National Theater Live Presents: The Playboy of the Western World

Date: October 20, 2026
Time (Duration): 7:00pm (4h)

Event Description

35th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Lenfest Outreach & Engagement Series

National Theater Live Presents: The Playboy of the Western World

By John Millington Synge

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

7 p.m. at the W&L Stackhouse Theater/Elrod Commons

Washington and Lee Campus

Running Time: 2 hours and 30 min. with 15-min. interval

Tickets are required. General Public: $20; Student: $8; W&L Student: FREE with ID. Taxes and processing fees included in ticket pricing.

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge's riveting play of youth and self-discovery.

Pegeen Flaherty's life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he's killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene...

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.

Performance sponsored in part by the Class of '64.