National Theatre Live  Leopoldstadt A new play by Tom Stoppard Directed by Patrick Marber Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. ★★★★★‘Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece. Magnificent.’ Independent ★★★★‘Breath taking, the work of a master’ Time Out At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the…

  The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, adapted by Bryony Lavery directed by Nicholas Hytner Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child…

  ★★★★★ ‘richly passionate production’ (Theatre Weekly) ★★★★★ ‘burns with an epic intensity’ (West End Best Friend) Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war, and the psychology of power. Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit to guide a country into war. ★★★★ ‘a broodingly impressive production.’ (Time Out)…