114 mins

Created especially for The Australian Ballet and captured live at the Sydney Opera House. Based on the beloved operetta, this lively tale is set in the ballrooms and salons of Belle Époque Paris. Expect enough tangled affairs, narrow misses and jealous lovers to fuel a French farce.

'The Merry Widow is a real crowd pleaser' Dance Australia

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WHY? A laugh-along favourite with hum-along melodies and its heart on its sleeve

£15

•  22 Sep from £15

180 mins

Encore screening. The play illustrates how uncontrollable emotions can range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters. Taking audiences from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival.

WHY? Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable

'A superb cast deliver striking performances in a production that is knowingly dissonant, from the costumes to the climax' ★★★★ The Guardian

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£15

•   5 Oct from £15

95 mins.

Encore screening. Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean – which rapidly descends into a savage fight for survival.

WHY? A new version of August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie, starring BAFTA Award winning actress Vanessa Kirby (The Crown)

'Provocative and profound’ ★★★★ The Stage

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£15

•   6 Oct from £15
•   6 Oct from £15

150 mins

Filmed live at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn and Cecily discover how unsmooth runs the course of true love, while Lady Bracknell keeps a baleful eye on the mayhem of manners.

WHY? Wilde’s much-loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays

'A joyous, irreverent and enjoyable production' ★★★★★ Stage Review

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£15

•   9 Oct from £15

150 mins

Britain’s ultimate pop star, Cliff Richard is celebrating 60 years in the music industry and he wants to invite you to the most fabulous big screen party of the year! His incredible energy and passion on stage will sweep you off your feet and be sure to have you swaying in the aisles.

WHY? With a repertoire featuring six decades of such timeless hits as Devil Woman, Congratulations or We Don’t Talk Anymore

£15

•  14 Oct from £15

Run time tbc.

Ian McKellen stars in this encore screening from London’s West End. A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.

Two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.

WHY? ‘Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production’ ★★★★★ The Telegraph

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£15

•  17 Oct from £15
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160 mins.

Live screening (Wednesday). Based on the life and career of Broadway star, film actress and comedienne Fanny Brice (Sheridan Smith) and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick Arnstein. Featuring a host of iconic numbers including People, I’m the Greatest Star, and Don’t Rain on My Parade.

WHY? ‘Triumphant revival of the classic Broadway show’ ★★★★★ The Stage

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£15

•  24 Oct from £15
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280 mins

Live screening (Sunday). The second opera Richard Wagner’s epic Der Ring Des Nibelungen. Among the musical fireworks and Norse mythology, at the centre of this opera are the unforgettable characters and the complex entanglements between them.

WHY? Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera, conducts an international cast

£15

•  28 Oct from £15
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by Alan Bennett

170 mins.

Alan Bennett’s sharp and hilarious new play is ‘just what the doctor ordered’ (Daily Telegraph). Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run.

The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.

Alan Bennett’s celebrated plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George III, all of which were also seen on film. Allelujah! is his tenth collaboration with award-winning director Nicholas Hytner.

WHY? ‘Leaves you bobbing on a wave of happiness’ Independent

£15

•   1 Nov from £15

160 mins.

Encore screening, filmed live at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. This entertaining and still topical play brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. An ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern’s smooth ascent to the top seems assured until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery.

WHY? The talented ensemble cast includes real-life father and son Edward and Freddie Fox

'Edward and Freddie Fox, as a father and son, are the star turn in this stylish revival of Wilde’s send-up of a money-mad society' The Guardian

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£15

•   7 Nov from £15

155 mins.

Encore screening from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. An earnest young American woman, a louche English lord and an innocent young chap join a house party of fools and grotesques. Nearby a woman lives, cradling a long-buried secret.

First performed in 1893, Oscar Wilde’s marriage of glittering wit and Ibsenite drama satirised the socially conservative world of the Victorian upper class, creating a vivid new theatrical voice which still resonates today.

WHY? Starring Olivier award winner Eve Best and BAFTA nominated actress Anne Reid

'An exhilarating payoff that's a long time coming' The Telegraph

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£15

•  13 Nov from £15

185 mins.

Live screening (Wednesday). Marius Petipa’s fantasy, set in legendary India, tells the tale of a temple dancer and the prince who loves her but marries another. The melody and moods of Minkus’s music perfectly match the fluidity and precision of the classical choreography and the drama of the storytelling.

WHY? Natalia Makarova’s production of this 19th century classic ballet brings an exotic world of temple dancers and noble warriors to life

£15

•  13 Nov from £15

Run time tbc.

Live screening. Troilus and Cressida swear they will always be true to one another. But in the seventh year of the siege of Troy their innocence is tested and exposed to the savage corrupting influence of war, with tragic consequences.

WHY? Virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie collaborates with RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran to create a satirical futuristic vision of a world resounding with the rhythm of battle

£15

•  14 Nov from £15

Run time tbc.

Live screening from Nottingham Playhouse. It’s 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy. With the King’s mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown.

WHY? Written by one of Britain’s best-loved playwrights Alan Bennett

£15

•  20 Nov from £15

Based on Charles Dickens own performance adaptation.

Simon Callow and director-designer Tom Cairns have created a one-man theatrical extravaganza of festive story-telling. Following critically acclaimed, sold out theatre seasons in 2011, 2012 and again in 2016, Simon Callow returns to wow audiences with this tour de force performance, reimagined especially for cinema.

WHY? Both heart-warming and deeply moving – it’s a Christmas must see!

'As Christmas theatre goes, it doesn't get more trad than this' TimeOut London

£15

•  11 Dec from £15

150 mins.

Encore screening. Tchaikovsky’s much-loved music is matched to a magical adventure on Christmas Eve for Clara and her Nutcracker doll. Their journey to the Land of Sweets brings with it some of the most familiar of all ballet moments, such as the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Waltz of the Flowers.

Peter Wright’s production for The Royal Ballet keeps true to the spirit of this Russian ballet classic, with period details and dancing snowflakes.

WHY? One of the most delightful ways to discover the enchantment of ballet

'The Nutcracker is perfect for bringing the magic of the festive season to the stage' ★★★★ The Telegraph

£15

•  16 Dec from £15

180 mins.

Recorded live from London’s iconic Palladium. The multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Centre Theatre’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical.

Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children.

With one of the finest scores ever written including Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You, and Shall We Dance and featuring a company of over 50 world-class performers.

WHY? ‘Five stars for a sumptuous King and I. Book Now. It’s a hit’ The Times

‘We left the London Palladium on a bright cloud of music - joyous!’ Daily Mail

‘Looks and sounds ravishing. Complete rapture’ The Telegraph

£15

•  28 Dec from £15
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Run time tbc.

An encore screening from the National Theatre of Shakespeare’s great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

WHY? Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play the famous fated couple

£15

•  30 Dec from £15