🎭 On Stage on the South Bank
💻 Online with National Theatre at Home
🍿 In Cinemas with National Theatre Live
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Why not archive your work? 🗂️
With the National Archives, APAC, National Lottery Heritage Fund, and more, our Archive Team has created a guide.
📸 Catherine Ashmore, James Bellorini, Richard H Smith
More info 👇
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/about-us/research/digital-archive-project-guidance/
Have you heard? We're on sale!
Tickets are now available for our remaining 2026 shows:
- Electra/Persona
- Cloud 9
- Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists *SOLD OUT*
- Some Woman
- The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Find out more here 👇
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/whats-on/
Coming to a small screen near you 💻
- The Audience is now streaming (in UK only).
- Hamlet will be available from 18 June.
- Inter Alia will be available in the UK from 7 July.
Find out more about National Theatre at Home 👇
https://www.ntathome.com/browse
Connections tickets are now available 🎉
Our annual nationwide youth theatre festival is happening at the Lowry in Salford from 25–28 June.
Come support the eight groups representing this year's 5000 young participants.
Find out more👇
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/whats-on/connections-2026/
A perfect morning ☀️
We were delighted to host a group of community choirs who performed songs from War Horse to celebrate its return to our Olivier Theatre.
Author Sir Michael Morpurgo and life-sized horse puppet Joey joined in!
More info👇
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/war-horse/
New Views hits the Olivier this July ✍️
Our student playwriting programme culminates in a festival of workshops, activities, and a selection of rehearsed readings of participants' plays.
Find out more and book your free ticket👇
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/whats-on/new-views-festival-2026/
Sir Ian McKellen unveiled an English Heritage Blue Plaque for Sir Laurence Olivier 💫
From Olivier's childhood home to his artistic home, our Director and Co-Chief Executive Indhu Rubasingham joined in the celebrations of our founder, one of the greatest actors of the 20th century.
📸 David Parry
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The New Views Festival 2026 is free to attend, featuring readings of plays written by 14-19 year-olds participants from across the UK.
Britain's biggest youth theatre festival, Connections 2026, presents eight exciting new plays by leading writers performed by schools and youth theatre groups from across the UK, at Lowry, Salford.
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
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