18 November 2019 Working with Shakespeare on stage and screen Professor Emeritus Russell Jackson in conversation with Michael Dobson, on the stories behind some of the draft shooting scripts, photographs of set designs, hand-annotated rehearsal texts of Shakespeare.
31 July 2019 Shakespeare Professor elected Fellow of the British Academy Professor Tiffany Stern, a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, in recognition of her research in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
22 July 2019 Finding new ways to help deaf young people access Shakespeare The RSC and the University of Birmingham have been exploring how rehearsal room techniques can help deaf young people understand and enjoy Shakespeare.
11 July 2019 Shakespeare and Creativity MA students performed two new plays at The Other Place As part of their Shakespeare and Creativity MA, students from the University of Birmingham have presented two new plays in response to Shakespeare at The Other Place.
06 June 2019 Week long workshop with RSC Director Iqbal Khan Shakespeare Institute students talk about their experience of attending a week long workshop with RSC Director Iqbal Khan looking at the provocation "What is a modern history play?"
29 April 2019 Exceptional, essential and highly original Simon Smith's 'Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625' wins the 2018 University English Book Prize.
29 March 2019 Shakespeare Institute's Dr Chris Laoutaris guests on Dan Snow's podcast Chris talked to the TV Historian about Shakespeare and Love
25 February 2019 How can actors and directors penetrate four centuries of myths around Shakespeare's plays? Martin Wiggins, Abigail Rokison-Woodall and Michael Dobson interviewed in Quest article.
18 January 2019 City communities connect with Birmingham Shakespeare heritage Community representatives from across Birmingham had an exciting preview of a major new project which will unlock the city's forgotten Shakespearean heritage.
28 November 2018 Japanese kyogen star joins universities' Shakespeare symposium Experts from the University of Birmingham and their counterparts at Waseda University were joined by Japanese Kyogen actor Mansai Nomura to explore how to bring Shakespeare to life for today's theatre audiences.
15 November 2018 Samuel Daniel and seventeenth-century drama at Oxford Elizabeth Sandis introducing a reading of 'The Queen's Arcadia' by Shakespeare's Globe.
Everything to Everybody A collaboration with Birmingham City Council will revive the fortunes of the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library