RSC Nursery

A timeline of significant events in our history, from the creation of the first theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon to the present.
100,000+ young people receive homework assistance from RSC performers and alums through our programme.
The Boy in the Dress, a brand-new musical, will make its debut in 2019.
2017 We present Snow in Midsummer, the first of our translated Chinese classics, as well as a season of Rome plays presented in Stratford and the Barbican. 2016 We launch a new The Other Place with a studio theatre, rehearsal spaces, and a costume shop. The Tempest marks the first live digital avatar performance there. Matilda 2015 The Musical arrived in Australia and debuted in August at Sydney's Lyric Theatre. In 2014, we commemorated the First World War's 100th anniversary by producing a new play called The Christmas Truce and highlighting significant female roles during our Roaring Girls season. 2013 On November 13, we launch our Live from Stratford-upon-Avon broadcasts to theatres and classrooms all across the world with Richard II. In 2012, Catherine Mallyon is appointed executive director and Gregory Doran is appointed artistic director.
More than 1.8 million people were reached by our invitation to UK and foreign artists and producers to explore Shakespeare as the world's greatest playwright through 69 productions, 263 amateur events, 28 digital projects and films, and much more.
A single RSC company of actors performed five Shakespearean works during their 2011 Park Avenue Armory residency at the Lincoln Center Festival in an auditorium with a thrust stage that was specially built.
Theatergoers in the US had the opportunity to experience our theatre for the first time exactly as they would have at Stratford-upon-Avon.
The Swan and Royal Shakespeare Theatres reopen in 2010 for preview performances and activities.
Shakespeare's cycle of eight history plays by Michael Boyd is transferred to London's Roundhouse in 2008.
2007-8 The Histories - a project to stage all of Shakespeare's history plays using the same company of 34 actors playing all 264 roles, in the temporary Courtyard Theatre, culminating in the Glorious Moment when audiences could see all eight plays over one long weekend.
2007 Both the Swan Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre are closed while construction is underway.
For the first time, all 37 plays, the sonnets, and the lengthy poems were performed at the 2006–07 Complete Works Festival.
We produced 23 productions ourselves, with more than 30 visiting companies, 17 from overseas, including Yukio Ninagawa's Japanese Titus Andronicus, Macbeth in Polish and Twelfth Night in Russian.
The 2001 Feasibility Study advises tearing down the 1932 RST.
We depart from the Barbican.
1996 We start preparing the plans for the Stratford location. 1982 The Barbican, leased by the City of London, becomes the new location for London operations. A old store/rehearsal space in Stratford was transformed into The Other Place in 1974. 1961 Chartered name of the corporation and the Stratford theatre become the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Peter Hall is appointed artistic director in 1958.