This is Tim Crouch’s Tempest as much as it is Shakespeare’s. Admittedly, for anybody unfamiliar with this most fantastical of the Bard’s late romances, it probably isn’t an ideal introduction, but ...

Tim Crouch brings his idiosyncratic style to The Tempest, and it’s a match made in theatre heaven. Here, heaven is the Sam ...

The misbehaviour continues with Rachana Jadhav's maximalist set design, which is laden with puppets, masks and treasures – and secret disco lights, usually forbidden in this authentic candlelit space.

Paul Wills’s designs flood the interior of the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with gold – as though the theatre’s candle-light has turned liquid, dripping and smudging down pillars and creeping ...

Director Abigail Graham shines candlelight on Shakespeare's complex exploration of prejudice, patriarchy and capitalism in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. In a society that exploits minorities to keep ...

Do you have favourite theatres in London? Sam Wanamaker is one of mine. It’s a tiny indoor theatre next door to the ...

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced additional events running alongside the October – April Season, which features A Midsummer Night’s Dream (15 November – 31 January), Pinocchio (29 November – 4 ...

Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, now at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre on London’s Southbank, might seem to make for oddly out-of-season fare. Yet the play itself conjures calendric confusion and ...

Shakespeare’s Globe has confirmed the full company for Deep Azure, which runs in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from 7 February to 11 April 2026. Fynn-Aiduenu said: “I am incredibly excited for the ...

This is an intriguing reworking of what was probably Shakespeare’s last play about Prospero, the deposed former Duke of Milan ...