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External video: Hamnet (film) Actor Jessie Buckley CBS Sunday Morning interview at the Rose Playhouse, 9 November 2025
Actor Jessie Buckley talks to Seth Doane about her recent role in Hamnet, an Oscar nominated film in 2025. Buckley performed at the Rose during her…
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"The Rose goes to Wanamaker", 25 September 1989
"The Rose Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse" by The Anne Boleyn Files and Tudor Society. (Claire Ridgway). 18 February 2020
"The Rose Theatre: Archaeological remains tour" site visit led by Harvey Sheldon, 12 March 2015
"The Sonic Trail: A Playgoer's Journey": 1587 Sonic Walk (guided walk in Bankside and Queenhithe) using Echoes geolocated immersive audio guide), 2025
Tags: 1587, audio walk, Dr Faustus, sonic trail
"The threat to finding London's history", 30 December 1989
"Year of the Rose and the Globe", 16 October 1989
15th Anniversary Celebration (1989 Discovery),
Rose Revealed launch and HLF info, 8 March 2005
Parameta architectural plan FIX
A Concert for Christmas, 15 December 2014
Tags: Christmas, concert, event, Friends of the Rose
A Very Shakespeare Christmas, carol singing, 16 December 2016
A Voice for Richard, Yvonne Morley-Chisholm, 9 March 2020
A Walk on the wild Bankside, 22 January 2019
Alleyn Walks, 2022 (Guided Walks starting at Moorgate)
14 July
20 July
15 September
20 September
13 October
20 October
Art exhibition: Mirrorscapes, 28 April 2005
Tags: event
Art Exhibition: Simon Tarrant, 25 March 2004
Tags: event
Bankside Walking Tour with Harvey Sheldon, 16 October 2009
Book launch: "Spirit of the Rose" and rose scented merchandise, 8 March 2005
Tags: event
Cheapside Talk: production discussion about The Chaste Maid of Cheapside, 16 March 2015
Christmas Carol Concert, 17 December 2015
Concert: A Concert for Christmas, 9 December 2013
Concert: Carol Concert, 17 December 2008
Concert: Concert for Christmas, 12 December 2011
Concert: Country and Acoustic Music, 13 October 2014
Concert: Korros Ensemble, 13 September 2006
Concert: Passamezzo, 10 December 2004
company tour information for ten locations including the Rose on 10 December 2004
Concert: Passamezzo, 12 September 2006
Music from the Renaissance by Dowland, Wilbye, Nicholson, and others played on historic instruments including viols, guitar and lute, etc., lyric sheet, SE1 newsletter announcement on page 5, 6 and 8 (red box), open…
Concert: Passamezzo, 23 April 2005
Concert: The Alizé Quartet, 19 December 2004
Promoted as the "first recital at the Rose" after 1999 opening
Friday, December 19th…
Tags: blue plaque, concert, event, music, Toller
Dance: "A Measure for the Rose, an Elizabethan Dance Sampler", 16 September 2007
Discovery Days: "A Tudor Easter", 5 April 2025
Discovery Days: Archaeology, 2 November 2024
Discovery Days: Archaeology, 3 May 2025
Discovery Days: Archaeology, 5 July 2025
Discovery Days: Joan Alleyn Costume, 6 July 2024
Discovery Days: Play-reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream, 21 June 2025
Discovery Days: Tudor Costume - Joan Alleyn, 2 August 2025
Discovery Days: Twelfth Night Celebration, 3 January 2026
Edward and Joan Alleyn’s Wedding Anniversary, 19 October 2024
External video: "Behind the Rose Playhouse, London", Maverick Theatre interview with Celia Gilbert and Linda of the Rose Friends, 27 April 2021
External video: "Boo Tours Halloween at the Rose Teaser!" contracted with Boo Tours, 2012
External video: "Hamlet at The Rose- trailer" 08 February 2016
External video: "Othello-Trailer" by Time Zone Theatre
External Video: "The Taming of the Shrew - Trailer" by Time Zone Theatre, 2013
External video: "Thrice Ninth Henry IV Part 1 Teaser Trailer" by Thrice Ninth, 2014
External video: "Wilde Without The Boy- Tabard Theatre, 30 April- 2 May" 13 April 2014
External video: Dame Judi Dench appeals for support the 'Big Give' to help fund the Rose Revealed project, 6 November 2022
Tags: Dench, Rose Revealed, video
External video: Hamnet (film) Actor Jessie Buckley CBS Sunday Morning interview at the Rose Playhouse, 9 November 2025
Click URL to view the interview on Youtube
External video: Rally for the Rose (Ben Prusiner), 21 November 2020
Tags: video
Festival of British Archaeology, 14-29 July 2012
"Archaeological site of the first Elizabethan theatre on Bankside, where Shakespeare and Marlowe…
Tags: archaeology, event
Festival of British Archaeology, 16-31 July 2011
No events at the Rose (?) - check this
In this booklet in the section for Greater London, Correspondence, fact sheet, and…
Tags: archaeology, event
Festival of British Archaeology, 17 July 2010
Events guide, page 27: "Visit the site of the first Elizabethan Theatre on Bankside where Shakespeare…
Tags: archaeology, event
Festival of British Archaeology, 18-19 July 2009
Tags: archaeology, event, mudlarking
Festival: Bankside Frost Fair, 15 December 2006
Tags: event
Festival: Frost Fair, 22 December 2003
Friends of the Rose Newsletter (Christmas and New Year's Edition), December 2018
"The Rose Revealed - The Latest"
"A New Date with Marlowe" (Date change for Ken Pickering talk on Marlowe)
"Rose Playhouse Ceiling"
"A Yule Tide Ride"
Readathon 2019
"Playing with Power: Christopher Marlowe, Edward Alleyne, and the…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, September 2017
In Memoriam - Sir Peter Hall
Performance Open Day
From the Thistle to the Rose from the Edinburgh Festival to London's Bankside
Performance Programme…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, April 2003
Tags: Greenfield, HLF 2003, Lenox
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, April 2018
Fundraising
Martext Evenings (Marlowe)
Clothworkers Cedric and Tenterhooks
Tudor Trivia
Open Days: Dates for Your Diary
Caption Competition
Arts Corner (Review: "Will or Eight Lost Years of Young William…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, April 2019
The Fifth Rose Readathon
"A Brief History of Music" announcement
"Twelfth Night" at Rose Playhouse
"Visit to the Mithraeum"
Readathon Donations
"Thirtieth Anniversary Gala"
"The Rose Also Rises"
"The Rose: Archaeology, History, Drama"…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, April 2020
"Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!";
"The Ban on Mass Gatherings";
"If Music be the Food of Love...";
"Quotes for Our Times";
"Armchair Travels";
Shakespeare Quiz #1;
Letters
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, April 2023
Readathon 3 June 2023
Researching the Rose online talks:
How to Play on Bankside: Beers, Bears, and Roses - Dr Callan Davies
Women Investors and Performers in the Fortune Playhouse - Professor Lucy…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, August 2012
Upcoming Performances:
"Actor Revealed - An Evening with Liam Brennan" 10 September 2012,
"Cardenio" 4-29 September 2012,
"Pericles" 2-28 October 2012,
"Ghosts Revenants and Witch Hunters - a Celebration of…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, August 2004
Be a Volunteer or Steward and Help the Rose
London Open House, 18-19 September 2004
Comings and Goings (Marshal joining Board, Graham and Blatherwick leaving)
The Rose Theatre Trust is Looking for a Project Director
A Most Fascinating…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, August 2018
A Walk on the Wild Side?
Changes to Friends Membership Form
Visit to Foundling Hospital
The Theatre in the Car Park - York's Pop-Up Rose
Mobile Phone Donation
Open Days: Dates for Your Diary
Tudor…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, August 2023
Linda Shannon's Memorial Service by Franki Gray
Hamlet, Hamlet, wherefore art thou Hamlet? by Franki Gray
A Letter to the Newsletter by Christina Skaife
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, August 2024
"Much Ado about Numbers, Rob Eastaway"
The Rose's Seventh Readathon
Readathon Hats
"A Visit to The Rose Playhouse by The Strawberry Hill Volunteers"
"House of Easement"
"A Submission" (Christina Skaife)
Other News (Alleyn…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Autumn 2013
Honorary Artistic Associates
Meeting with Kim Cattrall at Canada House
"Shiver me Timbers"
Programme of Events especially for younger visitors (22 September 2013 - Food and Table Settings, 20 October 2013 - Theatre…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Autumn 2014
Winter Performance Programme ("Antiquaries of Terror" 31 October 2014, "Dark Tales by Candlelight" 2 November 2014, "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang" 4-29 November 2014, "Winter's Rages" 2-14 December 2014, "The Lark" January…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Autumn 2015
Elementary, My Dear Holmes
The Lost Valley of London's Rose
Scandals, Chapels, and Painted Halls
The Rose Unfolds Lecture Programme ("Twelfth Night, the Undead, and the Possession of Malvolio", 12 October 2015. "The…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, Autumn 2016
Foreshore Frolics on the Thames;
Membership News;
"Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On";
Dancing at the Rose;
Autumn Programme ("Romeo and Juliet", 15 November-10 December 2016);
News from the Board;
Evening at…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, December 2010
Rose Regenerated Campaign
The Rose Performance Season for 2011 ("Edward II" 10 February-5 March, "Antony and Cleopatra" 9 March-2 April, "A Century of Great Women" 14, 21, 28 March 2011, "Henry VI Part I" May,…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, December 2012
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, December 2020
"Directing at the Rose";
"Shakespeare North" (new playhouse);
Green Matthews review;
Upcoming Webinars (A Friends' Twelfth Night Extravaganza, A Voice for Richard, An Archer Prepares);
Rose Volunteer…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, December 2023
Message From the Chair of the Friends' Committee by Dermot McInerney
Greenmatthews: Shakespeare's Music
Ben and David Crystal - Exploring "Everyday Shakespeare - Lines for Life," Thursday 23 November, 2023 by Wendy…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, February 2000
Radar Scan for Rose Site
"Whoredom" (a play, Friends had ticket deal)
Archaeological Finds at Southwark Cathedral
Dame Judi's Dream Theatre
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, February 2011
Rose Revealed Project
The Rose Performance Season 2011 ("Edward II" 10 February-5 March 2011, "Antony and Cleopatra" 9 March- 2 April 2011, "Century of Great Women" 14, 21, 28 March 2011, "Weak Edward" April 2011,…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, February 2015
Spring Performance Programme ("Othello" 3-28 February 2015, "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" 3-28 March 2015, "Macbeth" 5-30 May 2015)
Christmas Carol Concert
Gastronmico-Historico Treat
The Friends AGM 2014
Ruffs and…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, February 2018
Forthcoming Productions (Love's Labour's Lost (2018), Will or Eight Lost Years of Young William Shakespeare's Life)
"Reflections on the Rose"
"Shakespeare's Secret Playhouse"
"Bonfire in Merrie England"
Visit to…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, February 2022
Closure of the website
Webinar review (David Garrick: An Actor and His Time)
Article about Shirley Newton and the Globe's 2000 production of Hamlet
"Phillip Sidney - and his very talented…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, February 2023
Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris and England’s ambivalent relationship with her Huguenot allies - Joanne Hill
Kemp's Jig - Jon Hooton
Researching the Rose
February is a deadly month - Mary Queen of Scots…and Marlowe by…
Friends of the Rose Newsletter, February 2024
Inaugural Annual Rose Playhouse Lecture - Sir Gregory Doran: "Titus Andronicus Revisited" by Norma Wilshaw
Valentine's and Other Romantic Non-Sense by Franki Gray
Fanfare for the Common Man by…