From Stage to Screen
From sold-out gigs and exhibitions, world-class theatre, dance and opera, to the year’s hottest sporting events; we show a range of Event Cinema at The Light. Settle into the best seat in the house and enjoy crystal-clear pictures and stunning surround sound for your favourite shows. Explore what's coming up in From Stage to Screen below.
Missed the live event? We schedule special Encore performances from some of the most-anticipated shows, following the initial screening.
Royal Opera 2023/24 Season: Madama Butterfly
2h 45m
Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return.
National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue
3h 0m | 15
Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play.
Royal Ballet 2023/24 Season: Macmillan Celebrated
2h 45m | 12A
Danses Concertantes, commissioned by Ninette de Valois in 1955, was MacMillan’s first major work
National Theatre Live: Dear England
2h 40m | 15
Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: John Singer Sargent 2024
1h 30m | PG
John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience
An American in Paris The Musical
2h 35m | PG
This breathtakingly beautiful Tony Award-winning Broadway musical inspired by the Oscar winning MGM film, tells the impassioned story of discovering love in the ‘City of Light’. Jerry Mulligan is an American GI striving to make it as a painter in a city
National Theatre Live: Nye
2h 40m | 15
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS
Royal Ballet 2023/24 Season: Swan Lake
3h 0m
Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. When one of the swans turns into a beautiful woman, Odette, he is enraptured. But she is under a spell that holds her captive, allowing her to regain her human form only at night...
Royal Opera 2023/24 Season: Carmen
3h 10m
Carmen declares that any man she loves should beware. However, even she is unprepared for what will happen when she decides to seduce Don José, an army corporal who initially appears uninterested in her charms
Macbeth: Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma
2h 30m | CTBA
A unique opportunity to enjoy this unique and critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma. Once you cross the line, you can never turn back.
National Theatre Live: Vanya
1h 50m | 15
Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya
42nd Street The Musical
2h 24m | PG
42nd Street, the legendary Broadway musical theatre classic, is a ‘glorious’ (Express) and ‘utterly moreish extravaganza of glitz’ (Times). Featuring Bonnie Langford.
Royal Ballet 2023/24 Season: The Winter's Tale
3h 0m | 12A
Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late romance The Winter’s Tale for The Royal Ballet in 2014
Royal Opera 2023/24 Season: Message In A Bottle
1h 30m | 12A
The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations.?Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever.?Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: My National Gallery 2024
1h 30m
The National Gallery of London is one of the world’s greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless resource of history, an endless source of stories
Royal Opera 2023/24 Season: Andrea Chénier
2h 40m | 12A
At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI