Celebrating Shakespeare's impact on the world

Shakespeare's Globe is a world-renowned theatre, education centre, and cultural landmark based on London's Bankside.

The organisation celebrates Shakespeare's transformative impact on the world by conducting a radical theatrical experiment.

Made up of the outdoor Globe Theatre and the indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe remains one of the most unique, remarkable and breathtaking theatrical spaces in London.

The Globe Theatre

Shakespeare called his theatre a 'wooden O' and like his historic playhouse, the Globe Theatre is a 360° auditorium.

With no roof over the central yard, the theatre is open-air, and audiences who attend performances and tours are told to dress for the weather!

The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is located on the same site in London, next to the Globe Theatre.Named in honour of its founder, the Playhouse is based on indoor candlelit theatres known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Lit by over one hundred beeswax candles, the intimate Sam Wanamaker Playhouse hosts plays, concerts, education workshops and events throughout the year.

Inspired and informed by the unique historic playing conditions of two iconic theatres, its diverse programme of work harnesses the power of performance, cultivates intellectual curiosity, and excites learning to make Shakespeare accessible for all.

Engaging with Shakespeare

At Shakespeare's Globe, more people engage with Shakespeare through their work than through that of any other organisation, with our education department long being one of the most active in the UK.

Activities include school workshops, public events, university courses and community projects, fulfilling Founder Sam Wanamaker's wish to bring Shakespeare and his work to a new generation.

In recent years, the theatre's long-standing reputation for international performance was consolidated by the Globe-to-Globe Festival which, in 2012 presented, every Shakespeare play, each in a different languag.

Around the globe 

Its two-year world-wide tour of Hamlet visited almost every nation on earth.

Shakespeare's Globe's productions of Shakespeare now tour throughout the UK, Europe, the United States and Asia, and its educational work is extending overseas, notably through forthcoming teaching centres in the USA and China.

More information :

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/about-us/globe-theatre/