Watch The Grapes of Wrath, a play from the National Theatre.

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...

Watch Frankenstein, a play by National Theatre with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Frankenstein.

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty...

Watch Jane Eyre online with National Theatre at Home.

Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane Eyre is as inspiring as ever.

What is Jane Eyre about?

The production uncovers one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms. Facing obstacles, surviving poverty, injustice ...

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...

Stream Jon Klassen's I Want My Hat Back with National Theatre at Home.

Bear's hat is gone. He loves his hat. He wants it back. He asks all the animals in the forest, but no one has seen it. WAIT! He has seen it somewhere...

Wils Wilson directs Jon Klassen’s children’s picture book classic, I ...

Stream The Boy With Two Hearts online with a theatre subscription from National Theatre at Home.

Herat, Afghanistan, 2000.

When a young mother speaks out against the Taliban, she and her husband are forced to flee their home and country with their three sons. Embarking on a long and terrifyi...

Watch Frankenstein, a play by National Theatre with Jonny Lee Miller as the creature and Benedict Cumberbatch as Frankenstein.

What is Frankenstein about?

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-stru...

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...

Stream The Book of Dust, a play based on Phillip Pullman's trilogy with National Theatre at Home.

Set twelve years before his epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Phillip Pullman's fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.

Two young peo...

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,...