Please note: this is an encore performance recorded on 25 July. The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power directed by Sam Mendes The story of a family and a company that chan...

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• Thu 29 Aug
• 210 minutes

This year marks 50 years since the legendary first Woodstock Festival and we’re throwing a party to celebrate! Join us for a night of peace, music and film - with themed drinks and music, a fancy-d...

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• Sat 31 Aug
• 216 minutes

Dementia Friendly Screening of The Sound of Music (1965). There will be a 15 minute interval half way through the film. A tuneful, heartwarming story, The Sound of Music is based on the real lif...

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• Thu 5 Sep
• 187 minutes

We’re delighted to welcome Cogito Books to be part of this event and they look forward to seeing you at the bookstall in the cinema where you can buy your own copy of The Testaments on the first day i...

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• Tue 10 Sep
• 110 minutes

Fleabag Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge Directed by Vicky Jones ★★★★★ 'Witty, filthy and supreme.' Guardian See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BB...

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• Thu 12 Sep to Sat 28 Sep
• 100 minutes

The Cowfoot Prince - Private Screening, Exclusive Live Performance and Q&A. “Sierra Leone is the country I hate to love.” The Cowfoot Prince follows Usifu Jalloh, a Sierra Leonean Storyteller, f...

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• Sat 14 Sep
• 105 minutes

As part of Hexham Abbey Festival we present a screening of The Red Shoes (1948) This Powell and Pressburger classic is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made and winner of two ...

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• Sun 22 Sep
• 135 minutes

Rewinding the Welfare State: A Social History of the North East on Film Local academic Dr Ben Lamb (Teesside University) joins us on 24 Sept to present short films and clips sourced from North Eas...

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• Tue 24 Sep
• 90 minutes

One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, with songs by Grant Olding Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Sho...

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• Thu 26 Sep
• 210 minutes

Roger Waters Us + Them Roger Waters, co-founder, creative force and songwriter behind Pink Floyd, presents his highly anticipated film, Us + Them, featuring state-of- the-art visual production and...

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• Wed 2 Oct
• 135 minutes

Dementia Friendly Screening of Oliver! (1968) There will be a 15 minute interval half way through the film. Charles Dickens' classic tale of a waif in 19th Century England comes alive brilliantl...

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• Thu 3 Oct
• 168 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA DON GIOVANNI Sung in Italian with English subtitles Sexual intrigue, jealousy, wit, anger… and retribution! The new Royal Opera Season begins with Mozart’s engaging masterpiece,...

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• Tue 8 Oct
• 210 minutes

Hailed as the UK’s most influential comedian of all time, legendary Scot Billy Connolly is coming to cinemas with this brilliant show from his final stand-up tour. Recorded in 2015 during the Australi...

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• Thu 10 Oct
• 130 minutes

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe o...

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• Thu 17 Oct
• 180 minutes

Join us on 23 Oct at 7:30pm for a lecture by renowned speaker and storyteller Rob Caskie . The North West Passage Triumph and Tragedy in the Arctic Ice For decades Britain, Europe and America w...

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• Wed 23 Oct
• 60 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA DON PASQUALE (NEW TO THE ROYAL OPERA) Sung in Italian with English subtitles Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of do...

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• Thu 24 Oct
• 150 minutes

RAYMONDA This event will be broadcast live via satellite. Music : Alexander Glazunov Choerography: Yuri Grigorovich (after Marius Petipa) Libretto Yuri Grigorovich (after Lidia Pashkova) Ca...

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• Sun 27 Oct
• 180 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET CONCERTO/ENIGMA VARIATIONS/RAYMONDA ACT III From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Marius Petipa, to the homegrown choreographers who put British ballet on the ...

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• Tue 5 Nov
• 180 minutes

Hansard by Simon Wood Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. See two-time Olivier Award winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and Alex Jennings (The Lady in th...

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• Thu 7 Nov
• 180 minutes

Dementia Friendly Screening of Singin' in the Rain (1952) There will be a 15 minute interval half way through the film. Working his way up from being a song and dance man to one of the top movie...

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• Thu 7 Nov
• 125 minutes

LE CORSAIRE This event is a recording of a live performance. Music: Adolphe Adam Choerography: Alexei Ratmansky Libretto Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier (edited by Mari...

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• Sun 17 Nov
• 210 minutes

In a world driven by greed, what do we truly value? Timon has it all – money, influence, friends. But when the money runs out, Timon soon finds her influence and friends have also gone. Left alone, sh...

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• Opening Wed 20 Nov
• 210 minutes

Present Laughter by Noël Coward Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour...

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• Thu 28 Nov
• 180 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET COPPÉLIA A classic returns to The Royal Ballet repertory with Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia – a story of love, mischief and mechanical dolls. The intricate choreo...

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• Tue 10 Dec
• 150 minutes

Dementia Friendly Screening of It's a Wonderful Life (1946) There will be a 15 minute interval half way through the film. After George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he had never been born, an an...

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• Fri 13 Dec
• 145 minutes

THE NUTCRACKER This event is a recording of a live performance. Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choerography Yuri Grigorovich Libretto Yuri Grigorovich (after E.T.A. Hoffmann and Marius Petipa...

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• Sun 15 Dec
• 150 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET SPECIAL SCREENING THE NUTCRACKER (RECORDED 2016) The Royal Ballet's glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an...

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• Tue 17 Dec
• 135 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET THE SLEEPING BEAUTY This production of The Sleeping Beauty has delighted audiences in Covent Garden since 1946. A classic of Russian ballet, it established The Royal Ballet both i...

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• Thu 16 Jan
• 180 minutes

GISELLE New production This event will be broadcast live via satellite. Music: Adolphe Adam Choerography: Alexei Ratmansky Libretto Théophile Gautier and Jean-Henry Saint-Georges Cast: The...

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• Sun 26 Jan
• 150 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA LA BOHÈME Sung in Italian with English subtitles Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyrical arias, celebratory choruse...

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• Wed 29 Jan
• 150 minutes

SWAN LAKE This event will be broadcast live via satellite. Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choerography: Yuri Grigorovich Libretto Yuri Grigorovich Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists an...

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• Sun 23 Feb
• 165 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET MARSTON & SCARLETT WORLD PREMIERES Choreographer Cathy Marston is previously an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and much in demand internat...

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• Tue 25 Feb
• 150 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA FIDELIO (NEW PRODUCTION) Sung in German with English subtitles Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted...

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• Tue 17 Mar
• 150 minutes

ROMEO AND JULIET This event is a recording of a live performance. Music: Sergei Prokofiev Choerography: Alexei Ratmansky Libretto Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Radlov and Adrian Piotrovsky (after W...

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• Sun 29 Mar
• 185 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET SWAN LAKE Liam Scarlett’s glorious production of Swan Lake, new in 2018, returns for its first revival. While remaining faithful to the Marius Petipa/Lev Ivanov text, Scarlett’s a...

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• Wed 1 Apr
• 180 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/ PAGLIACCI Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian...

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• Tue 21 Apr
• 180 minutes

JEWELS This event will be broadcast live via satellite. Music: Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choerography: George Balanchine Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists...

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• Sun 26 Apr
• 165 minutes

THE ROYAL BALLET THE DANTE PROJECT (WORLD PREMIERE) Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysti...

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• Thu 28 May
• 180 minutes

THE ROYAL OPERA ELEKTRA (NEW PRODUCTION) Sung in German with English subtitles Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director...

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• Thu 18 Jun
• 120 minutes