NT Live
The best of British Theatre on a cinema screen near you.
When watching a National Theatre Live, you’ll always be at the heart of the action, watching the drama unfold on the big screen.
State-of-the-art filming techniques are tailored to every play, bringing you each performance as it happens, in all its glory. From close-ups that capture tiny flickers of emotion, to sweeping wide shots.
This your ticket to sold-out award-winning plays.
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National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step
1h 26m | 15
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland
NT Live: Inter Alia
2h 0m | 15
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
1h 57m | 12A
5-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother & daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic. Vivie Warren is a woman ahead
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
3h 0m | CTBA
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
National Theatre Live: The Audience (Re-release)
3h 0m | CTBA
Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry
NT Live: The Playboy of the Western World
2h 30m | CTBA
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery
NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
3h 0m | CTBA
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.