Our immensely popular 2012 theatre season is drawing to a close with almost all remaining shows having sold out. Do check with our Box office for returns.  It is the last chance to catch the witty sparring in The Taming of the Shrew and dark abuse of power in Richard III.  Much to our delight Twelfth Night will be transferring to the Apollo Theatre in the West End from 2 November.

Relive the magic of Much Ado About Nothing, Doctor Faustus and All's Well That Ends Well (all 2011) in a cinema near you. Our cinema series will be screened across the UK, Australia and New Zealand from 26 September and USA from 11 October. 

Our Education events programme, Merry Meetings continues to inform and inspire through pre and post show talks and platform discussions with actors.  This month we will be celebrating the 200th performance in the renowned Read not Dead series of ‘plays with scripts’ with Philip Massinger’s A New Way to Pay Old Debts.

This half term join us in the Exhibition as we plant a spooky Halloween pumpkin patch. Draw your own design or watch the sword fighting and other demonstrations on offer. Suitable for all the family.

To celebrate Halloween and the changing of the seasons we are giving away a coveted replica skull for you to play your very own Hamlet with. See below on how to enter.

Twelfth Night opens 22 September

Mark Rylance reprises his widely celebrated performance of Olivia in this award-winning production.
Actors Colin Hurley and Peter Hamilton Dyer share their experiences of the production in our Perspectives platform discussion on 4 October. Twelfth Night will transfer to The Apollo Theatre in the West End, opening 2 November 2012.

200th performance of Read not Dead series

On 23 September, Globe Education celebrates the 200th Read Not Dead performance with a reading of Philip Massinger’s A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Since 1995, this hugely popular series has been staging readings of rarely performed plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries.

Globe on screen

From 26 September relive the magic of Much Ado About Nothing, All's Well That Ends Well and Doctor Faustus on the big screen. Cinemas across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and America will  be screening these gems of the 2011 'The Word is God' theatre season. Click more info to find your nearest venue. 

Half Term in the Exhibition

This October half-term the Exhibition & Tour will be creating a Halloween inspired pumpkin patch - help out by drawing your own design. Throughout the day, there will be family friendly live demonstrations, including sword fighting and live dressing taking place; all included in the price of your ticket.

Building the indoor Jacobean theatre

In October work will start on the new indoor Jacobean theatre so you will notice some changes to our site. Read more about this exciting project here. The Globe Exhibition, Shop and Swan will be open for business as usual but entrance will be from Bankside. The foyer will be closed.

Win a skull

Win your very own life-like skull (worth £50.00) for those ‘Yorick moments’. To enter simply follow the link.

Charles Jennens: the man behind Handel’s ‘Messiah’

21 November 2012 – 14 April 2013

A major new exhibition at Handel House Museum explores the life, work and character of Handel’s great collaborator Charles Jennens. It will examine elements of Jennens’s life including his forward-looking editing of Shakespeare.

Superhuman, the Wellcome Collection

Until 16 october 2012 

Glasses, lipstick, the contraceptive pill – we take for granted how commonplace human enhancements are. Superhuman looks at our obsession with being the best we can be.