The Olivier Award-winning smash hit returns in 2025
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What’s on
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
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
The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner, in Max Webster’s joyful and flamboyant production of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
20 November 2024 — 25 January 2025
Ballet Shoes
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Ballet Shoes
The beloved best-selling book is spectacularly reinvented for the stage in this new adaptation by Kendall Feaver.
From 23 November
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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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