The National Theatre Collection makes the best of British Theatre available worldwide to libraries, schools, universities and the wider education sector. The Collection is free to state schools and can currently be accessed from home. You can watch shows from Small Island and Yerma to Jane Eyre and Othello.
You can access the Nationla Theatre’s Archive catalogue. Here you can explore creative and technical records of National Theatre productions, including researching a particular artist’s career and work at the NT or the cast and crew who worked on a specific production.
Each year the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK's most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow.
Hundreds of youth theatre companies and thousands of young people from every corner of the UK produce a Connections play every year.
New Views is the National Theatre’s playwriting programme for students, aged 14 – 18.
Through New Views, teachers receive high quality training in delivering playwriting workshops, with support from professional playwrights and the NT Learning department.
Here, you can access a wide range of resources including rehearsal diaries from specific productions, videos exploring our work backstage and how your students can explore these techniques at home or in the classroom.
We are dedicated to offering excellent professional development opportunities for teachers at the National Theatre. Find out more about our offer here, including the annual Drama Teacher Conference.
Teachers at schools in the UK can now stream recordings of National Theatre productions directly to their classrooms, for free.
