To live up to its name and be truly national, the National is committed to taking its work beyond its South Bank home - all over the UK and, as a representative of British Theatre, throughout the world.
For Education Tours, see Shakespeare Unplugged and Mobile Tours in Education
Recent Touring history
The National on Tour
The Duchess of Malfi
18-22 March, The Lowry, Salford
25-29 March, Malvern Theatres
1-5 April, King's Theatre, Edinburgh
She Stoops to Conquer & A Laughing Matter
Out of Joint and the National Theatre's co-productions of She Stoops to Conquer and A Laughing Matter tour the UK extensively, in addition to performances at the Lyttelton. The dates and venues are as follows: unless indicated otherwise, both productions play in rep at all venues.
12-23 November, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
21-25 January, Northcott Theatre, Exeter
28 January-1 February, Cambridge Arts Theatre
1-5 April, Liverpool Playhouse
8-12 April, Theatre Royal, Bath
15-19 April, Theatre Royal, Northampton
Ambassador Theatre Group present the National Theatre's production of
Noises Off on tour in 2003:
17-22 February at the Oxford Playhouse
01865 305305 www.oxfordplayhouse.co.uk
24 February-1 March at the Newcastle Theatre Royal
0870 9055060 www.theatre-royal-newcastle.co.uk
3-8 March to be confirmed
10-15 March at the RSC Stratford
01789 403403 www.rsc.org.uk
17-22 March at the Darlington Civic Theatre
01325 486555 www.darlington-arts.co.uk
24-29 March at the Brighton Theatre Royal
01273 328488 www.theambassadors.com/brighton
31 March-5 April at the Stoke Regents Theatre
01782 213800 www.ticketmaster.co.uk
7-12 April at the Woking New Victoria Theatre
01483 545900 www.theambassadors.com/woking
14-19 April at the Cardiff New Theatre
029 2087 8889
21-26 April at the Richmond Theatre
020 8940 0088 www.theambassadors.com/richmond
28 April-3 May to be confirmed
5-10 May to be confirmed
12-17 May to be confirmed
19-24 May to be confirmed
26-31 May to be confirmed
2-7 June at the Glasgow Kings
0845 3303551 www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk
9-14 June at the His Majesties Theatre, Aberdeen
01224 641122 www.hmtheatre.com
16-21 June at the Milton Keynes Theatre
01908 606090
The National in the West End
Life x 3
by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
Savoy Theatre - +44 (0)20 7836 8888
from 26 September for 10 weeks
Lerner and Loewe's
My Fair Lady
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane - +44 (0)20 7494 5090
The National in the USA
Oklahoma!
by Rodgers and Hammerstein
Gershwin Theater, Broadway
See when Oklahoma! was at the National
Recent Touring history
Since 1994, many NT productions, including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Death of a Salesman, Wild Oats, The London Cuckolds, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Rose, Private Lives, Closer, The Oresteia, The Heiress, Sparkleshark, Hamlet, Noises Off, Hinterland, The Good Hope, Closing Time, Sanctuary and The Associate have been seen on tour around the UK by over a quarter of a million people.
In 1997 to 1998 Othello completed a world tour which took in Salzburg, Phoenix, Warsaw, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Wellington, Adelaide and New York; Not About Nightingales went to Houston, Texas, from June to July 1998 ; An Enemy of the People played at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, from July to September 1998 and also visited Connecticut, where Copenhagen was also seen in June of that year. In 2000 and 2001, Hamlet visited Elsinore, Stockholm, Belgrade and Boston, Minneapolis, Phoenix and New York.
Other productions from the NT to be seen in New York include Carousel, Arcadia, Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles), Racing Demon, Skylight, Stanley, Closer and Amy's View - the last four were nominated for twenty-three Tony Awards between them - Copenhagen, Our Lady of Sligo, Rose and Noises Off.
The Oresteia visited Toronto in April 2000.
Elsewhere in London: Oh What a Lovely War, after touring the UK in a big top, played a season at the Roundhouse; An Inspector Calls was in the West End from 1995 to 2002, at the Aldwych Theatre, then the Garrick and finally the Playhouse Theatre; Closer played an extended run at the Lyric, The Invention of Love was at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, Baby Doll was at the Albery, Copenhagen was at the Duchess, Gagarin Way was at the Arts Theatre, The Island was at the Old Vic, Humble Boy was at the Gielgud Theatre and Vincent in Brixton was at Wyndhams Theatre.
The Madness of George III and Richard III were also adapted as major feature films. Other National Theatre productions that have been filmed recently include King Lear, Oklahoma! and The Merchant of Venice.
For more information, phone the Touring Office on
+44 (0)20-7452 3452
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