Workers in an auto parts warehouse in 1933 New York City inhabit a bleak, dead-end world in the depths of the Depression where, at least, they have jobs. Introduced by its playwright, Arthur Miller, it was the first in a series of NET Playhouse programs concerning life in America during the Depression years.

The stage musical Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby has toured the world to great acclaim. An adaptatio...

New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building w...

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by th...

The ultimate royal family crisis. Prince Hamlet's father is dead, poisoned by his uncle, who has usu...

Farewell the tranquil mind. A bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but ...

One person can make all the difference. Miss Lily Moffat arrives in rural North Wales, determined t...

A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man who...

Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a g...

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited se...

Fifty years after Richard Wesley's original production of Black Terror, Richard Lawson directs a bi-...

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curs...

Jess has a great life: a job she loves, a sharp sense of humour and a close group of friends. When ...

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 ...

An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them i...

Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the ...

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward sp...

TV-recording of the famous Swedish comedy play Djingis Khan, first performed in 1954.

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre...

Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped...