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September 2024

  • ‘Step into your fears is my mantra’ … Norris outside the National Theatre in London.

    ‘You become addicted to pressure’: Rufus Norris on success, stress and the National Theatre’s survival

    He has triumphed over controversies, the ‘devastation’ of Covid and 100-hour weeks. As Norris leaves the biggest job in British theatre, he reveals his final season – and his plans to take up carpentry and design kayaks

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

  • A lab, a haven … Afolabi Alli, Matthew Romain and Harry Treadaway rehearsing for The Grapes of Wrath.

    ‘It’s the talent pipeline’: inside the National Theatre’s hit-making hothouse

March 2024

  • NYE by Price, , a new play by Tim Price, Director - Rufus Norris, Set Designer - Vicki Mortimer, Costume Designer - Kinnetia Isidore, Lighting Designer - Paule Constable, Co-Choreographer -Steven Hoggett, Jess Williams, The National Theatre, London, Credit: Johan Persson

    Nye review – Michael Sheen looks back at the difficult birth of the NHS

    Sheen stars as Aneurin Bevan in Tim Price’s drama, unfolding in flashbacks from a hospital bed

October 2023

  • Arifa Akbar

    After 60 years, when will the biggest job in UK theatre go to a woman? Why not now?

    Arifa Akbar
  • Michael Billington

    As it turns 60, the National Theatre must balance past and present

    Michael Billington

June 2023

  • Contenders … left to right, Indhu Rubasingham, Rupert Goold and Lynette Lindon.

    Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?

  • Michael Billington

    Rufus Norris has made the National Theatre more diverse – on both sides of the curtain

    Michael Billington
  • A sculpture of Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, overlooks the town clock in his hometown of Tredegar in south Wales.

    Play about NHS creator Nye Bevan is among 12 new National Theatre plays

  • Rufus Norris in August 2020.

    Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre leader in spring 2025

December 2022

  • Emma Corrin (Orlando), Millicent Wong (Sasha). photo by Marc Brenner Orlando, Garrick Theatre, London 26 Nov 2022 - 25 Feb 2023

    The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

  • Lisa Lambe as the Fairy and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt as Queenie in Hex at the National Theatre, London.

    Hex review – musical Sleeping Beauty casts a darkly dazzling spell

November 2022

  • Victoria Hamilton-Barritt: ‘I made that up, you wally!’

    ‘We put Disney in the bin’: Victoria Hamilton-Barritt on being theatre’s top Christmas villain

    She starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights while eight months pregnant and played Cinderella’s stepmother in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s abruptly closed musical. Now Hamilton-Barritt has bounced back as a tormented ogress in Hex

June 2022

  • The National Theatre, London

    How do you make a lavish spectacle sustainable? Theatre’s radical green agenda

    A meeting of minds at the National Theatre showed ways to stage drama along environmentally sound lines. But is everyone on board?

May 2022

  • Erin Doherty and Brendan Cowell are set to star in the National’s new production of The Crucible.

    National Theatre to stage The Crucible with Erin Doherty and Brendan Cowell

    Revival of Arthur Miller’s allegory is part of a new season featuring The Boy With Two Hearts and a 40-week tour of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

March 2022

  • Leonie Elliott as Hortense in Small Island by Andrea Levy at the Olivier theatre.

    Small Island review – enthralling Windrush drama makes stylish return

    A superb new cast show this story of love, war and racial prejudice has earned its place in the National Theatre pantheon

January 2022

  • ‘A state of constant adaptation’ … Michael Elcock as Bert, Rosalie Craig as Fairy, Kat Ronney as Rose and Tamsin Carroll as Queenie in Hex at the National Theatre.

    Culture in peril
    Hex: National Theatre cancels opening night of Covid-cursed musical

    ‘Blighted’ by pandemic, Rufus Norris’s festive production will end current run without a press night but return in November

August 2021

  • Cush Jumbo plays Hamlet, Mae Martin and Simon Amstell.

    Autumn arts preview 2021
    Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021

    Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage

June 2021

  • People pass signs outside the theatre

    National Theatre commits to more plays from outside London

    Reopening plans include a musical based on Sleeping Beauty and a play telling the story of Gandhi’s killer

March 2021

  • Back at the National … Michael Sheen.

    Michael Sheen to star in Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre

    Reconfigured Olivier theatre will show Dylan Thomas classic in June reopening with Jack Thorne play set for Dorfman stage
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