Backstage: Ralph Fiennes Straight Line Crazy

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Wall

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage

Joe Papp in Five Acts

Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words

Art, Truth and Politics

Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing

Alan Clarke: His Own Man

Via Dolorosa

Arthouse

The Devil's Legacy

National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy

Beat the Devil

Roadkill

National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running

The White Crow

Collateral

Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave

Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House

Denial

National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

National Theatre Live: Skylight

Salting the Battlefield

Turks & Caicos

Getsemani

Page Eight

The Reader

My Zinc Bed

The Hours

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

The Designated Mourner

The Absence of War

The Secret Rapture

Damage

Heading Home

Strapless

Paris by Night

Plenty

Theatre Night

Wetherby

Saigon: Year Of The Cat

Dreams of Leaving

Licking Hitler

Knuckle

Brassneck

Man Above Men

Play for Today

Sir David Rippon Hare  (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002 and The Reader in 2008.
In the West End, he had his greatest success with the plays Plenty (1978), which he adapted into a 1985 film starring Meryl Streep, Racing Demon (1990), Skylight (1997), and Amy's View (1998). The four plays ran on Broadway in 1982–83, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three Tony Award nominations for Best Play for the first three and two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Play. His other notable projects on stage include A Map of the World, Pravda (starring Anthony Hopkins at the Royal National Theatre in London), Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War, The Vertical Hour, and his latest play Straight Line Crazy starring Ralph Fiennes. He wrote screenplays for films including the Stephen Daldry dramas The Hours (2002) and The Reader (2008) and BBC's Page Eight (2011) and Netflix's Collateral (2018).
In addition to his two Academy Award nominations, Hare has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, three Tony Award nominations and has won a BAFTA Award, a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and two Laurence Olivier Awards. He has also been awarded several critics' awards, such as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and he received the Golden Bear in 1985.
Hare has been associate director of the National Theatre since 1984.



David Hare