Love stories on stage

Love stories on stage

Fall head over heels with some of the best plays about love.

Our extensive library includes timeless tales of romance, passion, and heartbreak, showcasing the full spectrum of emotions that love evokes. From epic historical romances to intimate romantic dramas, there is something for everyone.

Captivate yourself in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, an epic, multi-award-winning play that intertwines deeply personal stories of love and loss. Set during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the play explores love in all its forms – romantic, platonic, and spiritual to offer a powerful meditation on what it means to love in the face of adversity.

If you’re looking for a light-hearted romance play, A Midsummer Night's Dream is the perfect choice. Set in an enchanted forest, the play follows four young lovers and a group of amateur actors whose lives are thrown into chaos by the mischievous fairies who inhabit the woods. This romantic comedy masterpiece captures the wonder of falling in love, while playfully poking fun at the trials and tribulations that come with it.

National Theatre at Home provides an unparalleled selection of romantic theatre productions that you can stream anytime, anywhere.

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Love stories on stage
  • Romeo & Juliet
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    Romeo & Juliet

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    Watch Romeo and Juliet the play online with National Theatre at Home.

    What is Romeo and Juliet about?

    Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them.

    This bold film brings to life th...

  • Constellations - Omari Douglas & Russell Tovey

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    Subscribe and stream the Olivier award-winning constellations play, starring Omari Douglas and Russell Tovey.

    'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

    A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They ...

  • Much Ado About Nothing
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    Much Ado About Nothing

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    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.

    What is Much Ado About Nothing about?

    The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Ital...

  • Blues for an Alabama Sky

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    Stream The National Theatre play Blues for an Alabama Sky with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

    ‘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....

  • Twelfth Night
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    Twelfth Night

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    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...

  • The Effect
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    The Effect

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    Watch The Effect, a play by National Theatre with our theatre streaming service.

    Watch the unmissable Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) and Taylor Russell (Bones and All) in this funny and intimate examination of love and ethics. Directed by Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Bergerac) and written by Lucy ...

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    Stream Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

    What is A Midsummer Night's Dream about?

    Deep in the magical forest a feuding King and Queen cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors, resulting in tempestuous love...

  • Constellations - Sheila Atim & Ivanno Jeremiah

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    Subscribe and stream the Olivier award-winning constellations play, starring Sheila Atim and Ivanno Jeremiah.

    'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

    A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They ...

  • All My Sons
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    All My Sons

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    Watch All My Sons the play with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

    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...

  • Till the Stars Come Down

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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...

  • Yerma
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    Yerma

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    Stream Yerma with Billie Piper with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

    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 stagger...

  • Constellations - Peter Capaldi & Zoë Wanamaker

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    Subscribe and stream the Olivier award-winning constellations play, starring Peter Capaldi and Zoë Wanamaker.

    Four casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities

    'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

    A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a b...

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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    Watch Cat on a Hot Tin Roof the stage play with National Theatre at Home.

    A Mississippi family gather at their country property to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The...

  • Jack Absolute Flies Again

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    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...

  • The Seagull
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    The Seagull

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    Watch Emilia Clarke in the play The Seagull, with National Theatre at Home.

    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...

  • Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

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    Watch Tony Kushner's multi award-winning two-part play Angels in America online with National Theatre at Home.

    This is part one of the part two play.

    America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, six New Yorkers with interconnect lives grap...

  • Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika

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    Watch Andrew Garfield in the play Angels in America part two with National Theatre at Home.

    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, ...

  • Constellations - Anna Maxwell Martin & Chris O'Dowd

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    Subscribe and stream the Olivier award-winning constellations play, starring Anna Maxwell Martin and Chris O'Dowd.

    'One drink. And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again.'

    A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. ...

  • Antony & Cleopatra
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    Antony & Cleopatra

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    Watch the National Theatre play, Antony and Cleopatra with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

    Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. Directed by Simon Godwin (Romeo & Juliet, Hansard, Macbet...

  • Othello (2022)
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    Othello (2022)

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    Watch Othello, a play by Shakespeare with National Theatre at Home.

    Take your seats for Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, Othello.

    Directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist), Paul Hilton (The Inheritance) and Tanya Franks (Mum).

    Wh...

  • The Beaux' Stratagem
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    The Beaux' Stratagem

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    Stream The Beaux Stratagem, a play by National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.

    The ‘Beaux’: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Litchfield.

    Their ‘Stratagem’: to marry...

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