An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Simon Russell Beale, whose recent appearances at the National include Timon of Athens and Collaborators, takes the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, ...
On a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him...
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richa...
Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home o...
Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audien...
When South Korean heiress, Yoon Seri, unexpectedly crash-lands in North Korea after a paragliding mi...
Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited se...
Richard Armitage stars in Yael Farber's powerful production of Arthur Miller's timeless witch hunt p...
TV production of the Tony Award-winning play, based on the story of a Broadway acting troupe arreste...
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's...
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing r...
The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised...
Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes ...
John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwrigh...
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward yo acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son wit...
The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Bes...
Emilia Clarke makes her West End debut as Nina in Anya Reiss’ unique 21st century modernisation of A...