Broadbent Cinema

A Streetcar Named Desire

Friday, 6th June 2025 – 7pm Please note new start time – 7pm A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams  directed by Benedict Andrews Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas. As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to […]

Inter Alia

26th September 2025, 7pm Please note new start time 7pm Inter Alia a new play by Suzie Miller Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a […]

Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangeloveco-adapted by Armando Iannuccico-adapted and directed by Sean Foley Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack, is led by a world-renowned creative team including Emmy Award-winner […]

The importance of being Earnest

The Importance of being Earnest – 21st February 2025, 7:30pm National Theatre Live 2025 by Oscar Wilde directed by Max Webster  Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the […]

The Polar Express

Get up, get on, and get ready for the ride of your life! It’s Christmas Eve, and you’re about to roller-coaster up and down mountains, slip-slide over ice fields, teeter across mile-high bridges and be served hot chocolate by singing waiters more astonishing than any you can imagine. You’re on The Polar Express! Tom Hanks […]

Prima Facie

National Theatre Live present the Empire Street Production ofPrima Facie  Wednesday 27th November 2024, 7:30pmBBFC Certificate: 15Running Time: 114 mins written by Suzie Millerdirected by Justin Martin  Jodie Comer’s (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas.  Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working […]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure…

Present Laughter

As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching.

Nye

A new play by Tim PriceDirected by Rufus Norris 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.  Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from […]

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

When Harold learns his friend Queenie is dying, he is moved to act. He leaves home, walking to the post box to send her a letter, until he realises a letter is not enough. In that moment Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice.

The Motive and The Cue

A new play by Jack ThorneDirected by Sam Mendes Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynnas Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play.1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in anexperimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s […]

Vanya

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.
Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.

Dear England

Gareth Southgate has brought hope back to the England squad but with the nation’s expectations upon his shoulders, what happens when football doesn’t come home?

Frozen: Sing-a-long

Come and join us at The Broadbent for an afternoon of fun as we sing along to Disney’s Frozen showing on the big screen. Snow Queen Elsa inadvertently uses her power to make her kingdom experience constant wintriness. Her sister Anna teams up with mountaineer Kristoff and his reindeer to demolish the snowy spell. The […]

Skylight

Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy feature in this Olivier-award winning production of David Hare’s hard-hitting tale of love, passion and ideology, directed by Stephen Daldry.

Mamma Mia!

Our first general issue movie. Come and join us while we whisk you away from cold, wet, Wickenby to the Greek island of Kalokairi, for our ultimate feel-good movie, Mamma Mia! Have a beverage from The Bent Broad (our very reasonably priced licensed bar), close your eyes, any you’re there! The story of a bride-to-be […]

Fleabag

LAST CHANCE TO SEE Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Following a box-office record-breaking run in cinemas in 2019, the one-woman show returns to cinemas to the big screen this summer.  Fleabag may seem oversexed, […]