The company will return this summer with a production of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.
It has been announced for Shakespeare in the Squares will return for its annual return to London’s outdoor spaces and squares, opening at Leinster Square, W2 on the 3rd June and concluding on the 12th July at Fortune Green, NW6.
Shakespeare in the Squares is a not-for-profit touring theatre company that stages a new Shakespeare play across London each summer, performing for one night in every venue.
The company’s first show was in 2016 with Much Ado About Nothing, set at the end of the First World War, with nine performances in nine beautiful squares and 1,600 tickets sold. In the years that followed came Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and now, in 2026, Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Press night for Love’s Labour’s Lost will take place on the 10th June at The Charterhouse. The production will see the return of director Toby Gordon, who directed The Taming of the Shrew for the company last year. Casting will be announced in May.
Talking about the news, founders Martin Neild and Sue Fletcher said: “We are so proud and amazed that Shakespeare in the Squares has reached this important milestone. It is extraordinary that we have grown from 9 performances in our first year to 35 this year and that our brand – providing joyful and clear storytelling, wonderful music and dance, and family – friendly audience involvement – is now ‘an established part of the London cultural calendar’ (Time Out). None of it would have been possible without the extraordinary talent of the actors and creatives who have worked with the company, the continued support of our garden square hosts and sponsors, and our loyal and ever growing audiences who come back year after year. Thank you all, and here’s to the next decade and beyond.”
For the full dates and further information visit: https://shakespeareinthesquares.co.uk/whats-on/