REVIEW: HAMLET (National Theatre) ★★★★
Hiran Abeysekera returns to the National Theatre following an Olivier Award Winning performance in Life Of Pi. Shakespeare is not my area of speciality when it comes to theatre – he didn’t write many musicals. I only remember studying Romeo and Juliet at school and I wasn’t enthralled to delve deeper into the works of […]
REVIEW: The Land Of The Living at the National Theatre ★★★★★
The Land of the Living a new play by David Lan at the National Theatre asks ‘was what I did “wrong”?’ Set in Germany, 1945, thousands of children, stolen by the Nazis from Eastern Europe during WWII are under the care of UN relief worker Ruth, working to try to reunite them with their families. […]
NYE at the National Theatre
Returning to the National Theatre‘s Olivier theatre from July 2025 is Nye, Tim Price’s (Teh Internet is Serious Business) epic Welsh fantasia charting the life of Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan and his battle to create the NHS. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred […]
Dear England at the National Theatre
The National Theatre today announces further casting for its highly anticipated return of James Graham’s smash-hit production of Dear England as rehearsals begin on the South Bank. The Olivier Award-winning play will be staged at the Olivier theatre from 10 March to 24 May 2025, followed by a 4-week run at the Lowry in Salford from 29 May to […]
Stephen Sondheim’s HERE WE ARE at the National Theatre
Here We Are at the National Theatre is now closed. After receiving its world premiere in New York in 2023, Here We Are, the final musical by the legendary Stephen Sondheim with a book by Tony Award-nominee David Ives will have its UK premiere in a new production at the National Theatre from 23 April […]
London Road at the National Theatre 2025
The National Theatre welcomed the return of the innovative musical London Road, directed by Rufus Norris from 5 – 21 June 2025. This show is now closed. What’s the show about? In autumn 2006, the everyday life of the Suffolk town of Ipswich is shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. […]