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NT Live/ Cyrano de Bergerac (15)

Last session: Sat 14 Mar 2020 at 12.45

James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live...

ROH Live/ La Bohème (12A)

Last session: Wed 29 Jan 2020 at 19.30

Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, lyrical arias and a poignant...

ROH Live/ The Sleeping Beauty (12A)

Last session: Sun 19 Jan 2020 at 13.45

This production of The Sleeping Beauty has been delighting audiences in Covent Garden since 1946.

ROH Live/ Coppélia (12A)

Last session: Tue 10 Dec 2019 at 19.00

Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia is a story of love, mischief and mechanical dolls.

NT Live/ Present Laughter (12A)

Last session: Thu 28 Nov 2019 at 18.45

Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter.

NT Live/ Hansard (12A)

Last session: Thu 7 Nov 2019 at 18.45

See two-time Olivier Award winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and Alex Jennings (The Lady in the Van,...

NT Live/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Last session: Thu 17 Oct 2019 at 18.45

A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe...

ROH Live/ Don Giovanni (12A)

Last session: Wed 16 Oct 2019 at 19.00

Mozart’s engaging masterpiece follows Don Giovanni, the women he serially seduces, and the vengeance that finally catches up...

NT Live/ Fleabag (15)

Last session: Mon 30 Sep 2019 at 20.00

See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag,broadcast live to cinemas from...

NT Live/ One Man, Two Guvnors (Encore) (12A)

Last session: Thu 26 Sep 2019 at 18.45

Based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, with songs by Grant Olding and featuring a...

RSC Live/ Measure for Measure (Live)

Last session: Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 18.45

When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from...

NT Live/ The Lehman Trilogy (12A)

Last session: Thu 25 Jul 2019 at 18.45

The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a...

NT Live/ Small Island (12A)

Last session: Thu 27 Jun 2019 at 18.45

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation.

NT Live/ All About Eve (12A)

Last session: Mon 17 Jun 2019 at 20.20

Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world's...

ROH Live/ Romeo & Juliet (12A)

Last session: Tue 11 Jun 2019 at 19.00

Since its 1965 premiere with The Royal Ballet, Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet has become a modern ballet...

RSC Live/ The Taming of the Shrew (Live)

Last session: Wed 5 Jun 2019 at 18.45

In a re-imagined 1590, England is a matriarchy. Baptista Minola is seeking to sell off her son Katherine...

NT Live/ All My Sons (12A)

Last session: Tue 14 May 2019 at 18.45

Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and...

ROH Live/ Faust (12A)

Last session: Tue 30 Apr 2019 at 18.30

Experience the decadence and elegance of 1870s Paris in David McVicar’s spectacular production of Gounod’s best-loved opera.

RSC Live/ As You Like It (Live)

Last session: Wed 17 Apr 2019 at 18.45

Director Kimberley Sykes (Dido, Queen of Carthage) directs a riotous, exhilarating version of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy.

ROH Live/ La forza del destino (12A)

Last session: Tue 2 Apr 2019 at 18.00

Leonora falls in love with Don Alvaro, but when her father forbids their marriage, a fatal accident triggers...

The Music Center Presents Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration (12A)

Last session: Thu 21 Mar 2019 at 20.20

Join an incredible array of singers and musicians who came together to honor one of the world’s most...

ROH Live/ Don Quixote (12A)

Last session: Tue 19 Feb 2019 at 19.00

Love and friendship triumph in Carlos Acosta’s vibrant production of this dazzling ballet. Cervantes’s story of the bumbling...

NT Live/ I’m Not Running (12A)

Last session: Thu 31 Jan 2019 at 18.45

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast...

ROH Live/ La traviata (12A)

Last session: Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 18.30

Richard Eyre’s beautiful production provides the perfect setting for Verdi’s opera about a courtesan who sacrifices all for...

ROH Live/ The Queen of Spades (12A)

Last session: Tue 22 Jan 2019 at 18.30

Tchaikovsky’s most ambitious opera contains some of his greatest music and is a powerful study of destructive obsession.

NT Live/ The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (12A)

Last session: Tue 15 Jan 2019 at 18.45

Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in...

NT Live/ Antony & Cleopatra (12A)

Last session: Thu 6 Dec 2018 at 18.45

Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his...

ROH Live/ The Nutcracker (12A)

Last session: Mon 3 Dec 2018 at 19.00

A Christmas treat for the whole family and a classic with a special place in the hearts of...

RSC Live/ Troilus & Cressida (12A)

Last session: Sat 17 Nov 2018 at 13.00

Virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie collaborates with RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran to create a satirical futuristic vision of...

ROH Live/ Die Walküre (12A)

Last session: Sun 4 Nov 2018 at 17.00

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is the second opera in the cycle, and features several of the Ring’s musical...

NT Live/ Allelujah! (15)

Last session: Thu 1 Nov 2018 at 18.45

Alan Bennett’s celebrated plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George...

NT Live/ King Lear (As Live) (12A)

Last session: Thu 27 Sep 2018 at 18.45

Broadcast live from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear.

RSC Live: The Merry Wives of Windsor (12A)

Last session: Wed 12 Sep 2018 at 18.45

Down on his luck in the suburbs, John Falstaff plans to hustle his way to a comfortable retirement...

NT Live/ Julie (As Live) (12A)

Last session: Thu 6 Sep 2018 at 18.45

This new version of August Strinberg’s play Miss Julie, written by Polly Stenham, remains shocking and fiercely relevant...

RSC Live: Romeo & Juliet (12A)

Last session: Wed 18 Jul 2018 at 18.45

Romeo and Juliet is about a generation of young people born into violence and ripped apart by the...

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (12A)

Last session: Thu 5 Jul 2018 at 19.20

Inspired by a true story, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is the new award-winning five-star hit musical for today...

Live (recorded) Broadcast: An American in Paris – The Musical (Captured Live)

Last session: Wed 16 May 2018 at 19.50

This breathtakingly beautiful Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, inspired by the Oscar winning MGM film, tells the impassioned story of discovering love...

RSC Live: Macbeth (12A)

Last session: Wed 11 Apr 2018 at 18.45

This contemporary production of Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of...

ROH Live: Macbeth (Live)

Last session: Wed 4 Apr 2018 at 19.00

Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of...

NT Live: Julius Caesar (15)

Last session: Thu 22 Mar 2018 at 18.45

Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that...

ROH Live: Carmen (Live)

Last session: Tue 6 Mar 2018 at 18.30

Carmen is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in...

NT Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (15)

Last session: Thu 22 Feb 2018 at 18.45

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s...

RSC Live: Twelfth Night (Live)

Last session: Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 18.45

Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Two twins are separated in a shipwreck,...

ROH Live: Tosca (Live)

Last session: Wed 7 Feb 2018 at 19.00

Tosca is one of the great evenings of opera, and from its strident opening chords conjures up a...

ROH Live: Rigoletto (Live)

Last session: Tue 16 Jan 2018 at 19.00

The corruption of innocence is at the heart of Verdi’s potent tragedy in David McVicar’s production for The...

Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami – Live with Friends (via Live Stream) (15)

Last session: Wed 25 Oct 2017 at 19.00

A thrilling and enlightening evening with inimitable icon Grace Jones, discussing her life and work with some of...

Sofia Coppola’s La Traviata (12A)

Last session: Sun 9 Jul 2017 at 17.00

A collaboration between American filmmaker Sofia Coppola and Italian haute couture king Valentino Garavani comes in the form...

Met Opera Live: Der Rosenkavalier (Live)

Last session: Sat 13 May 2017 at 17.15

Renée Fleming and Elīna Garanča star in Strauss’s grandest opera, in this new production which places the action...

Met Opera Live: Eugene Onegin (Live)

Last session: Sat 22 Apr 2017 at 17.40

Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah Warner’s moving production,...

Met Opera Live: Idomeneo (Live)

Last session: Sat 25 Mar 2017 at 16.40

Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece returns to the Met in the classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production, conducted by James Levine.

Met Opera Live: La Traviata (Live)

Last session: Sat 11 Mar 2017 at 17.40

Sonya Yoncheva sings one of opera’s most beloved heroines, the tragic courtesan Violetta, opposite Michael Fabiano as her...

Met Opera Live: Rusalka (Live)

Last session: Sat 25 Feb 2017 at 17.40

Director Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Dvořák’s fairytale of love and longing, rejection and redemption...

Met Opera Live: Roméo et Juliette (Live)

Last session: Sat 21 Jan 2017 at 17.40

Bartlett Sher’s new production of Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation has won acclaim for its vivid 18th century milieu and stunning...

Met Opera Live: Nabucco (Live)

Last session: Sat 7 Jan 2017 at 17.40

The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime...

Met Opera Live: L’Amour de Loin (Live)

Last session: Sat 10 Dec 2016 at 17.40

Kaija Saariaho’s breakthrough opera has its Metropolitan Opera premiere in a dazzling new production with Eric Owens as the...

Met Opera Live: Don Giovani (Live)

Last session: Sat 22 Oct 2016 at 17.40

The charismatic baritone Simon Keenlyside plays the title hero, opera’s ultimate cad, who goes to hell in a...

Met Opera Live: Tristan und Isolde (Live)

Last session: Sat 8 Oct 2016 at 16.45

Opening the new Met Opera Live season, Tristan und Isolde features a cast of outstanding Wagnerians: Nina Stemme as Isolde,...

Met Opera Live: Elektra (Live)

Last session: Sat 30 Apr 2016 at 17.40

The genius director Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra...

Met Opera Live: Roberto Devereux (Live)

Last session: Sat 16 Apr 2016 at 17.40

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky takes on the extraordinary challenge of singing all three of Donizetti’s Tudor queens in the...

Met Opera Live: Madame Butterfly (Live)

Last session: Sat 2 Apr 2016 at 17.40

Anthony Minghella's breathtaking production has thrilled audiences ever since its premiere in 2006. Kristine Opolais reprises her acclaimed...

The Railway Children (As Live) (U)

Last session: Mon 28 Mar 2016 at 11.30

This live adaptation of E. Nesbit’s The Railway Children follows Roberta, Phyllis and Peter, three siblings whose lives...

Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man (12A)

Last session: Sun 13 Mar 2016 at 15.30

A sensational new dance event for cinemas from the internationally acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne and his dance company...

Met Opera Live: Manon Lescaut (Live)

Last session: Sat 5 Mar 2016 at 17.40

The Met stage ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Puccini’s obsessive love...

Met Opera Live: Turandot (Live)

Last session: Sat 30 Jan 2016 at 17.40

Christine Goerke, Lise Lindstrom, and Nina Stemme, three of opera’s greatest dramatic sopranos, take turns in the title...

Met Opera Live : Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Live)

Last session: Sat 16 Jan 2016 at 17.40

Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing set in the Far East returns to the Met stage for...

Exhibitions on Screen/ Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood (Live)

Last session: Tue 1 Dec 2015 at 18.30

Francisco Goya is Spain’s most celebrated artist and considered the father of modern art. Not only a brilliant...

Met Opera Live: Lulu (Live)

Last session: Sat 21 Nov 2015 at 17.15

Acclaimed artist and director William Kentridge (The Nose) applies his unique theatrical vision to Berg’s notorious femme fatale...

Met Opera Live: Tannhäuser (Live)

Last session: Sat 31 Oct 2015 at 15.45

James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a...

Met Opera Live: Otello (Live)

Last session: Sat 17 Oct 2015 at 17.40

The Met season continues with Verdi’s masterful Otello, inspired by Shakespeare’s play and matching it in tragic intensity....

Live: The Importance Of Being Earnest (Live)

Last session: Thu 8 Oct 2015 at 19.00

Don’t miss Olivier Award winner and Poirot star David Suchet as the formidable Lady Bracknell in the LIVE...

Met Opera Live: Il Trovatore (Live)

Last session: Sat 3 Oct 2015 at 17.40

Soprano Anna Netrebko’s dramatic and vocal skills are on full display in her next new role at the...

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