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.

Most Popular Nicholas Hytner Trailers

Total trailers found: 36

Twelfth Night Trailer (1998)

30 August 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.

The Choral Trailer (2025)

07 November 2025

As World War I rages on, Dr. Henry Guthrie takes over a British choral society that's lost most of its men to the army.

The Madness of King George Trailer (1994)

28 December 1994

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788.

The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon Trailer (1989)

20 December 1989

A behind-the-scenes look at the putting on of the successful West End stage musical, including footage of the cast rehearsing and the triumphant first night.

National Theatre Live: People Trailer (2013)

21 March 2013

People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house.

The Crucible Trailer (1996)

27 November 1996

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

National Theatre Live: Othello Trailer (2013)

26 September 2013

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.

Center Stage Trailer (2000)

12 May 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.

The Lady in the Van Trailer (2015)

30 October 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.

The Object of My Affection Trailer (1998)

17 April 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.

National Theatre Live: The Book of Dust — La Belle Sauvage Trailer (2022)

17 February 2022

Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.

Allelujah Trailer (2023)

17 March 2023

When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning of a concert in honor of the hospital's most celebrated nurse.

National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem Trailer (2015)

16 April 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).

Don Carlo - ROH Trailer (2008)

14 June 2008

Rolando Villazón Triumphantly Returns To The Stage As Don Carlo In The 2007/2008 Royal Opera House'S Producton Of Don Carlo.

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage Trailer (2013)

02 November 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.

Beat the Devil Trailer (2021)

11 November 2021

Drama by David Hare in which Ralph Fiennes stars as the playwright, recounting his experience of contracting Covid-19 on the day lockdown was announced in the UK.

Così fan tutte Trailer (2006)

25 November 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.

National Theatre Live: Collaborators Trailer (2011)

01 December 2011

John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.

National Theatre Live: Phèdre Trailer (2009)

25 June 2009

A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the Atenian King Theseus, who conceived a forbidden love for his son (by an earlier wife) Hyppolytus.

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar Trailer (2018)

22 March 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.

The History Boys Trailer (2006)

02 October 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.

National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy Trailer (2022)

26 May 2022

Ralph Fiennes leads the cast in David Hare’s blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever.

Pebbles in the Flood Trailer (1975)

01 October 1975

Musings on life and literature in this student drama made by the Cambridge Film Unit.

La Clemenza Di Tito Trailer (1991)

16 September 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.

National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors Trailer (2011)

15 September 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.

National Theatre Live: London Assurance Trailer (2010)

24 June 2010

Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charles also falls in love with Grace.

On Broadway Trailer (2019)

12 October 2019

An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce.

Giant Trailer (2026)

19 November 2026

A dramatisation of a period in Roald Dahl's life during the summer of 1983, as he makes final edits to book "The Witches" before its release, after his 1983 literary review of the picture book "God Cried" about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War was deemed anti-Semitic.

National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (2019)

03 June 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.

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art Trailer (2010)

22 April 2010

National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings, and Frances de la Tour, returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations.

GIANT - The Play Trailer (2026)

30 July 2026

In the summer of 1983, just before the release of The Witches, Giant imagines a tense meeting between Roald Dahl and his American and British publishers as they scramble to contain the fallout from his public denunciation of Israel and defence of the Palestinians in a review of a book on the 1982 Lebanon war.

National Theatre Live: Hamlet Trailer (2010)

09 December 2010

A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT'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.

National Theatre Live: Young Marx Trailer (2017)

07 December 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.

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo Trailer (2010)

11 December 2010

Family jealousy, threat of rebellion, political back-stabbing and the Inquisition weigh heavy on the court of King Phillip II.

National Theatre Live: Timon of Athens Trailer (2012)

01 November 2012

Based on Shakespeare’s play, Timon of Athens tells the tale of conspicuous consumption, debt and ruin.

National Theatre Live: Travelling Light Trailer (2012)

09 February 2012

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.