NT : What's On : Productions
Current and forthcoming shows
Shows:
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...some trace of her
A multimedia performance using live video. Adapted by Katie Mitchell and the company from Dostoevsky's The Idiot.
Aug 28, 29, 30, Sep 01, 02 > -
Afterlife
A new play by Michael Frayn, with Roger Allam as Max Reinhardt.
Aug 28, 29, 30 -
The Revenger's Tragedy
A ferociously dark play by Thomas Middleton, set in an avaricious world that seethes with vice and retribution.
Aug 28 -
Her Naked Skin
London 1913. Militancy in the Suffragette Movement has led to women of all classes serving time in Holloway Prison. Lady Celia Cain meets a young seamstress, and her life spirals into an erotic but dangerous chaos
Aug 29, 30, Sep 01, 02, 22 > -
Waves
Following a sell-out run in 2006, and prior to Broadway, a second chance to see the original National Theatre cast in this unique and acclaimed production.
Sep 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 09 > -
in-i
A major new work of dance theatre created by one of the world’s leading dancer/choreographers, Akram Khan, and actress Juliette Binoche.
Sep 06, 08, 09, 10, 11, 16, 17 > -
War Horse
Following its sell out run, War Horse returns to the National. From 10 September.
Sep 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18 > -
Landscape and A Slight Ache
Following a limited initial run, A Slight Ache returns in a double bill with Pinter's Landscape, in the Lyttelton theatre.
Sep 13, 15, 24, 29, 30 > -
The Walworth Farce
Direct from a critically acclaimed run in New York, this remarkable play by Enda Walsh delivers an achingly tender insight into what happens when we become stuck in the stories we tell ourselves about our lives.
Sep 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25 > -
De Profundis
During his sentence in Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde wrote a letter to his lover, agonising over the lack of contact. A century later De Profundis remains an astonishing tour-de-force of self analysis. Read by Corin Redgrave.
Sep 22, 23, 29, 30, Oct 01 > -
The Year of Magical Thinking
Adapted for the stage by Joan Didion from her best-selling memoir of the same name, chronicles the aftermath of her husband’s sudden death.
Oct 07, 08, 09, 14, 15, 16, 21 > -
Oedipus
Sophocles’ magnificent tragedy in an intense and raw new version by Frank McGuinness.
Oct 08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 > -
To Be Straight with You
a work conceived and directed by Lloyd Newson
Oct 29, 30, 31, Nov 01, 02, 04, 05 > -
Gethsemane
This richly imagined ensemble play about British public life looks at the way business, media and politics are now intertwined to nobody’s advantage.
Nov 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11 > -
August: Osage County
The internationally renowned Steppenwolf Company production. This new play unflinchingly – and uproariously – exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.
Nov 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29 > -
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill, has been treated and is now cured, he will be released. Tom Stoppard’s darkly funny and provocative play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty.
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Mrs Affleck
Samuel Adamson’s new play takes Ibsen’s Little Eyolf as the inspiration for a passionate and tragic tale of obsessive love, set in 1950s England.
Jan 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 > -
The Pitmen Painters
Lee Hall’s new play is a humorous, deeply moving and timely look at art, class and politics.
Jan 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, Feb 02 > -
Macbeth
A National Theatre touring production for younger audiences.
Feb 10, 11, 12, 18 >
