Live from the London Stage

By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel

Hey, all you theater lovers, the next best thing to being there is seeing a production broadcast live on screen. And thanks to National Theatre Live, our audience members get to see 5 amazing productions over the next few months without having to use their passports!

Up first is Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land, broadcast live from the West End’s Wyndham Theatre at 2:00 on Thursday, December 15. (If you cannot attend the live screening, there will be an encore showing on Jan. 5 at 6:30). For those of you who missed its hit run on Broadway, here’s your chance to see “two of the greatest actors ever born in one of the greatest plays ever written” (Time Out). Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart portray two aging writers, Hirst and Spooner (did you know that the names derived, respectively, from famous Yorkshire and Lancashire cricketers?) who meet by chance in a pub and continue their drinking and verbal sparring through the night in this brilliant revival. Listen to Damien Molony and Owen Teale, who also star in the play, share their take on No Man’s Land and the meaning of the title:

The remaining four productions all take place in 2017 so mark your calendar now!
Amadeus: Live: Feb. 2 at 2:00; Encore: Feb. 13 at 6:30
Saint Joan: Live: Feb. 16 at 2:00; Encore: Feb. 28 at 6:30
Hedda Gabler: Live: March 9 at 2:00; Encore: March 15 at 6:30
Twelfth Night: Live: April 6 at 2:00; Encore: April 18 at 6:30

Tickets are on sale now!