David Tennant to host BBC Shakespeare celebration

David Tennant will host a live broadcast of a BBC/Royal Shakespeare Company collaboration celebrating Shakespeare's legacy across the performing arts.

The show will be broadcast on BBC2 from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on the Bard's birthday, 23 April 2016.

Further details of the project are to be announced.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has also announced today that it will take its upcoming cycle of history plays to China, as well as New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music.

David Tennant is an associate artist of the RSC, and will reprise his WhatsOnStage Award-winning performance as Richard II at the Barbican later this year.