Pop-up Globe

Pop-up Globe was a New Zealand theatre production company, based in Auckland, New Zealand. It produced Jacobean theatre, particularly the works of Shakespeare, in specially-built temporary replicas of the second Globe, the theatre Shakespeare and his company built and used. The company's theatre was the world's first full-scale reconstruction of the Second Globe Theatre (1614–44).

Between 2015 and 2020, Pop-up Globe attracted audiences of approximately 748,000 people to predominantly Shakespeare productions across New Zealand and Australia, constructing five temporary Pop-up Globe playhouses in four cities.

The company constructed the first Pop-up Globe in Auckland CBD, next to the Auckland Town Hall, from February–May 2016; Pop-up Globe's second season ran from 23 February to 17 May 2017 in a newly designed and constructed Pop-up Globe at Ellerslie Racecourse in Auckland.

Pop-up Globe's first international season, promoted by Live Nation Entertainment, ran from 21 September to 3 February 2018 in an area of Kings Domain adjacent to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia, which was temporarily called the Shakespeare Gardens.

The company ceased all performances in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic. A year later, in March 2021, with no foreseeable prospect of further international touring, the Pop-up Globe group of companies was put into liquidation.