Famous faces

Explore celebrated actors who've brought iconic stories to life on the National Theatre stage. From world-renowned stars to emerging talents, National Theatre at Home offers a front-row seat to breathtaking performances.

Vanya
Dive into Anton Chekhov’s timeless and dramatic play Vanya, reimagined as a one-man adaptation that provides a modern touch and breathes life into a classic story.

The story of Vanya takes place on a rural estate where family tensions and unfulfilled dreams collide. Uncle Vanya and his niece Sonya struggle with the return of Sonya's father and his captivating young wife, Yelena.

Andrew Scott plays Vanya and provides a nuanced performance that draws you into the complexities of family, unrequited love, and personal disillusionment, allowing you to experience Chekhov’s world.

Angels in America
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America play is a landmark piece of theatre, and the National Theatre’s production brings it to life. This groundbreaking drama explores the intersecting lives of diverse characters during the AIDS crisis in 1980s America, grappling with themes of identity, mortality, and redemption.

The Angels in America cast, including Andrew Garfield, provide stellar performances that bring audiences closer to the raw emotion and complex themes that have made this play one of the most significant works in modern theatre.

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  • Inter Alia
    Movie + 10 extras

    Inter Alia

    Movie + 10 extras

    Jessica Parks is a judge, a mother, a wife, a friend. Her career exists inter alia (among other things). How will one unthinkable event pull into question all aspects of her life?

    Following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, the ‘dream creative collaboration’ (Radio Times) of Suzie Miller and...

  • Yerma
    Movie + 12 extras

    Yerma

    Movie + 12 extras

    A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child.

    Set in contemporary London, this radical production of Lorca’s classic tragedy builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax. Billie Piper plays the title role.

    Stream Yerma with Billie Piper w...

  • GOOD
    Movie + 9 extras

    GOOD

    Movie + 9 extras

    David Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays.

    As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthin...

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    Movie + 9 extras

    A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so.

    While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade.

    Unfortunately, living a doub...

  • One Man, Two Guvnors
    Movie + 11 extras

    One Man, Two Guvnors

    Movie + 11 extras

    Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from the dad of his fiancée.

    But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who has been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers, ...

  • Medea
    Movie + 10 extras

    Medea

    Movie + 10 extras

    Heartbroken and stricken with grief, Medea plans appalling revenge on her ex-husband, Jason, to destroy everything she holds dear.

    Helen McCrory leads the Medea cast in the title role of Euripides’ powerful tragedy, presented in a new version by Ben Power, with music written by Will Gregory and ...

  • Dr. Strangelove
    Movie + 9 extras

    Dr. Strangelove

    Movie + 9 extras

    Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, The Trip) plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.

    When a rogue U.S General triggers a nuclear attack, a surreal race takes place, seeing the Government and one ec...

  • No Man's Land
    Movie + 10 extras

    No Man's Land

    Movie + 10 extras

    Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart lead the cast in this glorious revival of Harold Pinter’s comic classic.

    One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasi...

  • The Brightening Air
    Movie + 12 extras

    The Brightening Air

    Movie + 12 extras

    How much of living is really just forgetting?

    The family home is more than merely a building. It can be a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or even magic.

    And, for brother and sister Stephen (Brian Gleeson - Peaky Blinders, Bad Sisters, The Mandalorian...

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    Movie + 8 extras

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Movie + 8 extras

    A Mississippi family gather at their country property to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell each other. Brick and Maggie dance around the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. Which version of the truth i...

  • Everyman
    Movie + 8 extras

    Everyman

    Movie + 8 extras

    Everyman is successful, popular and riding high.

    When Death comes calling, he is forced to abandon his hedonistic life and embark on a frantic search to find a friend that will speak in his defence. But with Death close behind, his time is running out.

    Chiwetel Ejiofor is Everyman, directed b...

  • The Land of the Living
    Movie + 10 extras

    The Land of the Living

    Movie + 10 extras

    ‘All my life – all your life – I’ve struggled with this: was what I did “wrong”?’

    The Land of the Living is a powerful historical drama set in Germany in 1945, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Thomas, one of thousands of children stolen by the Nazis from Eastern Europe during ...

  • King Lear
    Movie + 10 extras

    King Lear

    Movie + 10 extras

    Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, Ian McKellen is King Lear in Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.

    What is King Lear about?

    King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier –reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness...

  • Under Milk Wood
    Movie + 9 extras

    Under Milk Wood

    Movie + 9 extras

    Michael Sheen (Nye), Karl Johnson and Siân Phillips feature in the acting company breathing new life into Dylan Thomas’ poetic masterpiece. Lyndsey Turner directs.

    What is Under Milk Wood about?

    The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living in terror of her guests. A f...

  • The Seagull
    Movie + 9 extras

    The Seagull

    Movie + 9 extras

    Emilia Clarke ( Game of Thrones ) makes her West End debut in this 21st century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness.

    What is The Seagull about?

    A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs ...

  • Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

    Movie + 9 extras

    America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, six New Yorkers with interconnected lives grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.

    The Angels in America cast includes Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Denise Gough and Russell To...

  • Vanya
    Movie + 9 extras

    Vanya

    Movie + 9 extras

    Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End.

    What is Vanya about?

    Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust in...

  • Blues for an Alabama Sky

    Movie + 9 extras

    ‘To realise our dreams, we must wake up.’

    New York, 1930. Following a decade of creative explosion, the Harlem Renaissance is starting to feel the bite of the Great Depression.

    In the face of hardship and dwindling opportunity, Angel and her friends battle to keep their artistic dreams alive. ...

  • All My Sons
    Movie + 9 extras

    All My Sons

    Movie + 9 extras

    America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.

    But nothing lasts forever, and long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is l...

  • Chewing Gum Dreams
    Movie + 6 extras

    Chewing Gum Dreams

    Movie + 6 extras

    Meet Tracey Gordon. Friendship, sex, UK garage, school, teachers, periods, emergency contraception, raves, tampons, white boys, God, money. Friendship.

    The more she learns about the world the less she understands. Michaela Coel plays Tracey in this one-woman play that recalls the last days of in...

  • Death of England :Delroy

    Movie + 10 extras

    Unapologetically upwardly mobile and working as a bailiff, Delroy’s life spirals out of control on one surreal day as he races to get to the hospital where his girlfriend Carly is about to give birth.

    'Raw, gutsy and exhilarating' (★★★★ Evening Standard)

    Starring Paapa Essiedu, Death of Engla...

  • Mosquitoes
    Movie + 9 extras

    Mosquitoes

    Movie + 9 extras

    In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos.

    Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams play the sisters in this drama from writer Lucy Kirkwood.

    Originally commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club...

  • The Deep Blue Sea
    Movie + 10 extras

    The Deep Blue Sea

    Movie + 10 extras

    When Hester is found following attempted suicide, the story of her tempestuous affair and marriage breakdown begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion.

    Playing one of the greatest female roles of modern drama, Helen McCrory features alongside Tom ...

  • Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika

    Movie + 10 extras

    This is part two of the part one play.

    As the play continues, Part Two picks up the threads of our six New Yorkers whose relationships are in tatters and fates are rapidly intertwining.

    Prior, Joe, Belize, Louis, Harper and Roy continue their journeys through love, loss and loneliness to ove...