Upcoming Events
Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
09/12/2021
The Royal Opera House launches its new international Cinema Season after 16 months of closure, with Peter Wright’s spectacular production of The Nutcracker. A festive favourite for the whole family, it was created for The Royal Ballet in 1984, and has delighted audiences ever since.
Royal Opera: Tosca
15/12/2021
Live stream from the Royal Opera House of Puccini’s Tosca.
Sung in Italian with English surtitles.
Into the romantic world of an idealistic painter, Cavaradossi, and his sensuous lover Tosca comes the malevolence of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police, with fatal results. Jonathan Kent’s taut and intense production with Paul Brown’s historically charged designs wonderfully evokes the dangerous atmosphere of Rome in 1800, where love and evil come – thrillingly – face to face.
Bill Murray's New Worlds
02/02/2022
The final show of Bill Murray’s New Worlds tour was filmed at the Acropolis in Athens. This quirky performance of prose, song, dance and exquisite music was described by the Guardian as “curious and uniquely pointless”. A must for Bill Murray’s many fans.
NT Live: Leopoldstadt
10/02/2022
Filmed in front of a live audience at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London, Tom Stoppard’s latest and possibly last play, directed by Patrick Marber.
Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world.
We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.
The Royal Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
14/02/2022
Romeo and Juliet has become a classic of the ballet repertory since its creation by Royal Ballet Director Kenneth MacMillan and its premiere in 1965. In this special screening on Valentine’s Day,the doomed lovers attempt to find their way through the colour and action of Renaissance Verona, where a busy market all too quickly bursts into sword fighting and a family feud leads to tragedy for both the Montagues and the Capulets.
Recorded from a live performance on Feb 3 2022.
There will be 2 intervals.
NT Live: The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage
17/02/2022
Live broadcast from The Bridge Theatre, London.
The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, adapted by Bryony Lavery, directed by Nicholas Hytner.
Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.
Two young people and their daemons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua and in that child, lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation for some, the source of infinite corruption for others.
Eighteen years after his groundbreaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe.
