"The National Theatre has just announced its 2026 spring season of four plays, a heavy-on-the classics affair that kicks off with a rare revival in the small Dorman Theatre, which is usually used for new writing only. In fact Anthony Lau's revival of Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy (Jan 30-Mar 14 2026) is the odd one out of the season in more ways than one - it's actually new NT boss Indhu Rubasingham's first piece of programming in the Dorfman, due to emergency upgrade works delaying her predecessor Rufus Norris's final shows there, and begins its run some time before the other shows."
"The play is a drama about Gregor Antonescu (Ben Daniels), a ruthless international financier who takes refuge in the New York apartment of his estranged son Basil (Laurie Kynaston) as he attempts to regroup and bounce back from the ravages of the Great Depression. The rest of the season kicks off in March, with the biggest Olivier theatre playing host to a new version of Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk (Mar 6-Apr 29 2026), a drama about a group of Russian bourgeois enjoying a frivolous summer"
The National Theatre's 2026 spring season comprises four plays focused on classic revivals. Anthony Lau's revival of Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy runs Jan 30–Mar 14 2026 in the smaller Dorman/Dorfman space, starring Ben Daniels and Laurie Kynaston, and marks Indhu Rubasingham's first programming in that space following emergency upgrade delays. The Olivier opens in March with a new version of Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk (Mar 6–Apr 29 2026), adapted by Nina Raine with her brother Moses and directed by Robert Hastie. A high-profile revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Mar 21–Jun 6 2026) will be directed by Marianne Elliott and stars Monica Barbaro, Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner.
Read at Time Out London
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