Be Transformed Announcement
Join us this summer and be transformed by a kaleidoscope of timeless tales of love, revenge, truth, power and peace.
Summer in the Globe Theatre begins in the dangerous world of the American West with an exciting new production of Romeo and Juliet, before a thrilling Globe first as Arthur Miller’s electrifying The Crucible premieres in the iconic wooden ‘O’ for a limited run.
Be transported to raucous Elizabethan England for The Merry Wives of Windsor, be prepared to have your world turned upside down in the dizzying Twelfth Night, and be ready to see the reality of our heroes in the rarely performed cynical satire, Troilus and Cressida.
Plus, the Witches are back as our spooktacular family show, Rough Magic, returns to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse over the summer holidays. And our ultralive ‘Cue Scripts’ experiment returns to the Globe with A Midsummer Night’s Dream: For One Night Only.
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Introducing Summer 2025
25 April – 2 August
Photography by Rich Lakos
Art Direction by Kim Garrity
‘These violent delights have violent ends’
Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes (Much Ado About Nothing, 2024) transforms the Globe Theatre into a dangerous and exciting world of the Wild West. Abdul Sessay (Dear England, National) and Lola Shalam (Women, Beware the Devil, Almeida) are the famous ‘star-cross’d lovers’ in this exciting new production, which sees an ancient grudge erupt between two sworn enemies. Saloon brawls and frenzied parties give way to brutal gunfights and violent retribution as a divided town faces its final frontier. Find out who is joining Sessay and Shalam in the Company here, with further casting to be announced soon.
Whose freedom will you sacrifice for your own?
When rumours grow that a group of girls are practising witchcraft, mass hysteria sweeps through the town of Salem, Massachusetts. Ola Ince (Othello, 2024) returns to direct Arthur Miller’s modern classic about Salem in 1692 and McCarthy’s 1950s America in a Globe Theatre first. Consumed by paranoia, superstition and a ruthless sense of justice, what lies are the townspeople prepared to tell themselves to survive?
8 May – 12 July
Photography by Rich Lakos
Art Direction by Kim Garrity
4 July – 20 September
Photography by Rich Lakos
Art Direction by Kim Garrity
Take a walk on the wild side
Elizabethan propriety dissolves into bacchanalian chaos in this story of mischief, madness, and metamorphoses directed by Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes (The Comedy of Errors, 2024). Disreputable knight Sir John Falstaff hatches a plan to restore his fortunes by seducing two wealthy housewives, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, who decide to play their own tricks in this unexpected story of mischief, madness and metamorphoses.
Love can be as changeable as the weather
Robin Belfield (Princess Essex, 2024) returns to direct Shakespeare’s dizzying tragicomedy, where love can be as changeable as the weather. It’s a day of celebration in Ilyria, but not everyone is in the mood for frivolity: the lovesick duke, the mourning heiress, and the besotted steward, to name a few. As grief-stricken Viola tries to learn the rules of this new bittersweet society, she soon finds herself in a strange love tangle fuelled by loss, longing, and secret desires.
8 August – 25 October
Photography by Rich Lakos
Art Direction by Studio Doug
26 September – 26 October
Photography by Rich Lakos
Art Direction by Studio Doug
Never meet your heroes
Shakespeare’s study of war finds its satirical voice, asking what happens when heroes are reduced to their base desires. In his Globe debut, director Owen Horsley (Twelfth Night, Regent’s Park Open Air) explores the cult of celebrity and the egos that propel wars forward in Shakespeare’s cynical, satirical study of appearance versus reality.
‘When my cue comes, call me…’
Following the success of Twelfth Night in 2023, the ‘Cue Scripts’ experiment returns, putting the original process at the heart of the Globe Theatre with direction from Blanche McIntyre (Antony & Cleopatra, 2024). With the company of actors all meeting for the first time on the day of the performance, this evening promises spontaneity, revelations, and joy! Gather for an ultra-live experiment as we recreate Shakespeare’s magical comedy for one night only.
Sunday 14 September
Photography by Leora Bermeister for Farelight Productions
Art Direction by Hollie Marshall
19 July – 23 August
Photography by Rich Lakos
Art Direction by Studio Doug
‘Magical joy… an absolute treat of a show’ ***** Broadway World
Our summer 2024 family hit returns as the Weird Sisters from Macbeth bring their supernaturally silly adventure back to the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Globe Director of Education Lucy Cuthbertson and Splendid Productions’ Kerry Frampton and Ben Hales join forces again to bring you a spooktacular summertime treat for all ages. The Weird Sisters need all the help they can get from their audience of supernatural apprentices (that’s you!) to assist in the world of Shakespeare’s magical characters.
Already announced
25 April – 2 August
Photography by Rich Lakos
Art Direction by Alexandria Vernon
Our flagship project for secondary schools, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, returns for its 19th year in the spring with a daring production of Macbeth in the Globe Theatre, created especially for young people. The Globe’s Director of Education, Lucy Cuthbertson (Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank 2024: Romeo and Juliet; Rough Magic; Midsummer Mechanicals), directs this daring 90-minute production of the timeless tale of ambition and tyranny. It’s the perfect introduction to Shakespeare for everyone.
Michelle Terry, Artistic Director, says: I am delighted to share our 2025 summer season. The Globe is an independent charity, and as a charity our focus is always on our beneficiaries. At the heart of the Globe is the relationship between our beneficiaries – our artists and our audiences. It seems too obvious to say, but they can’t exist without each other and that is especially true in the embrace of our wooden ‘O’.
These are complicated times for cultural organisations: how can we continue to create and experiment, question, excite, and provoke at the same time as reassure an audience that the experience they have will be deserving of their precious time and hard-earned cash. This season at The Globe has artists and audience in mind as we try to balance well-known and beloved plays, with lesser known, but equally extraordinary ones.
We hope this season strikes that balance; with these timely & timeless tales told by some of the most important artists working in British Theatre today. We also hope this exciting season comes at a price that people can afford. A price that allows people to take a punt on a play they may not know, in an iconic theatre they may never have visited before, in the company of people that they know, as well as those they have never met. Last year, I’m incredibly proud that despite the precarity of the moment, 51%, or precisely 220,351, of our tickets were available at £30 or under, and nearly 75,000 people not only saw a play, but were part of the experience with our unique and precious £5 Groundling ticket.
Accessible ticket pricing is crucial to us at the Globe, not only to ensure the Theatre truly is a place that is open and available for all, but because a theatrical experience shared by thousands of people is democracy in action. Theatre is the space for people from all walks of life, from all around the world, across every socio-political spectrum, to come together, in peace with delicious kindness, and for a brief amount of time to imagine others’ lives, to debate others’ points of view, to empathise with others’ experiences and to be taken to worlds elsewhere before returning back to this one.
All of us at The Globe look forward to welcoming people during the summer, come rain or shine, to experience together the magic and importance of storytelling.
Sunday 9 March
Shakespeare’s Globe welcomes the Ramadan Tent Project again to break fast in the iconic, open-air Globe Theatre as part of Open Iftar 2025. Since 2013, Open Iftar has connected over 500,000 people during the holy month of Ramadan through free events that are open to all. The theme of Ramadan Festival 2025 is Connection, so you can expect engaging speeches, community cohesion, free food, spiritual reflection, prayers and great conversations. This event is free and open to all, regardless of faith. Advance registration is required.
Continuing to transport visitors 400 years into the past, this summer we’re adding specialist tours inspired by Shakespeare’s most-loved titles alongside our existing offering.
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From exciting storytellings to interactive workshops, summer 2025 guarantees fun for all the family, as we bring some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, like A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth, to life for little ones and their grown-ups.
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This year marks 30 years of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, and we’re continuing to build that legacy with new Study Days, and Research in Action events.
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Whether you’re looking to fuel the passions of budding young actors or find exciting ways for teens to engage with Shakespeare and his plays, we’ve got a full range of activities for ages 9-19.
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2025 ushers in a new series of essential conversations with artists and scholars, exploring the work we do in relation to the world we live in, all free of charge.
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Our professional development programme for actors and directors uses unique Globe practices to explore these crafts from new angles.
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Don’t forget we have worlds inside London’s only candlelit theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, still to enjoy this winter.
Cymbeline
A secret marriage changes the course of two ancient kingdoms. For the first time in ten years, see Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s late, tragic comedy of love and rebellion, in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Director Jennifer Tang makes her Globe directorial debut.
Three Sisters
For the first time at the Globe, experience the work of playwright Anton Chekhov with this twentieth century classic. Their world is going up in flames, one minute at a time. But can three sisters create the change they’re longing for? Caroline Steinbeis returns to the Playhouse to direct the world premiere of a new translation by playwright Rory Mullarkey.
