The Olivier Award-winning smash hit returns in 2025
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What’s on
Dear England
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Dear England
James Graham’s Olivier-Award winning smash-hit returns to the National Theatre, directed by Rupert Gould.
10 March — 24 May 2025
Mnemonic
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Mnemonic
25 years after its first staging, Complicité bring their ‘Astonishing, transfixing, transcendent production’ (New York Times) back to the National Theatre.
Until 10 August 2024
Connections 2024
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Connections 2024
Our annual, nationwide youth theatre festival, established for 30 years, featuring 10 new plays and the talent of young people from across the UK.
Until 29 June 2024
The Hot Wing King
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The Hot Wing King
Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy makes its London debut in a fiery new production directed by Roy Alexander Weise.
11 July — 14 September 2024
The Grapes of Wrath
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The Grapes of Wrath
Carrie Cracknell (Julie, The Deep Blue Sea) directs Frank Galati’s Tony Award-winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece.
17 July — 14 September 2024
Coriolanus
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Coriolanus
David Oyelowo makes his highly anticipated return to the London stage in Lyndsey Turner’s thrilling new production of Shakespeare’s timeless political tragedy.
11 September — 9 November 2024
A Tupperware of Ashes
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A Tupperware of Ashes
Meera Syal is Queenie in Tanika Gupta's new play, a vivid and heart-breaking family drama about life, immigration and the Indian spiritual cycle of death and rebirth.
25 September — 16 November 2024
The Other Place
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The Other Place
Emma D’Arcy is Annie in this retelling of the classic Antigone story, from Alexander Zeldin (The Confessions). With music by Yannis Philippakis (Foals).
27 September — 9 November 2024
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The Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre
The landmark Tony Award®-winning production returns to the West End for a strictly limited encore season this autumn.
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Present Laughter in cinemas from 18 July
Andrew Scott (Vanya, Fleabag) dazzles in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy.
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Stream Till the Stars Come Down
Till the Stars Come Down, the sold-out, critically acclaimed new play by Beth Steel, is now streaming on National Theatre at Home.
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Summer on the South Bank
A Taste of KERB, Forza Taps and Lasdun Bar are popping up outside on the National Theatre terraces and riverside.
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Get ready for River Stage
Our FREE outdoor festival returns, every weekend from 5 – 28 July