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The best of British Theatre on a cinema screen near you.

When watching a National Theatre Live, you’ll always be at the heart of the action, watching the drama unfold on the big screen.

State-of-the-art filming techniques are tailored to every play, bringing you each performance as it happens, in all its glory. From close-ups that capture tiny flickers of emotion, to sweeping wide shots.

This your ticket to sold-out award-winning plays.

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NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

3h 18m | 15

Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas

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NT Live: Inter Alia

2h 0m | CTBA

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving

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National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren’s Profession

2h 0m | CTBA

5-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother & daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic. Vivie Warren is a woman ahead

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National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step

1h 40m | CTBA

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland

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National Theatre Live: Hamlet

3h 0m | CTBA

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

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