New shows announced for 2026/27 season

We’re delighted to reveal three new productions joining our previously announced 2026/27 season in Stratford-upon-Avon.

This winter 2026, The Bear and the Piano comes to The Other Place; a brand-new adaptation of the top-selling children’s book by David Litchfield made especially for very young audiences. This celebration of puppetry and music by Toby Olié and Tom Brady is co-produced with Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.

In March 2027, Brock’s Mill, a new family drama by RSC Writer-in-Residence Stewart Pringle, is directed by former Artistic Director of the National Theatre Rufus Norris. A eulogy to the craft of stop-motion animation, it delicately examines nostalgia and the fragile truth of memory.

In the Swan Theatre from February 2027, Sharon D Clarke is the warrior in director Monique Touko’s pressing re-examination of Shakespeare’s Othello that transports the play to a future and retells it through the lens of misogynoir.

Find out more on our website: https://www.rsc.org.uk