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The fastest and most convenient way to buy a ticket is through our online system.

Tickets can be purchased either by clicking "Buy ticket" buttons on our website or directly through our ticket sales website:

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Please note that in accordance with point 10, section 9 of the Rules of Online Ticket Sales at the National Theatre and point 12, section 38 of the Consumer Rights Act of 30 May 2014 (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 827), the withdrawal from the contract and a refund of the tickets purchased online is not possible.

Tickets purchased online must be presented to the staff in printed form or on a mobile device (mobile phone, tablet).

Box offices

Box Offices' hours:
Main box office at 3, Theatre Square (plac Teatralny 3)
• open from Tuesday to Sunday 3.00pm – 7.00pm

Box office at 3, Wierzbowa Street (ulica Wierzbowa 3 / entrance from ulica Fredro)
• open on the days of performances at the Jerzy Grzegorzewski Wierzbowa Street Hall or Studio Theatre – one hour before a start of a performance

Booking tickets 

You can book tickets by telephoning the following numbers:
+48 22 69 20 604
+48 22 69 20 664

Phone booking hours:
• Monday – Friday 9.00am – 7.00pm
• Saturday – Sunday 3.00pm – 7.00pm

Payments by bank transfer

If you decide to pay by transfer, please report this fact at the reservation. If you wish to receive a VAT invoice, please send all the necessary details to the following email address: pomoc_bilety@narodowy.pl. VAT invoices can only contain the details of a payer.      

The account number for bank transfers (does not apply to online sales):
BGK (Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego)
83 1130 1017 0020 1460 3420 0008

Collection of booked tickets

To purchase and collect booked tickets please visit our Box offices half an hour prior to the performance. Immediately before a show, a cashier deals in the first place with reservations and the sale of tickets and rush tickets for a current show.

Return of tickets purchased at the box office, online or by bank transfer

• Tickets purchased at the Box office may be returned only with a receipt.

• The return of individual tickets is possible no later than two days before the performance.

• The return of 10 or more tickets is possible no later than five working days before the performance.

• In the case of tickets paid by transfer with the option of collecting them at the box office, a refund is possible only after sending an e-mail to the following address: pomoc_bilety@narodowy.pl

• The return of tickets purchased online and the return of tickets purchased as part of the purchase of at least 60% of the available seats in the audience is not possible. Returns of tickets purchased online are only possible in the event of cancellation of the performance or change of repertoire.

Concession tickets

Discount tickets are available to: students (up to the age of 26), doctoral students, teachers, people over 65, pensioners, and people with special needs who can take a numbered seat in the audience, provided they have a valid identification document entitling them to a discount.

Rush tickets

• Rush tickets are available at our box offices for an hour before the start of a performance. For the performances held on the Jerzy Grzegorzewski Wierzbowa Street Hall or Studio Theatre, a maximum of two rush tickets per one person can be purchased.

• Students of state art colleges and universities are entitled to special passes for 15 PLN to all performances at the National Theatre. A valid student ID must be presented at the time of purchase. Each ID allows for the purchase of one pass.

• Priority for the purchase of rush tickets is given to the National Theatre employees, the employees of other theatres, and the members of the Association of Polish Stage Artists and a person with a physical disability who uses a wheelchair and cannot take a numbered seat in the audience, provided they have a valid identification document entitling them to a discount. Each ID allows for the purchase of one pass.

• The Theater does not take reservations, except for people with special needs who use wheelchairs and cannot take a numbered seat in the audience, as well as their caregivers.

Accessibility →

Performances begin promptly at their scheduled times. The theatre reserves the right to refuse admission into the auditorium to latecomers. This rule also applies to spectators who are late for the next act of the performance, i.e. entering the auditorium after interval.

 

  • CHARLATANS

    “When I’m not acting, life is black and white,” says the heroine of Pablo Remón’s play. Charlatans directed by Grzegorz Małecki, Polish preview: 13 June 2025.

  • HAMLET

    Jan Englert crowns his twenty-eight seasons of artistic work at the National Theatre with a performance of Hamlet.

  • HEAVEN AND HELL

    Although Maria Wojtyszko's play touches upon the painful subject of losing loved ones, Jakub Krofta's deft staging provides light entertainment for the whole family. 

  • OTHER DELIGHTS

    This adaptation of the novel Other Delights is the second staging of one of Jerzy Pilch's works at the National Theatre, following The Holy Father's Skis.  

  • FAUST

    Faust is a story based on an ancient legend of a scholar who yearns so much for just a moment of happiness that he makes a pact with the devil. 

  • A DREAM PLAY

    After the well-received Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Sławomir Narloch returned to the National Theatre with another premiere – A Dream Play by Strindberg.

     

  • KING LEAR

    King Lear may be Shakespeare's boldest examination of human nature. Jan Englert will play the title role in the National Theatre's production.

  • WAITING FOR GODOT

    "What do we do now? Wait. [...] We're waiting for Godot". Piotr Cieplak directs Waiting for Godot by Beckett. Is this a classic yet? Does it still have its avant-garde power?

  • FREDRO: THE JUBILEE YEAR

    To celebrate 230 years since Aleksander Fredro's birth, the National Theatre invites you to an evening dedicated to the life and works of Poland’s greatest comedy writer. 

  • TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS

    Małgorzata Bogajewska directs for the second time at the National Theatre. This time she draws on Ödön von Horváth's 1931 drama.

  • THE THEATRE MAKER

    The play by Thomas Bernhard, one of the most outstanding playwrights of the second half of the 20th century. In the title role – Jerzy Radziwiłowicz. 

  • ALICE'S WONDERLAND

    Have you ever quarreled with the Time or visited a forest where things have no names? Alice’s Wonderland is a musical performance based on the famous novel by Lewis Carroll. 

  • THE MISANTHROPE

    Jan Englert stages a classic play by Molière. What is Alcest's misanthropy: an uncompromising commitment to the truth or a doomed uprising against social conventions?

  • THE DECALOGUE

    A meditation upon the moral foundations of the present – an iconic work of Polish cinema, rethought thirty-five years after its creation by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz. 

  • MARY STUART

    Grzegorz Wiśniewski returns to the classic drama about human passions interwoven in a ruthless machinery of history and intrigue.

  • MÜNCHHAUSEN FOR ADULTS

    Baron von Münchhausen lived in the 18th century and told incredible stories about himself. Maciej Wojtyszko directs his own play about the famous adventurer and mystifier.

  • Solidarity with Ukraine | Солідарні з Україною

    The ensemble of the National Theatre stands in solidarity with the Ukrainians who are fighting for the independence of their homeland.

  • PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

    1900. On a hot, stormy day, Mrs Appleyard's boarding school residents go on a picnic near Hanging Rock. The new theatrical version of the Australian prose classics. 

  • SNAKE SKIN

    Artur Urbański directs his own play which main character is Ruth Berlau, one of Bertolt Brecht's closest associates and life companions.

  • AUTUMN SONATA

    A story about the need for love and acceptance, about an inherited emotional coldness, about the psychological costs of creativity. A theatrical version of a film script by Ingmar Bergman. 

  • MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS

    A performance about the need to experience something that surpasses us. In the title role of the prioress – Małgorzata Kożuchowska. 

  • HOW TO BE LOVED

    This is the performance about love and moral responsibility for another person as well as the mechanisms controlling human memory. The dramatisation of the story by Kazimierz Brandys.


  • LUNGS

    Briliant, full of humour and touching love story of a young couple. Breakups and comebacks, passion and sex, the first important decisions and the search for meaning in a complex, modern world.


  • UHLANS

    The Museum of All-Time Polish Uhlans. Exhibits of the national exacerbation. A serious comedy in three acts about the entanglement in myths of Polishness. 


  • THE IMAGE MAKERS

    The truth about the essence of creation and responsibility in art. Director Viktor Sjöström is working on the film The Phantom Carriage, based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf. 

  • FOREFATHER'S EVE

    Mickiewicz's poetic drama interpreted by Lithuanian Master Eimuntas Nekrošius — theatre visionary known for his unique theatrical language.


  • KORDIAN

    The Polish nation's tragic choice: to die heroically in the name of a noble idea or live a life "making shoes for dogs"? — the alternative presented to Kordian in two parables.

  • FLEA THE SWINDLER

    Tremendous fun and great laughs – not just for kids. The antics of the Flea are directed by Anna Seniuk with the music composed by Maciej Małecki.


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