Live Theatre

NT Live 2022: Henry V

Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war, and the psychology of power.

• Sat 25 Jun
  • 2:45PM NT Live 2022: Henry V Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war, and the psychology of power. Dendy Canberra - Cinema 5 Level 2, North Quarter, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Canberra City 2600 https://dendy.imgix.net/movies/posters/mx/posters/nt-live-2022-henry-v.jpg?auto=compress,format&w=1920&v=20220404 2022-06-25T02:45
• Sun 26 Jun
  • 12:30PM NT Live 2022: Henry V Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war, and the psychology of power. Dendy Canberra - Cinema 7 Level 2, North Quarter, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Canberra City 2600 https://dendy.imgix.net/movies/posters/mx/posters/nt-live-2022-henry-v.jpg?auto=compress,format&w=1920&v=20220404 2022-06-26T12:30
  • 2:45PM NT Live 2022: Henry V Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war, and the psychology of power. Dendy Canberra - Cinema 5 Level 2, North Quarter, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Canberra City 2600 https://dendy.imgix.net/movies/posters/mx/posters/nt-live-2022-henry-v.jpg?auto=compress,format&w=1920&v=20220404 2022-06-26T02:45

NT Live: Prima Facie

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning.

• Sat 23 Jul
  • 3:20PM NT Live: Prima Facie Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. Dendy Canberra - Cinema 6 Level 2, North Quarter, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Canberra City 2600 https://dendy.imgix.net/movies/posters/mx/posters/nt-live-prima-facie.jpg?auto=compress,format&w=1920&v=20220404 2022-07-23T03:20
• Sun 24 Jul
  • 3:20PM NT Live: Prima Facie Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. Dendy Canberra - Cinema 6 Level 2, North Quarter, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Canberra City 2600 https://dendy.imgix.net/movies/posters/mx/posters/nt-live-prima-facie.jpg?auto=compress,format&w=1920&v=20220404 2022-07-24T03:20

NT Live 2022: Straight Line Crazy

For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were.

• Sat 17 Sep
  • 12:30PM NT Live 2022: Straight Line Crazy For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were. Dendy Canberra - Cinema 6 Level 2, North Quarter, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Canberra City 2600 https://dendy.imgix.net/movies/posters/onesheet-full.jpg?auto=compress,format&w=1920&v=20220404 2022-09-17T12:30
• Sun 18 Sep
  • 12:30PM NT Live 2022: Straight Line Crazy For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were. Dendy Canberra - Cinema 6 Level 2, North Quarter, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Canberra City 2600 https://dendy.imgix.net/movies/posters/onesheet-full.jpg?auto=compress,format&w=1920&v=20220404 2022-09-18T12:30

NT Live 2022: The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage

Eighteen years after his groundbreaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe.

NT Live 2022: Leopoldstadt

Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family, and endurance.

National Theatre Live: Skylight

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy).

NT Live: A View From The Bridge

The great Arthur Miller confronts the American dream in this dark and passionate tale. In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins.

NT Live: War Horse

See Olivier Award-winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and Alex Jennings (The Lady in the Van, The Queen), in this brand new play from Simon Woods.

NT Live: Cyrano de Bergerac

James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, filmed live for cinemas from the London’s West End.

NT Live: Fleabag

Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.

NT Live: The Lehman Trilogy

On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.

NT Live: Frankenstein (Version 1)

This version of the play has Benedict Cumberbatch as Creature & Jonny Lee Miller as Frankenstein. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.

NT Live: Frankenstein (Version 2)

This version of the play has Jonny Lee Miller as Creature & Benedict Cumberbatch as Frankenstein. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.

NT Live: Present Laughter

Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching. Captured live from The Old Vic in London, Present Laughter is a giddy and surprisingly modern reflection on fame, desire and loneliness.