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.
National Theatre at Home provides an unparalleled selection of romantic theatre productions that you can stream anytime, anywhere.
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The Effect
Movie + 12 extras
Watch the unmissable Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) and Taylor Russell (Bones and All) as part of The Effect cast in this funny and intimate examination of love and ethics. Directed by Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Bergerac) and written by Lucy Prebble (Succession).
As two young volunteers in a clin...
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Romeo & Juliet
Movie + 9 extras
Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor play Juliet and Romeo. The award-winning cast includes Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, Deborah Findlay.
What is Romeo and Juliet about?
Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they cha...
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The Beaux' Stratagem
Movie + 8 extras
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 for money. Lodged at the local inn, posing as master and servant, they encounter a teem...
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Much Ado About Nothing
Movie + 9 extras
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 Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty. But ...
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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. ...
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Twelfth Night
Movie + 9 extras
Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.
What is Twelfth Night about?
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 to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwi...
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A Tupperware of Ashes
Movie + 11 extras
An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to reconcile their life-long duty to their mother, the ramificatio...
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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...
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Till the Stars Come Down
Movie + 11 extras
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...
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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...
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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...
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Jack Absolute Flies Again
Movie + 10 extras
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 squadron at RAF Fontwell. Once back on British soil, Jack is shoc... -
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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Antony & Cleopatra
Movie + 9 extras
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, Macbeth).
What is Antony and Cleopatra about?
Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongsid...
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Othello (2022)
Movie + 10 extras
Take your seats for Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, Othello.
What is Othello about?
She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. He’s a refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds love across racial lin...