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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre produces a full range of new, contemporary and classic plays in its three theatres, performing to all age groups and communities. It tours and hosts work from other countries, and carries out an intensive programme of education and development in the studio. Our funding supports core costs.

Funding awards

  • 2012-2013: £17,462,920
  • 2013-2014: £17,864,567
  • 2014-2015: £18,352,522

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The Shed: Mission Drift - The TEAM send a special hello message

The TEAM send a special message from New York to London. Their musical Mission Drift will be in The Shed from 5 to 28 June 2013. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/13oUM4g Tweet using #ntSHED and @ntSHED

Sabrina Mahfouz: National Theatre Connections 2014

Playwright Sabrina Mahfouz talks about her new play "A Shop Selling Speech" written for young people to perform as part of National Theatre Connections in 2014. More details and a play synopsis will be announced soon. Check out our website for more details http://microsites.nationaltheatre.org.uk/connections

The Shed: Meet the propmaker for Table

Russell Beck talks about the challenges of creating the iconic prop at the centrepiece of Tanya Ronder's play Table.

National Theatre: Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill is playing from 28 May at the National Theatre in London. Special preview prices available 28 May -- 3 June. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/16EpMz2 Simon Godwin directs Anne-Marie Duff as Nina Leeds, and Charles Edwards as Charles Marsden in Eugene O'Neill's audacious epic. Shattered when the love of her life is killed in the war and haunted by their unconsummated passion, Nina escapes her jealous Ivy League father and embarks on a series of tawdry sexual escapades until, cajoled by her appalled, long-suffering suitor Charles, she marries the amiable young Sam. But while pregnant, Nina learns a horrifying secret that precipitates a desperate, life-changing decision and propels her fatally into the arms of another. Following a family from the aftermath of World War One until the late 1940s, Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude is one of the great masterpieces of American theatre. Tweet using #StrangeInterlude Twitter: https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london

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National Theatre: Strange Interlude interviews with the company

Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill is playing from 28 May at the National Theatre in London. Special preview prices available 28 May -- 3 June. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/10D8BW5 Simon Godwin directs Anne-Marie Duff as Nina Leeds, and Charles Edwards as Charles Marsden in Eugene O'Neill's audacious epic. Shattered when the love of her life is killed in the war and haunted by their unconsummated passion, Nina escapes her jealous Ivy League father and embarks on a series of tawdry sexual escapades until, cajoled by her appalled, long-suffering suitor Charles, she marries the amiable young Sam. But while pregnant, Nina learns a horrifying secret that precipitates a desperate, life-changing decision and propels her fatally into the arms of another. Following a family from the aftermath of World War One until the late 1940s, Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude is one of the great masterpieces of American theatre. Tweet using #StrangeInterlude Twitter: https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london

National Theatre Live: This House Pre-show Film 'A Theatre Within A Theatre'

This House was broadcast live on 16 May 2013 Encore screenings are still taking place - find your nearest http://www.ntlive.com Having sold out two runs at the National Theatre, James Graham's smash-hit new play This House was broadcast to cinemas around the world. In this short film, originally shown before the broadcast, its writer James Graham, director Jeremy Herrin and current Labour MP Diane Abbott talk about what life was like inside the Houses of Parliament and why 1970s British politics was so surprising. Contains exclusive rehearsal room footage. Part of National Theatre Live -- the best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world. #ThisHouse http://www.ntlive.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ntlive Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ntlive Blog: http://www.ntlive.com/blog

National Theatre Live: Othello trailer

Othello by William Shakespeare broadcasts live to cinemas world wide on Thursday 26 September. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare's celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy. Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC's Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre's recent production of Hamlet. Othello, newly married to Desdemona -- who is half his age -- is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair, with devastating consequences Tickets on sale now. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com Part of National Theatre Live -- the best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world. #ntOthello http://www.ntlive.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ntlive Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ntlive Blog: http://www.ntlive.com/blog

The Amen Corner by James Baldwin - a photo shoot with Marianne Jean-Baptiste

The Amen Corner by James Baldwin is playing from 4 June at the National Theatre in London. Rufus Norris directs Marianne Jean-Baptiste as the uncompromising pastor of a Harlem church, with a gospel choir giving full voice on the Olivier stage. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/14n4YYu #AmenCorner Twitter: @nationaltheatre https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london

National Theatre Live: This House Cast Interviews

This House broadcasts live on Thursday 16 May Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com Get the inside story on the National Theatre's smash-hit production of This House with these exclusive cast interviews featuring Charles Edwards, Reece Dinsdale, Vincent Franklin, Lauren O'Neil, Julian Wadham and Giles Taylor. Find out what they found so surprising about the story, and it feels like to be a part of such a big ensemble show. Tickets on sale now. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com Part of National Theatre Live -- the best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world. #ThisHouse http://www.ntlive.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ntlive Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ntlive Blog: http://www.ntlive.com/blog

National Theatre Live: This House - A Video Glossary

This House broadcasts live on Thursday 16 May. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com In this handy guide to the world of This House, playwright James Graham and cast members Charles Edwards, Reece Dinsdale, Lauren O'Neil and Giles Taylor, explain who's who inside the Houses of Parliament. Tickets on sale now. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com Part of National Theatre Live -- the best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world. #ThisHouse http://www.ntlive.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ntlive Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ntlive Blog: http://www.ntlive.com/blog

National Theatre Live: This House audience feedback

This House broadcasts live on Thursday 16 May. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com See what audiences at the National Theatre had to say about James Graham's Olivier Award nominated play This House. Tickets on sale now. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com Part of National Theatre Live -- the best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world. #ThisHouse http://www.ntlive.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ntlive Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ntlive Blog: http://www.ntlive.com/blog

National Theatre Live: James Graham on This House

This House broadcasts live on Thursday 16 May Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com This House, Olivier Award nominee for Best New Play and Best Director, has enjoyed two sell-out runs at the National Theatre. In this interview, its playwright James Graham speaks about why British politics in 1974-79 was so dramatic and what made it so appealing to write about. Tickets on sale now. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com Part of National Theatre Live -- the best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world. #ThisHouse http://www.ntlive.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ntlive Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ntlive Blog: http://www.ntlive.com/blog

NT Future - transforming your National Theatre

Welcome to NT Future The National Theatre is going through an amazing transformation -- and we want you to be part of it. To find out more visit http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ntfuture Tweet using #NTFuture

The Shed: audience reaction to Table

This production is now closed. Find out what's on in The Shed: http://theshed.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ Table, a new play by Tanya Ronder is playing in The Shed until 18 May 2013. Rufus Norris (London Road, Doctor Dee, Broken) directs an epic tale of belonging, identity and the things we pass on. Telling the story of 115 years of family life, Table is a multi-generational story of love, ghosts and how to live. Six generations, nine performers, thirty parts and one special piece of furniture. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/YE5Bfc Follow @ntSHED on twitter Tweet using #ntTABLE and #ntSHED

National Theatre: Children of the Sun trailer

Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky in a new version by Andrew Upton 4 STARS **** Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Guardian, Independent, Metro, Times Howard Davies stages the latest Russian classic to be adapted by Andrew Upton, following their acclaimed collaborations on The Cherry Orchard, Philistines and the Olivier Award-winning The White Guard. Maxim Gorky's darkly comic play is set in Russia as the country rolls towards revolution. It depicts the new middle-class, foolish yet likable, as they flounder about, philosophising and flirting, blind to their impending annihilation. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/15Zb9RP Tweet using #ChildrenoftheSun and @nationaltheatre Twitter: https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theatre.london

Punchdrunk: The Drowned Man

Trailer contains flashing images Punchdrunk and the National Theatre present The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable A new theatrical adventure from Punchdrunk. From 20 June at Temple Studios, a vast building next door to Paddington Station. Step into the world of Temple Pictures where the Hollywood studio system meets a forgotten hinterland filled with dreamers who exist at the fringes of the movie industry. Here, celluloid fantasy clings to desperate realism and certainty dissolves into a hallucinatory world. Tickets now on sale until 31 December. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/ZVyCPR Tweet using #DrownedMan and #PunchDrunk

National Theatre: What audiences think about Alan Bennett's People

This production is now closed at the National Theatre. People will tour throughout England this Autumn: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/peopletour People a new play by Alan Bennett Playing until 15 May at the National Theatre Listen to what audiences think of Alan Bennett's new play People. He reunites with director Nicholas Hytner and Olivier Award-winning actress Frances de la Tour, with whom he worked on The History Boys and The Habit of Art. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/17sT9CO Tweet using #ntPeople and @nationaltheatre Twitter: https://twitter.com/NationalTheatre Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/national.theathre.london

National Theatre: Connections - Regional Festivals

Each year the National Theatre asks ten writers to create new plays for performance by young theatre companies all over the country. From Scotland to Cornwall and Northern Ireland to Norfolk, Connections celebrates great new writing for the stage - and the energy, commitment and talent of young theatre-makers. Bristol Old Vic: 25-29 March Sheffield Theatre: 21-28 March Eden Court: 2-4 April Royal & Derngate: 8-12 April Stephen Joseph Theatre: 16-18 April Lyric, Hammersmith: 16-18 April Royal Lyceum: 17-22 June Wales Millennium Centre: 24-26 March & 13 April Norwich Garage: 23-26 April Norwich Playhouse: 23-26 April Northern Stage, Newcastle: 23-27 April artsdepot: 22-28 April Soho Theatre: 29 April -- 4 May Salisbury Playhouse: 30 April -- 4 May Chichester Festival Theatre: 30 April -- 5 May Lyric, Belfast: 4-6 May The Lowry Centre, Salford: 9-12 May Warwick Arts Centre: 4-5 May Brewery Arts Centre: 2-4 May West Yorkshire Playhouse: 8-11 May Marlowe Theatre: 7-9 May Greenwich Theatre: 7-11 May Theatre Royal Plymouth: 7-11 May Tweet using #NTConnections and @NTConnections Twitter: https://twitter.com/NTConnections Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/National.Theatre.Connections

National Theatre: Connections 2013

The Connections Festival is the finale of the NT's year-long, nationwide programme of new writing for young people. 220 youth theatre companies from Scotland to Cornwall and Northern Ireland to Norfolk have performed these specially commissioned plays in 23 leading theatres across the UK. Ten of these companies perform at the National during the festival. The Guffin by Howard Brenton Mobile Phone Show by Jim Cartwright What Are They Like by Lucinda Coxon We Lost Elijah by Ryan Craig I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here by Stacey Gregg Tomorrow I'll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey Soundclash by Lenny Henry Don't Feed The Animals by Jemma Kennedy Ailie and the Alien by Morna Pearson Forty-Five Minutes by Anya Reiss Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/10peyuB Tweet using #NTConnections and @NTConnections Twitter: https://twitter.com/NTConnections Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/National.Theatre.Connections

The Shed: Table, an interview with the company

This production is now closed. Find out what's on in The Shed: http://theshed.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ Table, a new play by Tanya Ronder is playing in The Shed until 18 May. Rufus Norris (London Road, Doctor Dee, Broken) directs an epic tale of belonging, identity and the things we pass on. Telling the story of 115 years of family life, Table is a multi-generational story of love, ghosts and how to live. Six generations, nine performers, thirty parts and one special piece of furniture. Find out more: http://bit.ly/YE5Bfc Follow @ntSHED on twitter Tweet using #ntTABLE and #ntSHED

Untold Stories: Hymn and Cocktail Sticks opening night

Untold Stories: Hymn and Cocktail Sticks by Alan Bennett opens in the West End at the Duchess Theatre. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/15gCujT

Untold Stories: audience response

Untold Stories: Hymn and Cocktail Sticks by Alan Bennett opens in the West End at the Duchess Theatre. Find out more and book tickets: http://bit.ly/15gCujT

National Theatre: Richard Griffiths in The Habit of Art

In loving memory of Richard Griffiths, this is a clip of his last stage performance at the National Theatre in The Habit of Art in 2010.

National Theatre Live: The Audience trailer

The Audience broadcasts live on Thursday 13 June. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the acclaimed West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live. For sixty years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace -- a meeting like no other in British public life -- it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses. The Audience breaks this contract of silence -- and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional -- sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive. - The Audience reunites writer Peter Morgan and Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren following their collaboration on the critically-acclaimed movie sensation The Queen. The Audience is directed by Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) and presented in the West End by Matthew Byam Shaw for Playful Productions, Robert Fox and Andy Harries. - Tickets on sale now. Find your nearest cinema at http://www.ntlive.com Part of National Theatre Live -- the best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world. #TheAudience http://www.ntlive.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ntlive Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ntlive

National Theatre Live: People audience feedback

People - a new play by Alan Bennett - will be broadcast live to cinemas on 21 March Find your nearest venue at http://ntlive.com Audiences at the National Theatre have been enjoying People, and they want to tell you more about it before it's broadcast live to cinemas around the world on 21 March. Award-winning writer Alan Bennett is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner and Olivier Award-winning actress Frances de la Tour, with whom he worked on The History Boys and The Habit of Art. People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one's house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do? Dorothy (Frances de la Tour) wonders if an attic sale could be a solution. Find your nearest venue at ntlive.com Tweet using #ntPeople Twitter: https://twitter.com/ntlive Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ntlive

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