The new show will make its world premiere this November at the National Theatre in Washington, D.
In Tokyo, some 1, 200 people, including top government officials, attended a ceremony at the National Theatre of Japan.
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The last major UK revival opened in 2001 at the National Theatre in London, starring ex-EastEnders actress Martine McCutcheon.
Billie Piper is to make her debut at the National Theatre in a new play by Enron playwright Lucy Prebble.
Meanwhile, Alan Bennett's new play People at the National Theatre sees the playwright take a provocative swipe at the National Trust.
Simon Russell Beale's performance in the title role in Timon of Athens, at the National Theatre, won him the award for best Shakespearean performance.
Mr Ramsay had been due to start a new job at the National Theatre of Scotland on Monday, but did not turn up for work.
Greig's theatre credits include The Little Dog Laughed in the West End, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award, and Gethsemane at the National Theatre.
The production, led by directors John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg, originated at the National Theatre of Scotland and made a stop last summer in the Lincoln Center Festival.
He said he had finished a play about the friendship between poet WH Auden and composer Benjamin Britten, with rehearsals due to start at the National Theatre in September.
It was last staged in London at the National Theatre, with Dame Harriet Walter and Clare Higgins as the teachers, and Emily Watson as the pupil who accuses them.
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The 47-year-old's musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is currently in previews and he is scheduled to follow it with a staging of King Lear at the National Theatre.
Rourke recently directed her first production at the National theatre - Men Should Weep - and is soon to begin work on the West End production of Much Ado about Nothing starring Catherine Tate and David Tennant.
It helps that Washington has such a diverse range of stage lovers: educated types who patronise the likes of the Shakespeare Theatre and the Folger, high-end production-philes at the National Theatre and niche performance-goers at the Pulitzer Prize-winning Studio.
By contrast, "The Last of the Haussmans, " Stephen Beresford's new work at the National Theatre's Lyttelton, features Julie Walters as Judy Haussman, an elderly hippy windbag who makes the kind of ditsy, dirty speeches that would shock your socks off if spoken by your grandmother.
The film has already been shown at the National Film Theatre in London, as well as in Italy, Germany and Australia.
The National Theatre and Headlong co-production opened at the National's Cottesloe Theatre on Tuesday.
This year, the pair are joined at number one by the National Theatre's Sir Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, who were second in 2011's list.
At the Apollo Theatre is the restaged West End transfer of the National Theatre's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, " adapted by Simon Stephens from Mark Haddon's award-winning novel (until Jan. 4).
The teenager has also performed with both English National Ballet and American Ballet Theatre at the Coliseum in London in performances of Nutcracker and Le Corsaire.
At the launch, held in the National Theatre, a packed auditorium heard government officials pledge their support and promise action.
When it closes, it will have played 15 previews and 30 regular performances at the Marquis Theatre following a 25-week national tour.
The rhyming narrative of Julia Donaldson has made for a string of best-selling children's books, some of which have been adapted for the stage - the latest of which is Stick Man, which is at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich as part of a national tour.
The politician's comments later earned her the title Bigot of the Year at the Stonewall Awards, and a play at London's National Theatre incorporated a recording of her words.
From there, it became a startling and powerful spectacle mounted by the National Theatre of Great Britain, the production now being staged at Lincoln Center.
But his acting developed and he went to work at Stoke- on-Trent theatre and later with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.
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