Live theatre broadcast to cinema screens around the world.

‘I grew up in Manchester in the 60s. If I had been able to see Olivier’s National Theatre at my local cinema, I would have gone all of the time.’ Nicholas Hytner

NT Live is an exciting initiative to broadcast live performances of plays onto cinema screens worldwide.

Broadcasts will also feature behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with artists. We hope to open the walls of the National Theatre and invite cinema audiences around the country and the world to share in the work we create.

We are thrilled to be bringing you these new National Theatre Live productions over the coming months. Watch this space for information on when tickets will go on sale!

14 October 2010
NT Live presents Complicite’s A Disappearing Number, live from Theatre Royal Plymouth. Directed by Simon McBurney.  Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play (2007) and The Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (2007).

9 December 2010
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Nicholas Hytner, featuring Rory Kinnear in the title role, David Calder as Polonius, Clare Higgins as Gertrude, Patrick Malahide as Claudius and Ruth Negga as Ophelia.
 
13 January 2011
Currently playing on Broadway, the Tony-winning musical Fela! comes to the National with Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Anikulpao-Kuti.
 
17 March 2011
Danny Boyle’s production of Frankenstein, a play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley.
 
Spring 2011
Also in the new season will be Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, directed by NT Associate Director Howard Davies, whose recent productions of Russian plays (including Philistines, Burnt by the Sun and The White Guard) have earned huge critical acclaim.  Zoë Wanamaker will play Madame Ranevskaya.