The announcement involves nine productions that will play on the National Theatre's South Bank stages, including four world premieres.
National Theatre 2025 season.
Today the National Theatre has announced its new season for 2025. It will also mark the final season from their Artistic Director Rufus Norris.
Kicking off things will be Michael Abbensetts' comedy Alterations. sourced from the Black Plays Archive. Lynette Linton will direct Arinzé Kene and Cherrelle Skeete in a revival of the play for the first time in 40 years. Alterations will play in the Lyttelton Theatre from 20 February to 5 April 2025 and expose the Guyanese experience of 1970s London.
This will be followed by Stephen Sondheim's final musical Here We Are which will transfer to London from NewBuñuel’s iconic films York. With a book by Tony Award-nominee David Ives (All in the Timing), Here We Are is inspired by two of Luis Buñuel’s iconic films. The cast will include Tracie Bennett and Denis O'Hare, find out further information here about this musical.
Juliet Stevenson (The Doctor) will star in David Lan's new play The Land of the Living. Directed by Stephen Daldry and running in the Dorfman Theatre from September, it tells the story of displaced children after World War II. Dates for its Autumn run will be announced soon.
The team behind Prima Face, writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin will reunite for the world premiere of Inter Alia. Rosamund Pike (Saltburn) will make her National Theatre debut as an eminent High Court Judge who is forced to reckon with her professional life and role as wife, mother, friend and feminist. It will run at the Lyttelton Theatre in Summer 2025, with dates to be announced.
The previously announced Dear England will return for a new run on the Olivier stage before it transfers to The Lowry in Salford.
Lastly, Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork's innovative musical London Road will return to the National Theatre from 5 to 21 June, along with Tim Price's Nye which will run from 3 to 16 July. Michael Sheen will once again star in Nye, also playing at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff for a limited run.
