A Midsummer Night's Dream

2019

English

8.4

♡ 11

Nicholas Hytner Director

Hammed Animashaun as Bottom

Kit Young as Lysander

Oliver Chris as Oberon / Theseus

Gwendoline Christie as Titania / Hippolyta

A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities and transformations… with hilarious, but dark consequences.

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

2018

English

8.0

♡ 10

96%

Nicholas Hytner Director

Ben Whishaw as Brutus

Adjoa Andoh as Casca

Fred Fergus as Lucius / Cinna The Poet

Kit Young as Octavius

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.

The Object of My Affection

1998

English

6.0

♡ 26

53%

Nicholas Hytner Director

Doug Wert as Father

Steve Zahn as Frank Hanson

Paul Rudd as George Hanson

Jennifer Aniston as Nina Borowski

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.

Center Stage

2000

English

6.7

♡ 11

42%

Nicholas Hytner Director

Marcia Jean Kurtz as Emily's Mother

Zoe Saldana as Eva

Peter Gallagher as Jonathan

Debra Monk as Nancy

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.

The History Boys

2006

English

6.8

♡ 8

66%

Nicholas Hytner Director

Dominic Cooper as Dakin

Stephen Campbell Moore as Irwin

Frances de la Tour as Mrs. Lintott

Clive Merrison as The Headmaster

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

The Madness of King George

1994

English

7.2

♡ 30

93%

80%

Action

based on a true story

based on play or musical

husband wife relationship

parliament

Nicholas Hytner Director

Roger Hammond as Baker

Jeremy Child as Black Rod

Amanda Donohoe as Lady Pembroke

Helen Mirren as Queen Charlotte

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.

The Lady in the Van

2015

English

6.7

♡ 27

89%

64%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Nicholas Hytner Director

Stephen Campbell Moore as Doctor at Old Peoples Home

Clive Merrison as Man in Confessional

Maggie Smith as Miss Shepherd

June Watson as Woman in Day Centre

The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.