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Joined May 2008
Our new Spring 2026 season has arrived — epic stories, big names, unforgettable theatre 💫 Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey bring together a season where the familiar is reimagined, and the new is discovered.
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World leaders, cultural icons and stars gathered to celebrate the US premiere of Kyoto, our co-production with @GoodChanceCal written by Joe Murphy & Joe Robertson, which opened this week at @LincolnCenter 🌏 📸 Photos © Rebecca J. Michelson and Michaelah Reynolds
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Are you prepared to hand your franchise business off to your children? In @QSRmagazine, Cody Teets discusses how to ensure your kids are primed for success when the time comes. | Link to article in comments.
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We continue to champion the importance of a creative arts education for all young people and to build a research and evidence base that demonstrates the very real difference an arts rich education makes to life chances. 📸:© Sara Beaumont https://t.co/nd7EE6h0RZ
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The Curriculum and Assessment Review has been published today. It is clear that the government recognises the important role that creative arts subjects play in a balanced curriculum and we can see progress towards ensuring that arts subjects are an entitlement for every child.
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📸 Prunella Scales as Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice, 1956. Photo by Angus McBean © RSC.
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Updated jmp (w @Henkel_JLuca) 1) Longer-horizon match quality data 2) Extended AI mechanism analysis 👇
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Her screen credits included the inimitable Sybil in Fawlty Towers, but she was equally at home in the theatre where she demonstrated her extraordinary versatility in plays by Wilde, Chekhov, Pinter & Alan Bennett. Our thoughts are with Samuel & Joe, & her wider family & friends.
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We are so sad to hear of the death of Prunella Scales. Prunella appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre near the beginning of her career in the mid 1950s, with roles including Juliet in Measure for Measure, and Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice.
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Together with Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi, in collaboration with Nippon TV and Improbable, the multi-award winning stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro will extend its run in the West End until 30 August 2026 💚
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Twelfth Night transfers to London’s Barbican from 8 December. Find out more:
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Congratulations to Prasanna Puwanarajah who has won Best Director at this year’s @uk_theatre’s awards for his direction of Twelfth Night 👏🌟
The winner of the UK Theatre Award for Best Director is Prasanna Puwanarajah for Twelfth Night, a Royal Shakespeare Company production. #UKTAwards
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@10DowningStreet Our Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans & Tamara Harvey and Executive Director Andrew Leveson said: “This vital trade mission represents an opportunity for the RSC to advocate on behalf of our world-leading creative industries, whilst also identifying new international markets.”
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We’re delighted to be joining @10DowningStreet, 125 UK businesses, CEOs & cultural institutions in India to explore new opportunities to share our artistic programme & promote the benefits of our pioneering learning work which is revolutionizing teaching of Shakespeare in the UK
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We were very sorry to hear of the recent death of the celebrated director Ian Judge, who directed many shows at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, at the Barbican and on tour. He will be sadly missed. https://t.co/o7bbJkBStS
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Theatre and opera director whose work stretched from Gilbert and Sullivan to Shakespeare
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📸: Hamlet, 2008 📸: The Hostage at the Barbican 1994 📸: Twelfth Night, 1979 📸: As You Like It, 1996
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Vinyl is the backbone of a diverse universe of products instrumental to our world.
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In 1980, he starred as Ralph Nickleby in our landmark production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and more recently, he performed in Greg Doran's 2008 production of Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of actor John Woodvine. John was an Honorary Associate Artist and performed in over 40 RSC productions between 1976-2008. He performed in Trevor Nunn’s acclaimed Macbeth in 1976, playing Banquo alongside Ian McKellen and Judi Dench.
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Photo by Joe Cocks Studio Collection (c) Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
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We are deeply saddened to hear of Patricia Routledge’s death. She performed in several RSC productions in the 1980s, including Henry V with Kenneth Branagh and Richard III. Our thoughts are with her family.
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Thrilled that The Constant Wife — our production in association with @davidsoho1 — has been nominated for Best Play Revival at the #UKTAwards 💫
The nominees for Best Play Revival are: Animal Farm, a Leeds Playhouse & Stratford East co-production in association with Nottingham Playhouse The Constant Wife, a Royal Shakespeare Company production in association with David Pugh Ltd Our New Girl, a Lyric Theatre Belfast
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There is a 64% chance of a rate cut on DEC 10th according to CME Fedwatch tool. that's almost a 4% drop from a week ago and 18% drop from a month ago.
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Congratulations to Prasanna Puwanarajah on being nominated for Best Director at this year’s #UKTAwards for Twelfth Night 🙌 Twelfth Night transfers to London’s Barbican from 8 December
The nominees for Best Director are: Nadia Fall for Abigail's Party Theresa Heskins & Vicki Amedume for Angela Carter's The Company Of Wolves Prasanna Puwanarajah for Twelfth Night #UKTAwards
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