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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner, in Max Webster’s joyful and flamboyant production of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.
Until 25 January 2025
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Lyttelton Theatre - South Bank
Ballet Shoes
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Ballet Shoes

The beloved best-selling book is spectacularly reinvented for the stage in this new adaptation by Kendall Feaver.
From 23 November
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Olivier Theatre - South Bank
Dear England
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Dear England

James Graham’s Olivier-Award winning smash-hit returns to the National Theatre, directed by Rupert Goold.
10 March — 24 May 2025
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Olivier Theatre - South Bank
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Prima Facie is back in cinemas now.

Catch Jodie Comer‘s Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller‘s gripping one-woman play.

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Celebrating five years of National Theatre Collection in schools

The best of British Theatre is available to stream for schools, universities, and the wider education sector. Free for all UK state schools and FE colleges.

National Theatre Collection
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The Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre

The landmark Tony Award®-winning production is now playing in the West End, for a strictly limited encore season.

Vanya is now streaming on National Theatre at Home

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.

Watch on National Theatre at Home

Christmas at Lasdun

Join us this festive season for delicious seasonal dining in our modernist restaurant on the South Bank.

Lasdun Restaurant
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