The National Theatre News

Hordubal comes to the National Theatre in Prague, playing now through 21 April 2024. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!

Under the buzzing lights of a psychiatric hospital in Aberdeenshire in 1897, Mina Murray recounts her encounters with the most terrifying of beasts: Dracula. A throng of patients listen with bated breath as they are transported to a world where immortality and ultimate power is possible, even for women - but with terrible consequences...

Expats Theatre will present the live stage production of Scorched (original French title Incendies) by Lebanese-Québecois playwright Wajdi Mouawad. Learn more about the production and find out how to get tickets here!

Centaur Theatre will present the first show of its 2023-24 Season, Drew Hayden Taylor's alterNatives, a collaboration with Montreal-based Indigenous theatre company Menuentakuan Productions. Learn more about the show and find out how to get tickets here!

OUR CLASS, the award-winning play by Polish writer Tadeusz Słobodzianek, will be performed for the first time in New York at Brooklyn Academy of Music. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!

Get a first look at Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge in Private Lives in the West End.

To celebrate 60 years on stage, the National Theatre will present a special free screening of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, Othello. Find out how you can stream the production for free here!

London Theatre Week: Tickets From just £15 for The Ocean at the End of the Lane. From the imagination of Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of Good Omens, Coraline and The Sandman, the National Theatre’s smash-hit production The Ocean at the End of the Lane returns to the West End this October for seven weeks only.

Internationally acclaimed touring theatre company Wise Children celebrate five years since launching in 2018, by throwing open the doors of their new home to the public for the very first time this festive season. Learn more about the new upcoming production here!

The National Theatre has announced full casting for its highly acclaimed production of Dear England, transferring to the West End this Autumn. This new smash-hit play by James Graham, directed by Rupert Goold, tells the story of the England men’s football team under Gareth Southgate. It will play at the Prince Edward Theatre from 9 October 2023 for a strictly limited 14-week run.

The Playwrights Realm has revealed its 2023-2024 cohort: a dynamic group of storytellers participating in its Writing Fellows program.

Roundabout Theatre Company will present a special Benefit Reading of Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, directed by Scott Ellis starring Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara. Learn how to purchase tickets!

VideoCabaret in association with Crow’s Theatre presents the World Premiere of (EVERYONE I LOVE HAS) A TERRIBLE FATE (BEFALL THEM) by Cliff Cardinal from October 10-29, 2023 at the Deanne Taylor Theatre. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!

As the National Theatre prepares to mark 60 years of entertaining and inspiring audiences around the world on 22 October, a birthday present of 3,600 free tickets, 60 tickets for 60 performances in October, will be available for 16–25-year-olds to book for productions on the South Bank and in the West End. Learn more about the initiative and how to get tickets here!

Musical Theatre star Zoe Birkett will host this year's UK Theatre Awards, set to take place on Sunday 8 October at London's Guildhall. Learn more about the awards here!

BAFTA and Golden Globe nominee Rupert Everett will star in John Mortimer's celebrated autobiographical play A Voyage Round My Father, which will open at Theatre Royal Bath, with performances from 28 September, before embarking on a UK tour. Learn more about the full cast here!

Dance Base has announced the appointment of Alice McGrath and Paul Fitzpatrick as the new co-Chairs of the Board of Directors. Learn more about the new co-chairs here!

Theatre Washington announced the return of Theatre Week, a three-week-long celebration of the launch of the 2023-2024 theatre season in the Washington, DC region. Learn more about the Theatre Week events here!

420PEOPLE - MAY comes to the National Theatre in Prague. Performances run 7 September - 26 November. Learn more about the performance and how to get tickets here!

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced further casting for Twelfth Night: For One Night Only. Learn more about the production and find out who is starring in it here!