Watch Ian McKellen on stage in Shakespeare's play King Lear with National Theatre at Home.

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 fat...

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 London Tide, a play from National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.

A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future.

Based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, this roma...

Watch LOVE with National Theatre at Home.

In the run up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped temporary accommodation.

A middle-aged man and his elderly mum, a young family with a baby on the way, a newly arrived woman from Sudan. Strangers. Forced together. No space is persona...

Macbeth is coming.

What is Macbeth about?
A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception, and superstition. Once you cross the line, you can never turn back.

Watch Shakespeare's play Macbeth online with ...

Watch 'Master Harold'...and the boys with a National Theatre at Home theatre subscription.

St George's Park Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, 1950. On a long rainy afternoon, employees Sam and Willie practise their steps for the finals of the ballroom dancing championship.

Hally arrives from school ...

Stream Medea the play with National Theatre at Home.

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...

Watch National Theatre's play Mosquitoes, with National Theatre at Home.

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...

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...

Stream Harold Pinter's play No Man's Land with National Theatre at Home.

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 i...

From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister.

Confronted with death, Nye’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back t...

Watch Oliver Twist the play with a subscription from National Theatre at Home.

What is Oliver Twist about?

Born into poverty and misfortune, Oliver Twist escapes the workhouse for a life of adventure where he joins Artful Dodger, Fagin and their mischievous gang of pick pockets. But the enjoym...

Watch Othello online with National Theatre at Home.

What is Othello about?

Furious about being overlooked for promotion, Iago plots to take revenge against his General, Othello.

In this acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s timeless tale of envy and brutal revenge, Adrian Lester plays Othell...

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...

Watch Our Generation the play with National Theatre at Home.

Created from five years of interviews with 12 young people from across the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their journey into adulthood.

Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this funny and moving play is for anyo...

Watch Paradise with National Theatre at Home.

The all-female company, with Lesley Sharp as Philoctetes: once a celebrated wartime hero, now a wounded outcast on a desolate island.

When a young soldier appears, his hope of escape comes with suspicion. And as an old enemy also emerges, he is f...

Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing. When intoxication feels like the only wa...

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,...

Stream Phaedra, a play by National Theatre with National Theatre at Home.

After years of fierce focus on her political career, a politician turns her attention to her personal life. The reappearance of a figure from her past shakes the foundations of her house and the beliefs that have underpin...

Stream Phedre with National Theatre at Home.

Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson, and believing her absent husband is dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare.

Helen Mirren plays the title role in this acclaimed production of the c...

As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwin...

Stream Rockets and Blue Lights with National Theatre at Home.

On the set of a new film about Victorian artist JMW Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an unresolved history. Meanwhile, in 1840 Londoners Lucy and Thomas try to come to terms with the meaning of freedom.

Moving between Lond...

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...

Stream Salomé with National Theatre at Home.

What is Salomé about?

An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl ...