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...

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 Everyman with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

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 clos...

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...

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...

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...

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 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....

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...

Watch Chewing Gum Dreams with National Theatre at Home.

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 Trac...

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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...

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...

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 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.

Play...

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, ...

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 William Shakespeare's Henry V with National Theatre at Home.

Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power.

Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his c...

Watch Ian Mckellen On Stage online with National Theatre at Home.

With stories and anecdotes from his illustrious career on stage and screen, McKellen performs extracts from his most iconic performances, including Shakespeare's King Lear and Tolkien's Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.

Directed ...

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.

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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...

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...

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...

Have a big night in this weekend. Create the perfect home made cocktail inspired by All About Eve. Read the recipe here

Gillian Anderson (A Streetcar Name Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia!) lead in All About Eve.

Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always...

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...