Shakespeare's Globe

The Globe Theatre is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse, first built in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his greatest plays. Each year the theatre season runs from April to October with productions of work by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as modern writers. Each year over 350,000 members of the audience experience the \'wooden O\' sitting in a gallery or standing as a groundling in the yard, just as they would have done 400 years ago.