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Theatre
Tony Kushner (Angels in America) updates Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s visionary revenge play, The Visit
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Hotshot American writer Annie Baker returns to the National Theatre with The Antipodes, a new play about stories
Tried and Tested
Theatre
Brian Friel's 'finest and most universal' play gets a major revival at the National Theatre
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Theatre
Director Roy Alexander Weise revives Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical masterpiece about apartheid era South Africa with comedy and tragedy in miniature
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Theatre
Politics and family secrets spark in Hansard, a new play starring two-time Olivier winners Alex Jennings and Lindsay Duncan
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Theatre
Andrew Bovell's adaptation of The Secret River comes to the National Theatre, telling the story of Australia's early settlers and their clashes with the country's native people
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Theatre
After a sold out run at Bush Theatre, Jellyfish brings a heartfelt story of coming of age with Down's Syndrome to the National Theatre
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With Peter Gynt, David Hare returns for the National Theatre 2019 season, tweaking a classic Ibsen tale for the modern day
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Cinema
From NT Live screenings to the best of the Royal Shakespeare Company – theatre screened in cinemas has plenty to offer in London
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Theatre
Director Lyndsey Turner revives Caryl Churchill's masterful 1982 play Top Girls at the National Theatre
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Theatre
With ANNA, the National Theatre audience becomes part of Cold War surveillance, listening into a young wife's secrets
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Theatre
From apartheid and politics to a vibrant new family musical, here's what to book in the National Theatre's new season
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Theatre
As the National Theatre causes controversy with a season of all male playwrights, we'd like to spotlight some of the talented women writing and directing
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Theatre
Pulitzer-winner Bruce Norris returns with a provocative play about convicted pedophiles. Downstate comes the National Theatre after making a stir in the US
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Theatre
Director Blanche McIntyre gives Molière's classic comedy Tartuffe a boisterous update at the National Theatre
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Theatre
The National Theatre 2019 season brings exciting adaptations, long-lost masterpieces and sizzling new writing
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Theatre
The National Theatre revives Rutherford and Son, a merciless tale of industrial woe, with Roger Allam taking up the mantle (or stove-pipe hat) of the tyrannical title role
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Theatre
From lacy basque to bloodied wedding dress: first look at Cate Blanchett on stage in When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other
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Theatre
Hit stage adaptation War Horse is the inaugural show at a state-of-the-art new theatre in Wembley
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Best of
Even Cate Blanchett's luminous performance can't save this frigid and opaque exploration of sexual dominance and desire
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Best of
From Cate Blanchett on stage to Caryl Churchill's feminist masterpiece, here's what to book at the National Theatre in 2019
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Kids
Justin Audibert’s child-friendly production of The Winter’s Tale comes to the National Theatre
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Theatre
Avant-garde playwright Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King is staged with flair, verve and a patchwork of references
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Theatre
This superlative revival of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece has substance, form and a formidably talented team – now there's another chance to see it
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Theatre
After stunning, sellout runs in New York and Richmond, An Octoroon comes to the National Theatre
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Theatre
The Crown's Vanessa Kirby plays a wild party girl in contemporary version of Strindberg play Miss Julie
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French masterpiece meets quintessentially British as the National Theatre stage a play by Eugène Ionesco. Here's everything you need to know about the pioneering playwright
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Theatre
From genre-defying folk opera to avant-garde greats, here's what to book at the National Theatre
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Immersive
Explore outer space this summer in a new interactive children's show at the National Theatre
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Theatre
Public Acts invites a huge company of Londoners to join professional actors on stage in a community production of Pericles
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Best of
Nina Raine's thrilling examination of truth, justice and consent gets a West End transfer after selling out at the National Theatre
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Theatre
A relationship born in the dregs of a house party forms the basis of this charming anti-rom-com