When the National Theatre asked Nicholas Hytner to succeed Trevor Nunn as artistic director, he did not hesitate -- despite his lucrative career directing films. “This is the best possible job ...

A name keeps cropping up in theater circles these days: Nicholas Hytner. His job as director of Britain’s National Theatre is an important one, but Americans are talking about him for another ...

Nicholas Hytner’s production at the Bridge is complex, hilarious and utterly exhilarating ...

In 1993, Nicholas Hytner directed Maggie Smith for the first time. It was for a West End production of The Importance of ...

Nicholas Hytner staged the play and has directed the intimate movie, running this week in a brief window for awards season before opening in general release next month. For the play, Bennett split ...

LONDON — When National Theater artistic director Nicholas Hytner first read Alan Bennett’s “The History Boys,” he was certain of two things: “There would be no film in it and no interest ...

The thing I am most looking forward to is not having any opinions,” says Nicholas Hytner, with a laugh. “In the next 18 months, I might have to have one or two more, but then it will be great ...

Prime Video has finalized three new cast members for the upcoming season of hit fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The ...

It opens with a nod to The Handmaid’s Tale — a dour chorus of men in dark suits and women in nun-like uniforms chanting solemn psalms — and closes with an ecstatic party, the whole theatre rocking to ...

Nicholas Hytner’s exuberant 2019 take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream was simply too much fun to leave to the history books: ...