NT Live

Hi-Definition Screenings

Captured live onstage and presented locally in high-definition video

National Theatre Live is the National Theatre’s groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British Theatre live from the London stage to cinemas across the UK and around the world. As we add titles and dates to our schedule of screenings, you will find them here.

From the company that distributes National Theatre Live, the Great Art on Screen documentary series takes viewers around the world for a fascinating look at the most groundbreaking artists and art epicenters in history.

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Click on the titles below for Content Advisory Notes

Janet Planet

This production includes mention of suicidal ideation.

NT Live: Prima Facie

This production includes references to sexual violence.

NT Live: Nye

This production contains discussions of illness and death, non-graphic depictions of physical violence, and non-graphic depictions of war and bombing. 

NT Live: The Motive and the Cue

This production contains alcohol use and intoxication, smoking, and references to sex.

NT Live: Present Laughter

This production contains discussion of sex, mentions of suicidal ideation, and alcohol use. 

For information about content for any of our upcoming programming, please contact the box office.

Current and Upcoming Screenings

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson). In her solitary moments, Lacy inhabits an inner world so vivid that it begins to seep into the outside world, in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's sublime debut film and one-of-a-kind coming-of-age story.

 

Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state.

From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the National Health Service, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence over the UK without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.

Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play.

1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.

Written by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and designed by Es Devlin (The Crucible), the Evening Standard award-winning best new play was filmed live during a sold-out run at the National Theatre.

The multi award-winning production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy featuring Andrew Scott (Vanya, Fleabag) returns to the big screen.

As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his manyand various  relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching.

Filmed live from The Old Vic in London during a sold out run in 2019, Matthew Warchus (Matilda the Musical) directs this giddy and surprisingly modern reflection on fame, desire and loneliness.