Bryan Cranston's All My Sons Arrives on NT at Home
Ivo van Hove's Olivier-winning All My Sons, with Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Paapa Essiedu, streams on NT at Home this month.

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- Ivo van Hove's All My Sons, named best revival at this year's Olivier awards, is streaming on NT at Home.
- The cast includes Bryan Cranston as Joe Keller, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as his wife and Paapa Essiedu as his son.
- The Guardian compares the production's emotional impact to van Hove's A View from the Bridge (2014); design is by Jan Versweyveld.
Ivo van Hove's West End production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, named best revival at this year's Olivier awards, is now available to stream on NT at Home.
The production reunites the cast that made it one of the most talked-about stagings of the season: Bryan Cranston as compromised factory owner Joe Keller, Marianne Jean-Baptiste as his wife Kate, and Paapa Essiedu as his son Chris. Jan Versweyveld's stark design, a hallmark of van Hove's collaborations, should look striking on screen.
Van Hove's staging of Miller's tragedy for "the common man" proved, according to the Guardian's review, every bit as emotionally honed as his celebrated A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic in 2014. That earlier production, starring Mark Strong, became a benchmark for contemporary Miller revivals and transferred from the Young Vic to the West End and Broadway. Critics now place All My Sons alongside it.
The filming captures the production following its run at Wyndham's Theatre in London, where Cranston and Jean-Baptiste drew particular praise for cranking up the tension in Miller's domestic tragedy of wartime profiteering and its consequences.
The streaming release marks a significant addition to NT at Home's catalogue, giving audiences beyond London access to an award-winning production with a major international cast. Cranston, best known for screen work including Breaking Bad, has made stage performance a central part of his career; Jean-Baptiste and Essiedu bring their own considerable stage credentials to the filmed version.
Miller wrote All My Sons in 1947, and the play has remained a fixture of the repertory — a family drama that opens outward into questions of responsibility, guilt and the price of the American dream. Van Hove's approach, with Versweyveld's design stripping the staging to its essentials, has proven well suited to the camera.
The release arrives as part of a broader month of theatre streaming highlighted by the Guardian, which also notes a newly released deep-cut by Shelagh Delaney and the 20th anniversary of Black Watch, Gregory Burke and John Tiffany's landmark documentary play about Scottish soldiers in Iraq. Together they point to a streaming landscape increasingly anchored by major revivals with star casts.
For viewers who missed the Wyndham's run, the NT at Home release offers the clearest evidence yet of whether van Hove's live intensity survives the transition to screen — and the Olivier voters' verdict suggests it will.
Original: ntathome.com
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