On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.
Josie Rourke directs Gemma Arterton as Joan of Arc in Bernard Shaw's electrifying classic. Performed...
Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes ...
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...
Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a g...
An aging salesman is fired from his job after a long career in it. Broken, without much to look forw...
In a run-down community hall on the edge of town, a woman has been cooking lunch for those in need. ...
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. From working class origins, she has reached the top of her ga...
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike...
The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depress...
Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths while ill-equipped...
A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Fo...
This delightful pairing of one-act musicals, one classic and one modern, takes a comical and moving ...
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, ...