The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness. Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris, sees Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

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

Three friends who bonded over their radical beliefs in the 1930s reunite after becoming estranged ov...

Musical production of the space epic Aniara.

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depress...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing r...

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

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...

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

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...

Based on Shakespeare’s play, Timon of Athens tells the tale of conspicuous consumption, debt and rui...

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

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

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...

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

Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart...

The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised...

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

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's...