A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).

What if Konstantin Gavrilovich, from Anton Chekkov's famous play, did not commit suicide and was mur...

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...
Overview of The Scottish Play through CNN style character interviews.

A mockumentary examination of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy using "breaking news" style interviews ...

Two friends meet at a café. The silent unmarried Mr Y and the outspoken married Mr X. When Mr X real...

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...

The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Bes...

The story behind the translation and performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in Klingon.

Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike...

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...

Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take cen...

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...