T) LOVE ME will tour the UK this Autumn from 7 September - 26 November.

The upcoming film adaptation of Matilda the Musical will open this year’s BFI London Film Festival. The annual festival is scheduled for October 5-16.

Originally scheduled for a 2020 run, The Merchant of Venice 1936 has successfully weathered the pandemic!  It is to premiere in Spring 2023, in a partnership between Watford Palace Theatre and Trafalgar Entertainment, supported by the Royal Shakespeare Company with a research and development period earlier this year. 

Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have announced that leading innovator in puppetry, animatronics, and digital animation, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, will create the puppets for the global stage premiere of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro, opening at the Barbican on Saturday 8 October 2022.

Playwrights Horizons has extended Will Arbery’s Corsicana, directed by Tony winner Sam Gold, one week, to July 17, due to popular demand. The world premiere production opened Wednesday, June 22.

The US premiere and strictly limited, nine-week New York engagement of David Hare’s new play, Straight Line Crazy, starring Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses and directed by Nicholas Hytner and Jamie Armitage, will be presented this fall at The Shed.

Simon Russell Beale plays the title role in Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, in a new version by Lucinda Coxon. Joining him are Clare Higgins as Gunhild Borkman and Lia Williams as Ella Rentheim. 

Dilated Theatre Company in association with Park Theatre presents: SUS, Barrie Keeffe's incendiary play about institutional racism and abuse of power gets a timely revival Written by Barrie Keeffe | Directed by Paul Tomlinson. Running 21 September – 15 October.

This summer, Sixteenfeet Productions bring their unique style of site-specific theatre to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for the first time.

Get a first look of the cast of &Juliet in rehearsals for their pre-Broadway engagement before the show opens in Toronto at The Princess of Wales Theatre.

Coming out of the pandemic, there were a ton of Artistic and Executive Leadership positions open at institutions across the country, and as those roles have been filled, that has opened up other jobs - causing the leadership jobs carousel to keep on spinning.

Those Women Productions is pleased to stage its production of House of Desires (Los empeños de una casa) by the 17th century Mexican poet, playwright, and theologian, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, in a translation by Catherine Boyle (written for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2004). 

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced that it will be staging this August the eagerly awaiting world prémiere of David Greig's adaptation of Charlotte Higgins critically acclaimed book Under Another Sky.

The Citizens Theatre has today unveiled the cast for its touring production of Shakespeare’s riotous tale of mistaken identity, The Comedy of Errors.   

Netflix has shared photos of Academy Award Winner Emma Thompson (Miss Trunchbull), Alisha Weir (Matilda); Lashana Lynch (Miss Honey), Stephen Graham (Mr. Wormwood), Andrea Riseborough (Mrs. Wormwood) in the new film adaption of Matilda the Musical. Check out the first look photos and film poster now!

Learn about this brand new take on the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical film stars Emma Thompson, Alisha Weir, Lashana Lynch, and more. Get the scoop on the film, and watch the first teaser trailer.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has released the new concept trailer for the upcoming global premiere of the stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro.