Tickets to see Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett in a new National Theatre show will go on sale this May.
The Australian actress, 56, who won Oscars for her roles in The Aviator and Blue Jasmine, will star in the world premiere of Benedict Andrews’ new production Electra/Persona alongside Hedda’s Nina Hoss and Black Doves star Ella Lily Hyland.
The National Theatre announced on Tuesday that the show will run from August 19 until October 10 with tickets going on sale on Thursday May 21.
The venue also confirmed tickets for Catarina And The Beauty Of Killing Fascists, Some Woman, Cloud 9 and The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice will go on sale on the same day.
The National Theatre announced additional casting to its 2026 programme including Bad Sisters actress Anne-Marie Duff who will join the world premiere of Some Woman.
The Helen Edmundson play follows Julie Robson, an ordinary woman who, after being used to feeling overlooked, finds herself taking a stand after an encounter on a station platform goes wrong.
Directed by Blanche McIntyre, the play will run at the Dorfman Theatre from October 7 until November 21.
Fresh Meat and You star Charlotte Ritchie will also join the National Theatre in Caryl Churchill’s landmark play Cloud 9.
Directed by Dominic Cooke, the production will run from November 2 until January 13 at the Lyttleton Theatre with Ritchie, who also starred in Ghosts, joined on stage by The Crown’s Rebecca Humphries, Edward II’s Eloka Ivo, Richard III actor Tom Mothersdale, Too Much star Ellen Robertson, Three Sisters actor Stuart Thompson and Black Doves’ Sam Troughton.
Portuguese playwright and director Tiago Rodrigues will make his National Theatre debut with the UK premiere of Catarina And The Beauty Of Killing Fascists.
The politically charged production will be run for one week, September 19 until 26, at the Dorfman Theatre in its native Portuguese with English surtitles.
The theatre also confirmed the dates for a new production of Jim Cartwright’s The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, starring Francesca Mills, which will run from December 2 until January 23.
Directed by Robert Hastie, the play follows a shy Little Voice who, after hiding her voice away, is heard by her mother’s latest fling, talent scout Ray Slay.
Tickets for Electra/Persona, Catarina And The Beauty Of Killing Fascists, Some Woman, Cloud 9 and The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice go on general sale from 12 noon on Thursday May 21.
