Shakespeare’s Globe has announced their line-up of productions for their summer season, which runs from April to October 2025.
Opening the season is a new production of Romeo and Juliet (running 25 April – 2 August), directed by the Globe’s Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes and starring Abdul Sessay and Lola Shalam in the title roles.
Other Shakespearean offerings will include: The Merry Wives of Windsor, also directed by Holmes (running 4 July – 20 September); Twelfth Night, directed by Robin Belfield; and a special production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: For One Night Only, which will be directed by Blanche McIntyre and take place on 14 September. The company of actors for this performance will meet for the first time on that same day.
The Globe Director of Education Lucy Cuthbertson will be directing a return to the stage of the successful 2024 hit Rough Magic, which will be performed in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. This will run from 19 July to 23 August.
Also directed by Cuthbertson will be their flagship secondary-school offering – the Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production, which will be Macbeth this year. This 90-minute production is created especially for young people and designed to support the curriculum. Public performances of this will run from 13 March to 20 April.
‘I am delighted to share our 2025 summer season,’ Michelle Terry, Shakespeare Globe’s Artistic Director, says.
‘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.’
Find out more about these and other planned productions at www.shakespearesglobe.com.