The Royal National Theatre ended their free streaming to home viewers on Thursday, July 23, 2020, and has resumed streaming their productions to movie theatres around the world.
The London Royal National Theatre is home to great actors like Laurence Olivier in the 1960s and Ralph Fiennes today. Since 2009 its National Theatre Live program has been streaming plays to movie theaters around the world. With theaters and cinemas closed during the Coronavirus pandemic, the National Theatre halted their cinema streaming and began offering select plays for free to home viewers on Youtube.
The final home-streamed play was Amadeus on July 23. Now, the National Theatre is scheduling streamed performance to movie theatres. You can find the schedule at:
National Theatre Cinema Tickets
You can still find clips from many performances at the National Theatre Youtube Channel. Below are highlights from the 16 productions that were streamed to home viewers.
Cinema Streaming
Productions soon to come to cinemas include Fleabag, written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Frankenstein, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and and Jonny Lee Miller. You can get the schedule for a theatre near you by clicking on any of the plays at: National Theatre Cinema Tickets
Here is the trailer for Frankenstein.
https://youtu.be/tx356SBUECE
About Royal National Theatre (from Wikipedia)
The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT), is one of the United Kingdom’s three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. Internationally, it is known as the National Theatre of Great Britain.
From its foundation in 1963 until 1976, the company was based at The Old Vic theatre in Waterloo. The current building is located next to the Thames in the South Bank area of central London. In addition to performances at the National Theatre building, the National Theatre tours productions at theatres across the United Kingdom.
Permission to add the “Royal” prefix to the name of the theatre was given in 1988, but the full title is rarely used. The theatre presents a varied programme, including Shakespeare, other international classic drama, and new plays by contemporary playwrights. Each auditorium in the theatre can run up to three shows in repertoire, thus further widening the number of plays which can be put on during any one season.
In June 2009, the theatre began National Theatre Live (NT Live), a programme of simulcasts of live productions to cinemas, first in the United Kingdom and then internationally. The programme began with a production of Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren, which was screened live in 70 cinemas across the UK. NT Live productions have since been broadcast to over 2,500 venues in 60 countries around the world.