Here We Are continues at the National Theatre (Lyttelton) until 28 June 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Stephen Sondheim’s final staged work – a musicalisation of two movies by Spanish-Mexican auteur Luis Buñuel – has opened at the 890-seat Lyttelton in the National Theatre.
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Nicholas Hytner wins the 2018 Theatre Book Prize for Balancing Acts
Nicholas Hytner has won the 2018 Theatre Book Prize from the Society for Theatre Research for Balancing Acts (Jonathan Cape) about his 12 years as director of the National Theatre. Accepting the prize, he quipped as he thanked all the people who helped to make it possible: “I wish I could say I enjoyed writing this […]
The Threepenny Opera – Olivier Theatre
The Threepenny Opera at the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre, London is booking until 1 October. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ There must be something in the atmosphere that has spurred artistic directors to stage adaptations of John Gay’s 18th century satirical The Beggar’s Opera. As the Park Theatre’s The Buskers […]
Rory Kinnear leads cast in National’s Threepenny Opera
Screen and stage star Rory Kinnear will head the cast of the National Theatre’s major new production of The Threepenny Opera. Kinnear, whose previous appearances at the National include his Olivier award-winning performance as Iago in Othello, will take on the central role of Macheath in Simon Stephens’ new adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht and […]
