National Theatre Live
For over 15 years, National Theatre Live has given audiences the best seat in the house.
National Theatre Live films unmissable theatre live from Britain’s most exciting stages and screens it in thousands of cinemas around the globe, like ours! Back by popular demand, our 2026 Fall season of National Theatre Live has begun.
Series Community Partners: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Renaissance Theaterworks, and Skylight Music Theatre.
The Films
National Theatre Live: The Audience
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Drama
For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace,…
For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
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Drama
One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe Heller, it comes at a price…
One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe Heller, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action. Will peacetime bring peace of mind, or will he be confronted by the consequence of his actions?
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
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Drama
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his…
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene...
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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Drama
A new staging of Christopher Hampton's celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich,…
A new staging of Christopher Hampton's celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path. Filmed live at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.
National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope
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Comedy
Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the hollow contemporary mantras of kindness and respect. But the bolder she becomes in speaking…
Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the hollow contemporary mantras of kindness and respect. But the bolder she becomes in speaking out, the more colleagues avoid her, and the more her personal relationships begin to fracture. As she challenges fashionable ideas and lends her voice to causes others are afraid to touch, she faces intense criticism and backlash. Alice will soon learn the price she must pay as an artist and as a woman for daring to speak her mind. Award-winner Sandra Oh is the Misanthrope in Martin Crimp's cutting new version of Molière's dark comedy, directed by National Theatre Director Indhu Rubasingham.
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