Event History (lectures, concerts, guided walks, festivals, etc.), 1993-2026

Researching the Rose: Before The Rose: Marlowe at The Curtain with Dr Callan Davies, 11 May 2026

"Join Dr Callan Davies as he takes you back to the years around 1587, when The Rose is being built on Bankside while Christopher Marlowe is living north of the river up in Shoreditch, a stone’s throw from The Curtain Playhouse.
His ‘mighty lines’…

Researching the Rose: Ballads as Theatre 'Merch' in Shakespeare's London with Professor Tiffany Stern, 27 April 2026

"Join Professor Tiffany Stern to discover why theatrical broadsheet ballads were sold outside The Rose and other playhouses, who wrote them them, printed them & sung them, and why & how they were connected with the plays performed inside."

Researching the Rose: In Conversation – Jesse Berger, Founder & Artistic Director of Red Bull Theater, New York, 12 April 2024

"Join acclaimed American theatre-maker Jesse Berger in conversation with The Rose's Ben Prusiner, as he talks about his career in the arts, and shares his perspectives on producing classical theatre for modern audiences.
Learn first-hand about Red…

Researching the Rose: Lost Plays & The Rose with Professor David McInnis, 23 March 2026

"The vast majority of plays once performed at The Rose Playhouse are now lost, but what can they still reveal about the business of Elizabethan play-making and the audiences who watched them?
The excavations of playhouse foundations by…

Discovery Days: Tamburlaine the Great play reading, 27 January 2026

Researching the Rose: Domestic Tragedy, Lost and Found with Dr Emma Whipday, 26 January 2026 (postponed)

"Before true crime drama, there was domestic tragedy: a genre that flourished in the 1590s and early 1600s, inspired by a sensational series of recent murders . . . " This talk will explore this fleeting and ephemeral, yet significant, genre.

Researching the Rose: Tina Packer. 12 January 2026 - CANCELLED

Join legendary theatre director TINA PACKER, founder of Shakespeare & Company in Western Massachusetts, as she traces the emergence of theatres in Elizabethan London.

Discovery Days: Twelfth Night Celebration, 3 January 2026

Friends Discovery Day: "Join us at The Rose to discover how Twelfth Night was celebrated in Shakespeare’s day. Ruling over the festivities will be King Bean and Queen Pea, selected in the time-honoured way by two lucky guests finding a bean or a pea…

Researching the Rose: Beasts of Bankside with Dr Liam Lewis, Dr Lizzie Wright, & Professor Hannah O'Regan, 8 December 2025

Academic research presentation: "Join the Box-Office Bears team as they share their latest research into the lives of the animals forced to performed in the bear-baiting arenas that stood close by to The Rose."

Webinar: Researching the Rose: 'Joan Alleyn: No Mouse' with Calista Lucy, Dulwich College archive, 24 November 2025

Academic research presentation: "Calista Lucy, former Keeper of the Archive at Dulwich College, (where Henslowe's papers are held) pieces together the biography of Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner, Philip Henslowe, and the wife of its…

Webinar: Researching the Rose: Pub Crawling with Playhouses with Professor Laurie Johnson, 10 November 2025

Academic research presentation: exploring the association of playhouses and surrounding business activity, especially re food and drink

Richard III play reading, 1 November 2025

Friends of the Rose host a participatory play-reading of Richard III

Webinar: Researching the Rose: An Introduction to Philip Henslowe's Rose with Professor Grace Ioppolo, 27 October 2025

Academic research presentation: Dr Grace Ioppolo discusses how the Rose was developed by Henslowe as evidenced in extant business records, talk describes her digitisation project of the Henslowe and Alleyn archive in collaboration with Dulwich…

The Alleyns' 433rd Wedding Anniversary Celebration, 25 October 2025

Friends of The Rose host a social gathering to celebrate Alleyn's wedding anniversary to Joan Woodward, Henslowe's step-daughter. Display and demonstration of recreated clothing from their portraits. Food tasting, etc.

Webinar: Researching the Rose: Page of Plymouth with Helen Chaloner and David Prescott, 13 October 2025

Academic research presentation: Jonson and Dekker's lost play 'A Page of Plymouth' written for the Rose in 1599

The Eighth Rose Readathon, 20 September 2025

The Friends of The Rose organise an open day at the Rose with organised readings of selected plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare with special guests, Friends and members of the community. Minimal staging, etc. £5 for admission as audience; £10 to…

Open Days, August Summer Openings, 8-30 August 2025

The Friends of the Rose open the doors on the 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 and 30th August for 'Open Days' to welcome visitors to the Rose and offer displays and demonstrations including costume, dance, archaeology, etc
£6 admission for adults and teens; £20…

Discovery Days: Tudor Costume - Joan Alleyn, 2 August 2025

Friends of The Rose organise an open day at the Rose with costume/clothing demonstrations including the reconstructed dress depicted in the portrait of Joan Woodward, commissioned by the Rose Theatre Trust. Members of the public are invited to try on…

Discovery Days: Archaeology, 5 July 2025

The Friends of The Rose organise and staff an open day with archaeological artefacts from the Rose dig and contemporary sites on display. Public invited to touch small artefacts like buttons, shoes, bones, clay pipes, etc.

Discovery Days: Play-reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream, 21 June 2025

Friends of The Rose lead a participatory play reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream with parts decided by pulling characters from a hat. Fundraiser.

Discovery Days: Archaeology, 3 May 2025

Friends of the Rose host an open day and fundraiser with archaeological artefacts for display and handling. These include clay pipes, coins, bones and other objects either discovered during the 1989 excavation or environs.

Discovery Days: "A Tudor Easter", 5 April 2025

Friends of the Rose dress in Tudor clothing and offer an interpretation of Easter celebrations from the Elizabethan era with songs, dancing, clothing and food demonstrations

Discovery Days: Edward Alleyn Costume, 1 March 2025

Discovery Days: "Robin Hood Play Reading", 1 February 2025

Discovery Days: "Twelfth Night Celebration", 4 January 2025

Webinar: Researching The Rose, "How to do things with shoes: Digging (for) Dekker’s footwear", Professor Natasha Korda, 9 December 2024

Discovery Days: Archaeology, 2 November 2024

"Join the Friends of The Rose Playhouse on site to view our new artefacts. You will find out about the excavation of the site in 1988-89 and have a chance to handle over 400 year old objects from the period, found by Thames mudlarks. They are…

Seventh Readathon, 21 September 2024

Webinar: Researching The Rose: "Much Ado About Numbers", Rob Eastaway, 16 September 2024

"Discovery Days: Much Ado About Nothing / As You Like It Play Reading", 3 August 2024

Webinar: Researching The Rose, "Borrowed Feathers: Robert Greene and The Rose Playhouse", Dr Darren Freebury-Jones, 22 July 2024

Discovery Days: Joan Alleyn Costume, 6 July 2024

See more images in Social Media collection, 2015 Website capture. Costume was created in 2013 for the RTT by Caroline Akselson

Sonic Trail (full trial) and Rose Visit, 4 June 2024

"You are outside the Rose Playhouse and John Singer, a player in the company of Admiral's Men, invites you to take a stroll around Southwark and Bankside before the play begins. Join us for a 60 minute trial of our new circular sonic trail starting…

Sonic Trail (full trial) and Rose Visit, 22 May 2024

"You are outside the Rose Playhouse and John Singer, a player in the company of Admiral's Men, invites you to take a stroll around Southwark and Bankside before the play begins. Join us for a 60 minute trial of our new circular sonic trail starting…

Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture: Sir Gregory Doran - 'Titus Revisited', at LSBU, 27 March 2024

Sir Gregory Doran gave the first Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture, 'Titus Revisited' at London Southbank University where Sir Simon Hughes, long-standing member of the Rose Theatre Trust, is Chancellor. The talk centered on his 1995 production of Titus…

Webinar: Shakespeare's Music, Greenmatthews, 9 January 2024

Webinar: "Exploring "Everyday Shakespeare: Lines For Life"", Ben Crystal and David Crystal, 23 November 2023

The Rose Playhouse's Late Summer Party and Fundraiser, 5 September 2023

Webinar: Researching The Rose: "Who performed at the Rose in 1587?", Professor Laurie Johnson, 17 July 2023

Webinar: Reserching The Rose: "Henslowe, Theatrical Novelty, and The Comedy of Humours", Dr Eoin Price, 3 July 2023

Webinar: Researching The Rose: "The "Legend of Lies": Romance and Anti-Romance at the Rose", Dr. Kim Gilchrist, 19 June 2023

Webinar: Researching The Rose: "Citizen Players, Playgoing Citizens", Professor Tracey Hill, 5 June 2023

Academic research presentation: Professor Hill discusses the various associations between the Livery companies and the playing companies

Sixth Rose Readathon, 3 June 2023

Webinar: Researching The Rose: "Women Investors and Performers in the Fortune Playhouse", Professor Lucy Munro & Professor Clare McManus, 15 May 2023

Webinar: Researching The Rose: "How to Play on Bankside: Beers, Bears and Roses", Dr Callen Davies, 1 May 2023

Webinar: Researching The Rose: "Reconstructing ‘Harey the vj’ at the Rose", Dr Darren Freebury-Jones, 17 April 2023

Webinar: "Kemp’s Jig: a tale of bruised egos and sore feet", John Hooton, 14 March 2023

Webinar: Marlowe’s "The Massacre at Paris", Joanne Hill, 28 February 2023

Webinar: "A Christmas Carol", Gary Andrews, 13 December 2022

Webinar: "The Hamlet Voyage" by Ben Prusiner, Rex Obano, Laurence Publicover, 23 May 2022

Webinar: "Between London & Venice: early modern & commedia dell'arte" Dr Olly Crick, 3 May 2022

Webinar: "A Voice for Richard", Yvonne Morley-Chisholm, 7 April 2022

After the discovery of King Richard III's body in 2012, Dr Yvonne Morely-Chisholm recreated his voice using various forensic investigations.

Webinar: "So Potent Art: The Magic of Shakespeare" by Emily Carding, 21 March 2022

Webinar: "David Garrick: An Actor and His Time- an online talk by Clive Francis," 16 February 2022

Webinar: "Tom Chivers: Enchanted Ground," 11 January 2022

Book talk

Alleyn Walks, 2022 (Guided Walks starting at Moorgate)

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20 September
13 October
20 October

Webinar: "The Blue Carbuncle...Another Evening with Gary Andrews," 14 December 2021

Reading, online zoom event

Webinar: Exploring Archaeology in Roman Southwark, 18 October 2021

Three speakers: Chris Constable, Ireneo Grosso, and Antonietta Lerz. Introduced by Harvey Sheldon

Webinar: "Shakespeare and Collaboration" with Emma Smith, 6 July 2021

Webinar: "Edward Alleyn, Life After The Rose" with Calista Lucy and Peter Jolly from Dulwich College, 11 May 2021

"Using Edward Alleyn’s Diary (MS IX 1617–1622), letters and other documents from the Archive at Dulwich College, Calista Lucy, Keeper of the Archive, will consider some ideas around why and how Edward Alleyn turned himself from actor to gentleman…

Webinar: "Cleopatra and the Boys, an unfashionable essay" with Dame Janet Suzman, 27 April 2021

Webinar: "‘Save thou my rose; in it thou art my all’ (Sonnet 109): ALL the Sonnets of Shakespeare" with Paul Edmondson and Sir Stanley Wells, 20 April 2021

" All the Sonnets of Shakespeare : Presented by Paul Edmondson and Sir Stanley Wells. For the first time, all of Shakespeare’s sonnets — those published in 1609 and those within the plays — have been presented in chronological order. All the Sonnets…

Webinar: "Making The Text Ours", Jonathan Livingstone, 30 March 2021

Jonathan Livingston, actor, shares performance strategies for actors to effectively inhabit early modern texts.

Webinar: "The Rose Playhouse: Past, Present and Future" with Harvey Sheldon and Jane Sidell, 23 March 2021

Webinar: "A Voice for Richard" with Yvonne Morley-Chisolm, 19 January 2021

"Yvonne Morley-Chisholm : A voice for Richard- the Journey continues.
Following on from her presentation to The Rose last March, into reconstructing King Richard III’s voice,this live online talk will take us through the latest developments and…

Reading (webinar): "A Christmas Carol: a dramatised reading by Gary Andrews", 15 December 2020

7:00 PM

Webinar: Shakespeare North with Kathy Dacre, 30 November 2020

"In Spring 2022, the Shakespeare North Playhouse opens in Knowsley, ( Liverpool) near the site of the first known Elizabethan indoor theatre built outside London. The project, delivered by the Shakespeare North Charitable Trust, will complete a…

Webinar: " In Little Place a Million- an actor's perspective" with Michael Pennington, 10 November 2020

" "In Little Place a Million- an actor's perspective" : leading actor and Shakespeare scholar, Michael Pennington Royal Shakespeare Company, discusses how the dramatist's writing was affected by the very nature of the theatres for which he wrote, so…

Webinar: "Suggesting a New Phillip Henslowe", Professor Susan Cerasano, 29 September 2020

"Philip Henslowe has, for years, been thought of as a one-dimensional character, whose image has changed, over time, from that of a shady moneylender to a financier to an entrepreneur. In this webinar, Prof Cerasano will discuss a few of the ways in…

Webinar: "Marlowe's Mighty Roles", Ken Pickering, 15 September 2020

"Pretty Kitty...Christopher Marlowe’s Muse , outside the theatre dedicated to him in his home town of Canterbury...join us for the next in our fortnightly webinar series, when Prof. Ken Pickering will introduce her and four of Marlowe’s Mighty Roles…

Webinar: "Shakespeare as a Protest Playwright", Janet Suzman, 1 September 2020

"Janet will take us through two specific passages in her formidable career, in two separate webinars. In this first one, she describes her experience of directing Othello- a banned play- in apartheid South Africa, which has many resonances for the…

Webinar: "Faustus in a Virtual Rose: A Lunchtime Talk" with Professor Joanne Tompkins, 18 August 2020

Academic research presentation by Professor Tompkins who recreated a digital version of the Rose Playhouse, the Ortelia Rose model, interactive

Webinar: "In Conversation with: Oscar-winner David Parfitt," 26 May 2020

David Parfitt shares highlights of his career including producing Shakespeare in Love (1998), which depicts the Rose in Henslowe's time

Meals and Manners, 29 March 2020 (Cancelled)

Cancelled due to Covid-19

A Voice for Richard, Yvonne Morley-Chisholm, 9 March 2020

On-site lecture presentation of research to recreate the King Richard III's voice, including original pronunciation

Lecture: Julian Bowsher, "The Rose: Archaeology, History, Drama", 20 May 2019

Julian Bowsher, senior archaeologist at the Museum of London Archaeology, provides assessment of archaeological discovery at the Rose and other playhouses with interpretation of historical documents like the Peacham sketch depicting Titus Andronicus…

A Walk on the wild Bankside, 22 January 2019

Rose volunteer, Pepe Pryke (?), leads guided walk through Bankside and Borough Market.

Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow, Pepe Pryke leaving party, 25 May 2018

Pepe Pryke leaving party after 19? years of service at the Rose, volunteer and contract service, including operations management (foh). (Pepe would return after 2022 intermittently.)

A Very Shakespeare Christmas, carol singing, 16 December 2016

Christmas carol sing-along. Mince pies and mulled wine.

Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Celebrating Shakespeare through song and storytelling at St. Paul's Covent Garden, 8 October 2016

Variety performance of songs and storytelling at the Actors' Church St Paul's Covent Garden in association with the Rose as fundraising event

Talk: "Shakespearean Performance in Modern London: Discussions and Performances on the Shakespeare in Modern Theatre", 25 April 2016

Group panel including Duncan Moore (KDC Theatre), Bryon Fear (South London Theatre), Tom Salyers (Tower Theatre), Jenny Eastop (Mercurius) and Pepe Pryke, Rose operations manager and hon artistic associate give talk about recent productions at the…

Shakespeare 400th Anniversary, 23 April 2016

Open day scheduled from 10:00 - 5:00PM with a variety of demonstrations, performances, dance, readings, the Rose documentary film (approx 25 minutes), etc. to commemorate 400 year anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 1616.

Talk: "The Early Modern Theatrical Scene in London," in Conversation with Prof Duncan Salkeld and Dr Andy Kesson, 11 April 2016

Prof Duncan Salkeld and Dr Andy Kesson lead discussion, question and answers about Elizabethan theatre and culture in London in association with Museum of London Archeagology (MoLA). 26 tickets

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