Watch Ian Mckellen On Stage online with National Theatre at Home.

With stories and anecdotes from his illustrious career on stage and screen, McKellen performs extracts from his most iconic performances, including Shakespeare's King Lear and Tolkien's Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.

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Everyone loves a wedding…

It’s Sylvia and Marek’s wedding and you are all invited.

Over the course of a hot summer’s day, a family gathers to welcome a newcomer into their midst. But as the vodka flows and dances are shared, passions boil over and the limits of love are tested.

What happens...

An extraordinary true story about an ordinary family.

When one moment changes everything, Henry’s family are split between a past they no longer recognise, and a future they could never foresee.

Based on the Sunday Times best-selling autobiography by Henry Fraser, The Little Big Things is a upl...

Stream The Wife of Willesden play with National Theatre at Home.

A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there’s no shame in her game. The question is: are you ready to hear it? Because this woman’s got the gi...

Stream Much Ado About Nothing online with National Theatre at Home.

Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity.

The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists...

Stream National Theatre's Twelfth Night with National Theatre at Home.

Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.

A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out...

Stream London Assurance with National Theatre at Home.

Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell-Beale take the lead in two of the greatest comic roles of the English stage, in this brilliantly funny play.

Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a ric...

Stream Kerry Jackson with National Theatre at Home.

You can’t wait to meet her.

El Barco is the newest tapas restaurant in fashionable Walthamstow Village, and it’s Kerry Jackson’s pride and joy.

Wearing her working-class roots as a badge of honour, Kerry navigates the local characters in a b...

Stream Jack Absolute Flies Again with National Theatre at Home.

From the writer of the Broadway smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors comes a hilarious new play, set in 1940s British summertime.

After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to rejoin his fearless young Hurricane...

Stream Hex the musical online with National Theatre at Home.

A big-hearted and colourful musical, that vividly retells the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ fairy tale.

Deep in the wood, a lonely fairy longs for someone to bless. When she is summoned to the palace to help the princess sleep, her dream turns ...

Stream As You Like It, a full play by National Theatre - Shakespeare’s glorious comedy of love and change, with Rosalie Craig as Rosalind.

With her father the Duke in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest of Arden.

There,...

Stream Jon Klassen's I Want My Hat Back with National Theatre at Home.

Bear's hat is gone. He loves his hat. He wants it back. He asks all the animals in the forest, but no one has seen it. WAIT! He has seen it somewhere...

Wils Wilson directs Jon Klassen’s children’s picture book classic, I ...

Stream JM Barrie's play Peter Pan in theatre with National Theatre at Home.

All children, except one, grow up...

JM Barrie’s spellbindingly, classic tale Peter Pan takes flight.

When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return,...