| Venue name: | National Theatre | Contact: |
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South Bank London SE1 9PX |
| Opening hours: | 9.30am-11pm Mon-Sat (12noon-6pm Sun when there is a performance in the building) |
| Transport: | Tube: Waterloo |
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Things to doNational Theatre Backstage Tours
Subservience of form to function is bracingly absolute in Sir Denys Lasdun's building, which was completed in 1976. The Lyttleton sits at the apex of an L-shape, with massive storage areas behind and to one side. This facilitates the repertory system...
Walks and tours Until Thursday October 19 2017 -
TheatreAngels in America
Tony Kushner's landmark 'Angels in America' is a mad, eight-hour quasi-religious 'gay fantasia on national themes' that was written in response to – amongst many other things – the AIDS epidemic that was still raging upon its UK premiere at the National...
Drama Until Saturday August 19 2017 -
TheatreCommon
DC Moore's new play is a scurrilous story of the battle for England's lost common land. The consistently great Anne-Marie Duff plays Mary, a thief who gets swept up in a mission to save her former home as the industrial revolution swallows villages whole. The...
Drama Tuesday May 30 2017 - Saturday August 5 2017 -
TheatreUgly Lies the Bone
Presumably a pet project of its director, Tricycle Theatre boss Indhu Rubasingham, 'Ugly Lies the Bone' by Lindsey Ferrentino is a peculiar, undernourished US drama that feels like it would be unlikely to have been flattered by the NT’s vast resources...
Drama Tuesday May 30 2017 - Tuesday June 6 2017 -
TheatreBarber Shop Chronicles
As this new play shows, an African barber's shop can be a pretty amazing place: a soapbox, a confessional, a newsroom and a pulpit rolled into one. Poet and playwright Inua Ellam's drama explores men's stories in barber shops from London to Accra. Bijan...
Drama Tuesday May 30 2017 - Saturday July 8 2017 -
TheatreSalomé
Yaël Farber’s ‘Salomé’ is a genuinely Biblical spectacle. Even if you hate it, there will be moments when designer Susan Hilferty and her team will make your jaw plummet, as cascades of sand and diaphanous walls of cloth descend without warning from the...
Drama Friday June 9 2017 - Saturday July 15 2017 -
TheatreQueer Theatre
See five seldom-staged 21st century queer theatre classics at the National Theatre's series of rehearsed readings this July. As you might expect, the line-up features some vintage gay plays: Peter Gill directs his own 1999 'Certain Young Men', a look...
Drama Thursday July 6 2017 - Monday July 10 2017 -
TheatreMosquitoes
After her sprawling, intense hit 'Chimerica', Lucy Kirkwood's back at the NT with a new play about sisterhood and tragedy, directed by NT boss Rufus Norris. A scientist is working on the Large Hadron Collider, in search of the Higgs Boson particle. Then...
Drama Tuesday July 18 2017 - Thursday September 28 2017 -
Things to doRiver Stage
The National Theatre's River Stage returns to the South Bank for Summer 2017, with another bustling line-up of free live music, dance, performance, workshops and family fun. Weekend evenings will see a varied programme of entertainment take place in front...
Festivals Friday July 28 2017 - Sunday August 27 2017 Free -
TheatreThe Majority
Fingers on the buzzer: Rob Drummond's new show invites the audience to decide its path by pressing buttons at their seats. He'll use their input to navigate some of the most momentous referendums of the past few years, in a show about democracy that'll...
Interactive Friday August 11 2017 - Monday August 28 2017
Average User Rating
4.7 / 5
Rating Breakdown
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After visiting the concrete central of National Theatre, we thought we would visit the Green Room cafe for dinner. It's a cool all glass building looking out onto Southbank market. It has a European menu and I would say the food is average. We ordered wings for starters and they were quite spicy. We asked for something to cool the spice and the waitress never returned till we had almost finished to tell us they didn't have anything. For mains we ordered a lamb hotdog and the cod dish. The cod dish was really fresh as it was served with garden peas and potatoes. The hot dog was not pleasant, the lamb sausage and bun were both very dry.
The service was also quite slow. We asked for water and would receive one at a time, always having to wait for one to be given to us. We let the venue know about this but they said some of the waitresses were still training so we can't really complain.
Perhaps not the friendlist looking place, but step through the doors and it is amazing the vast amountil at the NT offers. Not only has it 3 theatre spaces, offering a variety of cutting edge productions from both produced at the National as well as coming from around the country. It also has no fewer than 4 doffered places to eat including upmarket House restaurant, Terrace and one of the newestate additions, The Green Room which is out the back of the theatre. The NT puts on events outside overlooking the Thames during the summer, has an amazing bookshop and ample public seating with free WiFi. Got to be seen to be believed.
The national theatre puts on epically large productions with beautiful set designs that you can't help be impressed by. I love that they're so openly encouraging to get people from all works of life into theatre thought NT live and their young person discounts. However, my teeny tiny qualm would be that the productions can feel slightly too big - you sometimes loose the beautiful intimacy that you can find in my very favourite theatre (the Old Vic). That being said - a ticket purchase here will never be too far wrong!
An amazing contemporary venue that allows you get up close to stars big and small in a tremendously creative space.
We should all be proud of the Nash - concrete jungle it may be from the outside, step through the doors and you'll find new and classic plays at decent prices, a fab bookshop and some brilliant bars and eateries. A jewel in London's culture scene.
The National is one of the best places to see a play and the way it stages a production is awesome irrespective of the genre. The set designs are innovative, exciting and clever. They have a real variety of productions and consistently change things up. The cafe is also a good place to grab a drink if you’re ever on the Southbank.
It's a special place The National,I have been there countless times and never been disappointed by any show I have seen there. Putting on fine theatre and innovative works,it's a place to visit time and time again.
It also has some great places to eat and drink. Most recently I booked a table at Understudy bar before seeing a play and it was great. serving bite size mains,you can have a selection of hot dishes,ideal for a pre-theatre munch and a glass of prosecco.
It always has good ticket offers so you can get tickets at all prices,making it accessible to all.
A very good gift/book shop too : )
Might be the most special venue in the entire world for me. You could spend the entire day here and fell at home & entertainted. Contantly changing yet stays the most welcoming. It may look like a fortress from the outside but once you step in you just don't wanna leave. Magic space! Happy 52th birthday, btw )
A wonderful space for the public as well as a place to see some fantastic theatre, often at extremely reasonable prices. Really good coffee too!
Nothing like the National! Best night out in London and seeing the inner workings of his great theater is a delight! Don miss it!!
The National never fail in excelling with putting on some first class pieces of theatre. The Travelex season makes it even sweeter, as well as the building being a great example of brutalist architecture, and located in one of my favourite parts of London.
Outstanding. If you haven't been to watch something here yet, you haven't experienced true London. This is how theatre should be done.
