A lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye, a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face th...

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• Tue 16 Jul
• 211 minutes

In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something isn’t quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable, and animals are acting strangely. No on...

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• Tue 16 Jul to Thu 18 Jul
• 105 minutes

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star in Nicolas Roeg’s brilliantly atmospheric adaptation of the short story by Daphne du Maurier . Following the death of their daughter, John and Laura Baxter tr...

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• Tue 16 Jul to Thu 18 Jul
• 105 minutes

Mike Leigh’s first feature film is a haunting, disturbing, yet often quietly funny study of a young woman’s isolation. Sylvia is trapped in a quiet suburban life, caring for her mentally ill sister Hi...

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• Wed 17 Jul
• 150 minutes

In this inspirational and affecting documentary, the great visual storyteller Agnès Varda shares her observations on cinema, art and life. In her final work, the award-winning filmmaker takes us on a ...

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• Fri 19 Jul to Thu 25 Jul
• 115 minutes

Ron Howard delivers a documentary celebrating the life of the beloved opera star Luciano Pavarotti, who sold over 100 million records in his lifetime. The 1990 World Cup in Italy was the moment ope...

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• Fri 19 Jul to Thu 25 Jul
• 114 minutes

To mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing! With enormous enthusiasm and unsinkable optimism, daredevil Gonzo steps into his first starring role in "Muppets From Space," a hilarious extraterr...

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• Sat 20 Jul
• 85 minutes

The electrifying team of Vittorio Grigolo and Diana Damrau reunites for a new production of Gounod’s opera based on the Shakespeare play. Damrau makes her role debut as Juliette in Bartlett Sher’s new...

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• Sun 21 Jul
• 171 minutes

Welcome to the singing and dancing world of "Grease," the most successful movie musical of all time! During a 1950's summer, good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fall in love until Sandy has to return...

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• Sun 21 Jul
• 111 minutes

It’s back – the jewel in Pixar’s crown and the story that changed cinema forever. The adventures of Woody, Buzz and the gang continue in another rollercoaster of a movie, which promises to pull on the...

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• Mon 22 Jul to Fri 26 Jul
• 100 minutes

British award-winning documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Whitney: Can I Be Me) returns to the Greek island of Hydra, where, back in 1968, he met and befriended Leonard Cohen’s Norwegian lover and ...

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• Tue 23 Jul
• 130 minutes

The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini , adapted by Ben Power and directed by Sam Mendes . The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening. Ac...

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• Thu 25 Jul
• 220 minutes

A young mole must try to achieve his impossible dream of becoming a footballer in order to save his hometown gold mine from a greedy super villain known only as `The Boss'. As with all of our Kids ...

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• Sat 27 Jul
• 101 minutes

From the 2013–14 season Franco Zeffirelli's picturesque staging, an audience favorite for more than 30 years, features a winning young cast, including soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Vittorio Grig...

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• Sun 28 Jul
• 140 minutes

Packed with irreverence and subversive humour, the animated story of the secret lives of pets continues with new challenges for Max, Gidget, Snowball and the gang to contend with. For terrier Max, it’...

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• Mon 29 Jul to Thu 1 Aug
• 86 minutes

Jerry Mulligan is an American ex-GI who stays in post-war Paris to become a painter, and falls for the gamine charms of Lise Bouvier. However, his paintings come to the attention of Milo Roberts, a ri...

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• Tue 30 Jul
• 143 minutes

"To whom should I complain?" When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for help. W...

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• Wed 31 Jul
• 180 minutes

At the age of 91, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, probably the most popular (and unlikeliest) sex therapist in the world, is as busy as she has ever been. The tiny woman who started her career as a sought-after ...

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• Thu 1 Aug
• 100 minutes

Ace detective Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son, Tim, to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry's former Pokémon partner, wise-cracking, ador...

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• Sat 3 Aug
• 104 minutes

"A rarely seen gem from the archives of the Czech Republic, Tonka of the Gallows fuses German chiaroscuro aesthetics with the Soviet flare for surprising angles for this affective parable of the cruel...

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• Sun 4 Aug
• 83 minutes

Mozart’s most magical comedy of The Magic Flute returns to Glyndebourne for the first time in over a decade. This new production by the renowned directing/design duo Barbe & Douce promises to take a f...

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• Sun 4 Aug
• 210 minutes

A beloved tale soars to new heights in a dazzling live-action reimagining of the classic 1941 animation Dumbo , directed by the visionary Tim Burton. Eccentric circus owner Max Medici (DeVito) enli...

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• Sat 10 Aug
• 112 minutes

Aladdin is a lovable street urchin who meets Princess Jasmine, the beautiful daughter of the sultan of Agrabah. While visiting her exotic palace, Aladdin stumbles upon a magic oil lamp that unleashes ...

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• Mon 12 Aug to Fri 16 Aug
• 128 minutes

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long... Gaston, the scion of a wealthy ...

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• Tue 13 Aug
• 145 minutes

Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now in its 40th year presents a new, never-before-seen restored version of the film. The new film Apocalypse Now Final Cut , has been remastered in 4K Ultra HD. A...

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• Tue 13 Aug
• 183 minutes

Join Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Zuma, Rubble and Skye on their new mission. When Mayor Humdinger’s nephew Harold accidentally diverts a meteor to hit Adventure Bay, the tech-savvy Ryder and the pups are ...

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• Sat 17 Aug
• 70 minutes

National Theatre Live Small Island adapted by Helen Edmundson based on the novel by Andrea Levy Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adapt...

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• Mon 19 Aug
• 200 minutes

From the 2006–07 season Rossini's madcap comedy receives a spirited production by Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher and stars mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, tenor Juan Diego Flórez, and barito...

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• Sun 25 Aug
• 185 minutes

Eye-poppingly realistic CGI brings to life Disney’s cherished animation about a lion cub’s brave journey from pride outcast to proud king. Jon Favreau’s immersive vision gathers a majestic cast on the...

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• Mon 26 Aug to Fri 30 Aug
• 120 minutes

Gene Kelly , Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor star in Singin' in the Rain , one of the greatest and most successful musicals ever filmed - filled with memorable songs, lavish routines and Kelly's f...

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• Tue 27 Aug
• 133 minutes

From the 2018–19 season Soprano Anna Netrebko and mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili offer blazing performances in Verdi's grand drama of ancient Egypt, seen in a stunning production by Sonja Frisell...

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• Sun 1 Sep
• 180 minutes

On Tuesday 10 September, Fane Productions present an evening with the Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor Margaret Atwood to mark the release of The Testaments, Atwood’s highly antic...

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• Tue 10 Sep
• 110 minutes

Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden , the hilarious West End and Broadway hit One Man, Two Guvnors returns to cinemas to mark National Theatre ...

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• Thu 26 Sep to Sun 29 Sep
• 210 minutes

Sexual intrigue, jealousy, wit, anger... and retribution! The new Royal Opera Season begins with Mozart’s engaging masterpiece, which follows Don Giovanni, the women he serially seduces, and the venge...

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• Tue 8 Oct
• 240 minutes

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated production of Turandot, which stars Christine Goerke in the title role of the icy Chinese princess who has renounced a...

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• Sat 12 Oct to Mon 14 Oct
• 240 minutes

'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 of actors trying to rehearse a play. As their dispute ...

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• Thu 17 Oct
• 180 minutes

Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of domestic drama across two generations. The witty story of a middle-aged man whose supposed young wife ...

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• Thu 24 Oct
• 180 minutes

Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier...

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• Sat 26 Oct to Mon 28 Oct
• 240 minutes

Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and known by the code name Oyneg Shabes, a clandestine group of journalists, scholars, and community leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto vowed to defeat Nazi lies and pro...

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• Sun 27 Oct
• 95 minutes

Raymondais betrothed to Jean de Brienne, a gallant knight who pledged to go on a crusade led by the King of Hungary. When her beloved leaves, Abderakhman, a foreign knight, makes a bid for the hand o...

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• Sun 27 Oct
• 240 minutes

From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Marius Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers who put British ballet on the world stage, this mixed programme highlights the versatility of ...

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• Tue 5 Nov
• 180 minutes

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 the Van, The Queen), in t...

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• Thu 7 Nov
• 180 minutes

Hui He stars as the devoted geisha who gives everything for the American naval officer, sung by Andrea Carè. Plácido Domingo adds another role to his remarkable repertoire, singing Sharpless for the ...

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• Sat 9 Nov to Mon 11 Nov
• 240 minutes

On the bazaar square of Andrinopolis, the Pachais struck by the beauty of Medora and tries to buy her, but the lovely young woman is not for sale. As the transaction is about to come to a close, Medor...

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• Sun 17 Nov
• 240 minutes

Phelim McDermott returns to the Met with a new staging of Glass’s Akhnaten, originally created by LA Opera, Improbable, and English National Opera, where it premiered, winning the 2017 Olivier Awar...

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• Sat 23 Nov to Sun 24 Nov
• 240 minutes

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, star actor Garry Essendine’s colou...

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• Thu 28 Nov
• 180 minutes

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 choreography is set to Delibes’ deli...

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• Tue 10 Dec
• 180 minutes

The Royal Ballet's glorious production of The Nutcracker, created by Peter Wright in 1984, is the production par excellence of an all-time ballet favourite. It is Christmas Eve and Herr Drosselmeyer t...

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• Tue 17 Dec
• 150 minutes

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s expressionistic masterpiece Wozzeck, regarded for its intense emotional power and brilliant score as one of the mos...

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• Sat 11 Jan to Sun 12 Jan
• 240 minutes

The young peasant girl Giselle dies when she learns that the man she loves, Albrecht, has betrayed her. Against her own will, she joins the Wilis, vengeful spirits of jilted brides who condemn Albrech...

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• Sun 26 Jan
• 240 minutes

Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, including lyricalarias, celebratory choruses for Act II’s evocation of Christmas Eve in the Latin Quarter and a poig...

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• Wed 29 Jan
• 180 minutes

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new co-production with English National Opera and Dutch National Opera, hailed as a triumph at its premiere in Lond...

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• Sat 1 Feb to Sun 2 Feb
• 240 minutes

Prince Siegfried is summoned by his parents to choose a bride. However, he encounters a mysterious swan-woman by the lake, Odette, and is captivated by her. His vow of eternal love to her will have ir...

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• Sun 23 Feb
• 240 minutes

Choreographer Cathy Marston is previously an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Roya...

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• Tue 25 Feb
• 180 minutes

In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell...

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• Sat 29 Feb to Sun 1 Mar
• 240 minutes

For the first time at the Met, Sir Bryn Terfel sings the role of the mysterious Dutchman, condemned to roam the seas for eternity, with Anja Kampe as the devoted Senta, whose love can set him free.

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• Sat 14 Mar to Sun 15 Mar
• 240 minutes

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise D...

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• Tue 17 Mar
• 180 minutes

In spite of each of their families being merciless enemies, Romeo and Juliet are deeply in love. The rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues will cost Mercutio’s life, causing Romeo a desire of...

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• Sun 29 Mar
• 240 minutes

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 additional choreography and John...

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• Wed 1 Apr
• 180 minutes

Sir David McVicar’s bold staging of Puccini’s operatic thriller returns with star soprano Anna Netrebko as the passionate title diva, opposite Brian Jagde as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Ca...

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• Sat 11 Apr to Sun 12 Apr
• 240 minutes

This opulent triptych was inspired by Balanchine’s visit to the famous jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels on New York’s Fifth Avenue, celebrating the cities and dance schools of Paris, New York and St. Peters...

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• Sun 19 Apr
• 240 minutes

Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt. The award-winning production by Dam...

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• Tue 21 Apr
• 180 minutes

Donizetti’s drama, focused on the political and personal rivalry between two queens, returns to the Met with Diana Damrau as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, and Jamie Barton as her rival, Queen Eliza...

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• Sat 9 May to Sun 10 May
• 240 minutes

Dante’s Divine Comedy is an epic journey through the afterlife: it encompasses the horrifying drama of Inferno and its damned, the lyrical mysticism of pilgrims on mount Purgatorio and the dazzling sp...

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• Thu 28 May
• 180 minutes

Strauss’s thrilling and audacious adaptation of Greek tragedy receives a new staging by the award-winning director Christof Loy. This uncompromising opera, about a daughter intent on bloody revenge an...

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• Thu 18 Jun
• 120 minutes