Stream The Corn is Green with a theatre membership from National Theatre at Home.

One person can make all the difference.

Miss Lily Moffat arrives in rural North Wales, determined to help young local miners out of poverty by teaching them to read and write.

Lily soon spots talent in the unrul...

Watch The Crucible play online with National Theatre at Home.

What is The Crucible about?

Speak of the devil and he appears.

A witch hunt is beginning in Salem.

Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a terrible power.

As a climate of fear spre...

Stream the National Theatre play The Deep Blue Sea online with National Theatre at Home.

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.

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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) as part of The Effect cast in this funny and intimate examination of love and ethics. Directed by Jamie Lloyd (Cyrano de Ber...

Watch The Father and the Assassin with National Theatre at Home.

Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader.

Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered Gandhi.

This gripping play traces Godse’s life over 30 years during India’s fight for indepen...

The great American novel reimagined.

Forced to travel West in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California.

Their story is one of false hopes, wrong turns and broken dreams, but also a hymn to huma...

Watch The Habit of Art with National Theatre at Home.

Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings, Adrian Scarborough and Frances de la Tour lead the cast in this multi-layered production.

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from hi...

Subscribe and watch The House of Bernarda Alba with National Theatre at Home.

What is The House of Bernarda Alba about?

Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom?

Olivier Award-wi...

Stream The Little Big Things musical online with National Theatre at Home.

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 Time...

Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father.

Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister’s sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demands justice for the pain she carries.

Amid the debris and ...

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...

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...

Watch Chekhov's play Three Sisters with National Theatre at Home.

Nigeria, 1967. Three sisters, grieving the loss of their father, long to return to their former home in Lagos as conflict encroaches on their provincial village.

Chekhov’s iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria on the brin...

Stream This House with a National Theatre at Home subscription.

It’s 1974, and Britain has a hung Parliament. The corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backstabbing as the political parties battle to change the future of a nation.

This House is a moving and funny ins...

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...

Watch the National Theatre play Trouble in Mind with National Theatre at Home.

In 1950s America, protests for racial equality erupt in the face of voter suppression.

On Broadway, Wiletta Mayer, a talented black actress, begins rehearsals for a new play about racism – written and directed by t...

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

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 sur...

Watch Ugly Lies The Bone online with National Theatre at Home.

‘Beauty is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone; beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own.’

After three tours in Afghanistan, Jess finally returns to Florida. In a small town on the Space Coast, as the final shuttle is abo...

Watch National Theatre's 50 Years on Stage with National Theatre at Home.

In 2013 the National Theatre celebrated 50 years of unforgettable theatre, with extracts of iconic plays of the last five decades. Some of the greatest names in British theatre from Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch and An...

Watch Michael Sheen in Under Milk Wood with a National Theatre at Home theatre subscription.

What is Under Milk Wood about?

The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living in terror of her guests. A father who can no longer access his memories. A son in search of redemp...

Reader, I think you know who is most quotable.

Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one… Anne.

This is not a story about well-behaved women.

This is a story ab...

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.

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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...

Watch Young Marx the play online with National Theatre at Home.

Rory Kinnear is Marx and Oliver Chris is Engels, in this comedy directed by Nicholas Hytner and reunites the creative team behind the hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors.

1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Stre...