National Theatre Live is the National Theatre’s groundbreaking project to broadcast world-class theatre to cinemas across the UK. Each broadcast is filmed in front of a live theatre audience, with the position of cameras in the theatre tailored to each play.
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2h 0m
Five-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 and daughter in Bernard Shaw's incendiary moral classic
Thu 23 Oct |
1h 40m
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.
Thu 27 Nov |
3h 0m
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare's famous tragedy
Thu 22 Jan 2026 |