Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
★ 7.7 · 2015 · 210m · Drama
A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.
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2014 · ★ 8.8
Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. War Horse received its world premiere on October 9, 2007 at the National Theatre in London, UK where it played for two seasons before opening at the New London Theatre in London, UK in March 2009, and was later made into a 2011 movie. Since then, the stage play has been seen in over 100 cities in 15 countries, including productions on Broadway, in Toronto, Berlin, and Australia, with touring productions in the UK and Ireland, North America, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2010 · ★ 7.8
A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).
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Death of a Salesman
2000 · ★ 8.3
Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.
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National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2017 · ★ 8.5
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National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
2017 · ★ 8.7
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National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
2017 · ★ 6.3
Against the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage. As the young double act stumble their way in and out of the action of Shakespeare’s iconic drama, they become increasingly out of their depth as their version of the story unfolds.
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National Theatre Live: Obsession
2017 · ★ 6.6
Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly attracted to each other, Gino and Hanna begin a fiery affair and plot to murder her husband. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.
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National Theatre Live: Salomé
2017 · ★ 9
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National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
2017 · ★ 8.1
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
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National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
2017 · ★ 8.1
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott.
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National Theatre Live: Yerma
2017 · ★ 8.8
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2017 · ★ 7.4
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