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.
When South Korean heiress, Yoon Seri, unexpectedly crash-lands in North Korea after a paragliding mi...
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble....
A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Deter...
Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters h...
An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious d...
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America...
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, ...
A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radica...
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job an...
Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped...
The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t En...
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – ...
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, ...
Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of...
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln depicts the final seventeen years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life, following he...
In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband ...
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the...
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...