Nicholas Hytner
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Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner (born 7 May 1956) is an English film and theatre producer and director. He has been the artistic director of London's National Theatre since 2003.
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National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2019)
A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute grows, the magical royal couple meddle with mortal lives leading to love triangles, mistaken identities and transformations… with hilarious, but dark consequences.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Gwendoline Christie | Oliver Chris | David Moorst | Isis Hainsworth | Tessa Bonham Jones
National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar (2018)
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally ...
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Ben Whishaw | David Morrissey | David Calder | Michelle Fairley
National Theatre Live: Young Marx (2017)
1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy. Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing blocked, his marriage ...
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Rory Kinnear | Nicholas Burns | Nancy Carroll | Oliver Chris | Laura Elphinstone
The Lady In The Van (2015)
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Maggie Smith | Dominic Cooper | Frances de la Tour | Alex Jennings | Gwen Taylor
National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem (2015)
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) returns to the National Theatre with his highly-anticipated new play The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner (Othello, Hamlet, One Man, Two Guvnors). Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brainscience institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Anthony Calf | Damien Molony | Kristin Atherton | Olivia Vinall | Parth Thakerar
National Theatre Live: Fifty Years on Stage (2013)
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.
Runtime: 146 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Roger Allam | Dominic Cooper | Alan Bennett | Simon Russell Beale | Jonathan Bailey
National Theatre Live: Travelling Light (2012)
How had a twenty-two-year-old pretentious layabout made a discovery that would elude every other cinematic pioneer for years to come? In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures ...
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
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One Man, Two Guvnors (2011)
Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and ...
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: James Corden | Jemima Rooper | Suzie Toase | Oliver Chris | Tom Edden
National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2010)
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, ...
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: David Calder | Rory Kinnear | Matthew Barker | Matthew Barker | Marcus Cunningham
Don Carlo (2010)
1886 version in 5 acts. Recorded live on 14 and 17 June and 3 July. Royal Opera House production of Verdi's 'Don Carlo'. The highlight of the 2007/8 season, this lavish production is staged by National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner, conducted by Antonio Pappano, and sees Rolando Villazon and Marina Poplavskaya performing the starring roles.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner | Robin Lough
Stars: Rolando Villazón | Simon Keenlyside | Ferruccio Furlanetto | Marina Poplavskaya | Sonia Ganassi
Così fan tutte (2006)
Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks COSI FAN TUTTE as one of the great works of art from the Age of Enlightenment. Nicholas Hytner's beautiful new production, with its sure touch and theatrical know-how, lives up to its promise to be "shockingly traditional" as Iván Fischer teases artful performances from an outstanding international cast ...
Runtime: 210 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner | Francesca Kemp
Stars: Miah Persson | Anke Vondung | Topi Lehtipuu | Luca Pisaroni | Ainhoa Garmendia
The History Boys (2006)
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Dominic Cooper | Samuel Barnett | Richard Griffiths | James Corden | Samuel Anderson
Center Stage (2000)
A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Zoe Saldana | Scottie Thompson | Peter Gallagher | Amanda Schull | Susan May Pratt
Twelfth Night (1998)
Ah, summer! School is out, work slows down and passions heat up in the warm summer air. Theatrically speaking, it's the perfect time for a sexy comedy where no one is what, or who, they seem and life is full of romantic possibilities. In other words, the perfect time for William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT, or 'What You Will—’ which Lincoln Center Theater presented in the summer of 1998 at the Vivian ...
Runtime: 164 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Helen Hunt | David Patrick Kelly | Philip Bosco | Kyra Sedgwick | Paul Rudd
The Object of My Affection (1998)
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Jennifer Aniston | Allison Janney | Alan Alda | Hayden Panettiere | Paul Rudd
The Crucible (1996)
The movie is centered around the Salem Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. The movie is based on the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. He also wrote the screen play adaptation.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Bruce Davison | Paul Scofield | Winona Ryder | Joan Allen | Daniel Day-Lewis
The Madness of King George (1994)
King George III's erratic behaviour leads to a plot in Parliament to have him declared insane and removed from the throne.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Ian Holm | Helen Mirren | Rupert Graves | Nigel Hawthorne | Amanda Donohoe
La Clemenza Di Tito (1991)
Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito was originally commissioned to celebrate the coronation of the Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia in 1791. This rarely-seen masterpiece was Mozart's last opera. Nicholas Hytner's elegant staging for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera sheds new light on the compelling story of passion that overrides loyalty and integrity that is tested to the extreme.
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Diana Montague | Peter Rose | Philip Langridge | Ashley Putnam | Martine Mahé