National Theatre
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Theatre blog The National Theatre's new season is a staggering dereliction of duty
Michael BillingtonThe NT usually manages a balance between revivals and new work. Now, classic plays are disappearing from its stages – and from regional reps too -
Carly Wijs’s 2016 Edinburgh fringe play tells the story of the 2004 Russian school siege with clear-eyed audacity
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Breaking Bad actor to make UK stage debut in media satire, as NT also announces productions of Pinocchio and Macbeth
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A remarkable look at the Beslan school tragedy and a homage by Wayne McGregor to Virginia Woolf. Plus: The Glass Menagerie, Letters To Windsor House, Love, Travesties, Sampled and Cinderella
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Alexander Zeldin’s devised piece depicts the endurance and needless suffering of two families living in temporary accommodation
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Ruth Wilson superbly conveys the desolation of Ibsen’s ahead-of-her-time aesthete in Ivo van Hove’s invigorating modern-dress version
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Phyllida Lloyd’s storming all-female Shakespeare trilogy is saluted by Lyn Gardner who, in no set order, chooses other essential productions of the year
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Actor whose six-decade career ranged from the National Theatre to Casualty and Downton Abbey
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Adam Gillen’s Mozart and Lucian Msamati’s Salieri share the honours as Peter Shaffer’s 1979 hit returns to the National
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Director who was a ‘cornerstone’ of the National Theatre for a quarter of a century
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Musicians are thrust centre stage to epic effect in Michael Longhurst’s revival, and Lucian Msamati is excellent as the composer locked in battle with the divine
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Howard Davies, who has died aged 71, was one of the great post war theatre directors, teasing new messages from old plays and drawing career-defining performances from Alan Rickman, Helen Mirren and more
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Producer Judith Dimant’s personal experience and director Bryony Kimmings’s radical ideas have combined to moving effect in an original new show
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Will Maxine Peake sizzle as Streetcar’s southern belle? Can Glenda Jackson crack King Lear? And will Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart beat their Beckett?
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Eighteen months into his tenure, the National Theatre’s artistic head, a one-time painter and decorator, talks diversity, criticism and making a drama out of Brexit
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In Chekhov’s early plays you can chart the birth of 20th-century theatre. As a new season opens at the National Theatre, director Jonathan Kent explores the evolution of a genius
Rufus Norris: 'We are living in an age of extreme selfishness'