The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across the UK and internationally.

The company’s home is in Stratford-upon-Avon, where it has recently has recently redeveloped its Royal Shakespeare and Swan theatres as part of a £112.8 million Transformation project. The theatres re-opened in November 2010, having closed in 2007. The project was completed on time and on budget, opening in November 2010. The new building attracted 18,000 visitors within the first week alone and received a positive media response both upon opening and following the first full Shakespeare performances. Performances in Stratford-upon-Avon continued throughout the Transformation project at the temporary Courtyard Theatre.

As well as the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the RSC produces new work from living artists and develops creative links with theatre-makers from around the world, as well as working with teachers to inspire a life-long love of Shakespeare in young people and running events for everyone to explore and participate in its work.