Screen treats ahead for English stage-production fans

The National Theater Live is returning to China in 2018, with more screenings of sellout English stage productions.

Launched in the United Kingdom in 2009, National Theater Live, an initiative that broadcasts British theater productions to cinemas around the world, has brought works featuring film actors, such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston to Beijing and Shanghai since 2012.

Among the eight productions, the National Theater Live will bring the hit musical, Follies, starring Imelda Staunton, Janie Dee and Philip Quast; Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove's new work Obsession, starring Jude Law; a critically-acclaimed version of Edward Ablee's classic, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and a new production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night featuring Tamsin Greig.