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Displaying events between 01 May 2024 and 31 May 2024

42nd Street - The Musical (PG) 42nd Street, the legendary Broadway musical theatre classic, is a
‘glorious’ (Express) and ‘utterly moreish extravaganza of glitz’ (Times). Telling the story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes who gets her big break on Broadway, this is the largest ever staging of the Tony Award-winning musical and it was filmed live at the magnificent Theatre Royal in the heart of London’s West End. Starring national treasure Bonnie Langford as Dorothy Brock and featuring iconic songs 42nd Street, We’re In The Money and Lullaby Of Broadway, this is pure musical magic on the big screen. Dates: Fri 17, Sat 18 Booking and More Information
Back to Black (15) The life and music of Amy Winehouse, through the journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time. Dates: Fri 10, Sat 11, Mon 13, Tue 14, Thu 16, Fri 17 Booking and More Information
Backstage School: Ages 11 - 16 - Puppet Making Backstage school workshops cover a wide range of on and off stage skills. Thursday 30th May will be puppet making. Dates: Thu 30 Booking and More Information
Backstage School: Ages 11-16 - Stage Combat Backstage school workshops cover a wide range of on and off stage skills. Tuesday 28th May will be stage combat.
 Dates: Tue 28 Booking and More Information
Backstage School: Ages 16-25 - Puppet Making Backstage school workshops cover a wide range of on and off stage skills. Thursday 30th May will be puppet making. Dates: Thu 30 Booking and More Information
Backstage School: Ages 16-25 - Stage Combat Backstage school workshops cover a wide range of on and off stage skills. Tuesday 28th May will be stage combat. Dates: Tue 28 Booking and More Information
Backstage School: Ages 5-11 - Puppet Making Backstage school workshops cover a wide range of on and off stage skills. Thursday 30th May will be puppet making. Dates: Thu 30 Booking and More Information
Backstage School: Ages 5-11 - Stage Combat Backstage school workshops cover a wide range of on and off stage skills. Tuesday 28th May will be stage combat. Dates: Tue 28 Booking and More Information
Big Banana Feet (12A) Capturing ‘The Big Yin’ on and off stage during his 1975 tour of Ireland, Big Banana Feet is a captivating record of Billy Connolly on the cusp of international stardom.

Inspired by the fly-on-the-wall style of DA Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back, director Murray Grigor and cinematographer David Peat present Connolly at his beguiling best, using humour and charm to successfully navigate the political tensions of 1970s Dublin and Belfast.

Featuring iconic stand-up material alongside fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses, this previously elusive milestone of British comedy is now newly restored in 2K from rare 16mm materials.

Credits Dates: Fri 24, Sat 25 Booking and More Information
Challengers (15) Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach is married to a champion on a losing streak. Her strategy for her husband's redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend. Dates: Tue 28, Wed 29, Thu 30, Fri 31 Booking and More Information
Circle Café The Circle Café is an exclusive monthly Members' event to meet the people behind SJT – including actors, directors, and SJT staff - for a fascinating insight into your favourite theatre. Circle Cafés are free for Members to attend and include tea, coffee and sweet treats. You can arrive from 10am onwards, the talk starts at 10.15am and lasts 45 minutes including plenty of time for questions. Dates: Thu 09 Booking and More Information
Civil War (15) A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House. Dates: Sat 04, Tue 07, Wed 08, Thu 09 Booking and More Information
Dementia Friendly Film: The Great Race (1965) In the early 20th century, two rivals, the heroic Leslie and the despicable Professor Fate, engage in an epic automobile race from New York to Paris. Dates: Fri 24 Booking and More Information
Dementia Friendly Movement Class Gentle creative movements that mobilise the body, singing and having fun in a friendly, non-judgemental environment. Dates: Thu 02, Thu 09, Thu 16, Thu 23 Booking and More Information
DNA So there’s this group of teenagers, and they’ve done something bad... really bad, and now they’re panicking and desperately trying to cover it up, but when they find that the cover-up is actually bringing them together in their need to be a part of something more, maybe it isn’t all so bad after all?

Dennis Kelly's dark comedy is the inaugural production from the SJT's Young Company. Come and see the next generation of acting talent.

“Dennis Kelly's short, sharp shocker of a play cleverly piles on the twists, [his] sharp, reflective writing gets inside the characters' heads” The Guardian

“A taut compelling thriller and a modern-day spin on Lord of the Flies, exploring group behaviour and moral equivocation” Financial Times Dates: Wed 08, Thu 09, Fri 10, Sat 11 Booking and More Information
Frozen Light: The Bar At The Edge of Time For audiences with PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities).
The glasses are polished, the lights are low, and time will be hopping. The Bar at the Edge of Time waits only for you, so what are you waiting for?
Leave the hours, minutes, and seconds behind, step across the threshold and meet the bar's maestro mixologists, crooners, and hosts. But a mystery lies at the heart of this place, a mystery hidden even from them. One that can only be solved when we spend our time together.
Age guidance: 16+ Dates: Wed 01 Booking and More Information
Luke Wright's Silver Jubilee Over twenty-five years, Luke Wright has built up a reputation for being one of Britain’s most popular live poets. This year he tries to celebrate his jubilee but ends up taking a deep dive into himself, throwing up questions about class, privilege and his adoption. Edinburgh Fringe smash hit.

“This is the best thing that poet Luke Wright has done, which is saying something.” ★★★★★ The Telegraph
 Dates: Wed 15 Booking and More Information
Macbeth: Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma (12A) (LS) Macbeth is coming.

A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception and superstition.

Once you cross the line, you can never turn back.

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma star in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, directed by Simon Godwin with set and costume design by Frankie Bradshaw. Dates: Thu 02, Fri 03 Booking and More Information
Making Waves York Dance Space and partners brings you an evening of dance. Professional dance artists and community groups will leap onto the stage for Making Waves, showcasing brand new dance work each accompanied by original music composed by North Yorkshire Composer Wilfred Kimber.
Among the line up is BBC Young Dance finalist Maiya Leek and Yorkshire based dance Company Northern Rascals.
The night will also celebrate the breadth of community dance across North Yorkshire showcasing the vibrant and diverse communities of the region. Dates: Sat 18 Booking and More Information
Moviedrome: Young Einstein (1988, PG) Reimaging Albert Einstein as a the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who goes on to invent surfing, rock and roll, split the atom with a chisel, put bubbles into beer and romance Marie Curie. Yahoo Serious’ imaginative comedy ripped up the history book but was stifled by mixed reviews from U.S critics leaving a zesty slice of Australian cinema worthy of rescue from cinematic obscurity. Dates: Fri 31 Booking and More Information
NT LIVE: Nye (15) (LS) Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the [email protected] who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS. This epic new Welsh fantasia is written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris (Small Island).

We are also delighted to share that Nye will be the 100th NT Live to be released in cinemas. There will be more plans around celebrating this milestone announced in due course, but for now we wanted to thank all the venues who have screened our titles over the years and helped us spread British theatre to the widest possible audiences since 2009.

Dates: Thu 09, Fri 10 Booking and More Information
Perfect Days (PG) Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself. Dates: Tue 21, Thu 23 Booking and More Information
Pre-Order - Cinema Dates: Thu 02, Fri 03, Sat 04, Tue 07, Wed 08, Thu 09, Fri 10, Sat 11, Mon 13, Tue 14, Thu 16, Fri 17, Sat 18, Mon 20, Tue 21, Thu 23, Fri 24, Sat 25, Tue 28, Wed 29, Thu 30, Fri 31 Booking and More Information
Pre-Order - The McCarthy Dates: Wed 01, Thu 09, Fri 10, Sat 11, Wed 15, Fri 17, Sat 18, Wed 22, Thu 30 Booking and More Information
Pre-Order - The Round Dates: Wed 08, Thu 09, Fri 10, Sat 11, Sat 18, Thu 23, Sun 26, Tue 28 Booking and More Information
Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back? In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. It turned out that he had testicular cancer and one month later he was lying in hospital waiting to have his murderous gonad removed. Would he survive? (No spoilers!).

For a comedian who had done a whole show on male genitalia (Talking Cock) and written a book about toxic masculinity (The Problem With Men) this felt like some cruel trick of fate.

In his much-anticipated return to stand-up after six years, Richard talks bollocks and answers the question on everyone's lips: Is a severed gonad in a jar a fitting prize to bring in for Taskmaster? Dates: Thu 23 Booking and More Information
ROH Live: CARMEN (LS) Damiano Michieletto’s sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet’s score, which features
Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song. Antonello Manacorda and Emmanuel Villaume conduct
an exciting international cast with Aigul Akhmetshina in the title role. Dates: Wed 01 Booking and More Information
ROH Live: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (LS) Message In A Bottle, the acclaimed dance theatre production by Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Kate Prince, set to
the music of Grammy Award-winning artist Sting, has been filmed for cinema release in partnership with Sadler's
Wells and Universal Music UK. The international refugee crisis is at the centre of this production – an imagined
story about one displaced family, and a universal story of loss, fear, survival, hope and love. Songs including 'Every
Breath You Take', 'Roxanne', 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' and 'Fields of Gold' feature in new
arrangements. Dates: Thu 30 Booking and More Information
ROH Live: THE WINTER’S TALE (LS) Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter's Tale is an award-winning modern ballet
classic adapted from Shakespeare’s profound story of love and loss. Dates: Wed 22 Booking and More Information
Spare Tyre: On the Beach On The Beach is an intimate and interactive sensory experience for 8 people living with dementia and their carers, created by participatory theatre company Spare Tyre. Join us for a day in the life of a working beach, as we explore its myths, magic, perils and ever-changing beauty through dance, music and visual storytelling. Dates: Thu 30 Booking and More Information
Teachers Network In the Boden room - 6pm-7:30pm Dates: Thu 09 Booking and More Information
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) (U) A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. Dates: Sat 18, Mon 20, Thu 23 Booking and More Information
The Trust Fall (15) The story of a man who risked EVERYTHING to bring the truth to light. Dates: Thu 02, Fri 03 Booking and More Information
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. I don’t know why she swallowed a fly..."

But The People’s Theatre Company do!

And now you can too, as they bring the world’s best loved nursery rhyme to life just in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pam Adams' bestselling book.

In this enchanting stage adaptation, aliens from a distant planet have crash-landed on earth and need our help to get home. But there’s a problem. Their rocket runs on stories, not fuel, and only the greatest story in the universe will be enough to save them... Dates: Tue 28 Booking and More Information
Tony Skingle: The Best of the Elvis '68 Comeback Special After his release from the army in 1960, Elvis returned briefly to live performance before putting his music on hold to pursue a career in films. It would be 1968 before the world saw him perform live again. He was both anxious and apprehensive but the '68 Comeback Special, performed in the round at the NBC Studios in Burbank, California, was hugely popular and well reviewed, and re-launched his singing career. Tony Skingle's show brings together sections of the '68 Comeback Special and the Vegas years, all performed in his own unique way. Tony is one of the UK's best Elvis tribute acts. He is based in Scarborough but performs all over the world. Dates: Sun 26 Booking and More Information

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