The Latest Breaking News from the National Theatre

The National Theatre’s earlier start times are a great result for audiences

A pilot scheme means some performances will now begin at 6.30pm. That means more time for eating, travelling and – most importantly – discussing the show

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2023

Playwright Alexander Zeldin: ‘Lots of people can make a living being an artist in France. In the UK, that’s not the case’

The Paris-based British playwright, back in the UK with The Confessions, inspired by conversations with his mother, talks about the secrets she revealed

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2023

London’s Kiln theatre appoints Amit Sharma as artistic director

Sharma, who directed the theatre’s acclaimed production Retrograde, will take over from Indhu Rubasingham in December

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2023

OPINION - Evening Standard Theatre Podcast: Paul Bazely interview, reviews of Red Pitch and God of Carnage

‘It’s the strange thing when you’re playing an icon... I wanted to find out what it was like to be him as a man’

Evening Standard · Sep 17, 2023

How 2023 became the year of the wine bar

A new wave of wine bars is taking the capital’s coolest postcodes by storm and slaking the thirst of younger drinkers. Ben McCormack takes a sip

Evening Standard · Sep 14, 2023

Exit, pursued by stress: bosses of smaller UK theatres quit in droves

String of vacancies at regional arts venues grows as funding and staffing crisis worsens

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2023

Grenfell: in the words of survivors – new play is an angry demand for accountability

The National Theatre’s new play, Grenfell: in the words of survivors, written by Gillian Slovo and directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Anthony Simpson-Pike, aims to offer a voice to survivors of the fire.

The Conversation · Jul 26, 2023

Leonard Tucker obituary

Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2023

Writer of Grenfell play says people must be jailed for what happened

Gillian Slovo’s play at National Theatre uses words of survivors of 2017 fire at west London tower block

The Guardian - UK · Jul 19, 2023

Pearl Mackie: ‘I think this might be the most important job I ever do’

The ‘Doctor Who’ star talks to Nicole Vassell about playing the chair of the Grenfell survivors’ collective, the impact of queer roles and her quarter-life breakdown

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2023