National Theatre planning £125 million upgrade for its 50 year old building

The National Theatre on the Southbank is about to embark on a major upgrade of the building, which is nearly 50 years old and starting to show it.

National Theatre photography exhibition inside the National Theatre

The iconic, brutalist architecture of the National Theatre building on London’s South Bank has been documented by photographer Amelia Lancaster for over 20 years.

The Linbury Prize – an exhibition of theatre stage design

Inside the National Theatre at the moment is a large exhibition about the art of designing stage sets for theatre plays, showing off ideas from award-winning designers.

Free theatre tickets for 18-25 year olds

To mark the 60th anniversary of the National Theatre, they will be giving away 3,600 tickets for free to people aged 16-25.

Ten new plays for £5 each at the National Theatre’s Connections Festival

This summer, the National Theatre is celebrating youth theatre as ten youth theatre companies and school groups from across the UK will stage new plays in the Dorfman Theatre as part of its 2023 Connections Festival.

Portraits from Backstage – an exhibition at the National Theatre

The people who work behind the scenes to make a theatre production shine are rarely seen, but there's currently an exhibition at the National Theatre that draws them out into the limelight.

How to get National Theatre tickets for £10

On Friday's the National Theatre has a Friday Rush where they offer tickets for unsold seats to shows the following week for just £10 per person.

National Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe reopening

Two grand theatres on the Thames riverside will be reopening, with tickets starting from just £5 per person.

Watch National Theatre plays online

If you are missing the theatre, there's an online service from the National offering a large range of their performances.

The National Threatre is offering some online Dick

Dick Whittington that is! And Dick Whittington is coming to a computer screen near you.

Tickets Alert: Panto in the National

In an unusual year, and unusual occurrence - the National Theatre is having a panto show this Christmas.

The first ever Pantomine comes to The National Theatre

It's a strange year and getting stranger, as that bastion of the Southbank arts complex, The National Theatre is to stage its first ever Pantomine this winter.

An exhibition of costumes at the National Theatre

From rags to glamorous gowns, the theatre is a wonderment of fantasy that is often brought to life as much by the costumes, as the acting and stage sets. The costumes are also one of the more dynamic aspects of…

Concrete Reality – Denys Lasdun and the National Theatre

If you head to the top floor of the National Theatre at the Southbank, then behind two anonymous wooden doors, is a corridor filled with concrete heaven -- an exhibition about how the National Theatre was born out of concrete.

There is a Big Red Shed on the SouthBank

If you have passed by the Southbank recently or crossed over Waterloo Bridge in a red bus, you might have struggled to avoid seeing a big red shed that has appeared next to the National Theatre.