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.
Missed the live event? We schedule special Encore performances from some of the most-anticipated shows, following the initial screening.
André Rieu's White Christmas
3h 0m | PG
For many, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. This year it will come early with André Rieu’s cinema special White Christmas—a celebration you will never forget
Anselm + Recorded Q&A
2h 3m | PG
An experience like no other. Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time, shot in 3D and 6K-resolution
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder (+Live Performance by James Blunt)
1h 35m | 15
Join James Blunt on his chaotic world tour, in a hilarious documentary that's a cross between Spinal Tap and Alan Partridge.
NT Live 2023: The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage
2h 48m | 12A
Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Phillip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing
RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ
2h 49m | 15
Trafalgar Releasing is proud to present one of world’s biggest superstars Beyoncé in her latest film, coming to cinemas on 1 December. Known as "Queen Bey", she has been widely recognized for her boundary-pushing artistry, vocals, and performances.
Royal Ballet 2023/24 Season: The Nutcracker
2h 40m | 12A
Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else is tucked up in bed
A Christmas Carol
1h 21m | PG
Based on Charles Dickens’ own performance adaptation, Simon Callow and director Tom Cairns have created a one-man theatrical extravaganza of festive storytelling that is both heart-warming and deeply moving. A Christmas must see!
Berliner Philharmoniker LIVE: New Year’s Eve 2023
2h 35m
Kirill Petrenko: conductor Vida Mikneviciute: soprano Jonas Kaufmann: tenor Georg Zeppenfeld: bass Siegmund in Richard Wagner’s Walküre is a signature role for Jonas Kaufmann
Royal Opera 2023/24 Season: Rusalka
3h 48m | 12A
Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world – a world that does not love her back
National Theatre Live: Dear England
2h 40m
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
Royal Ballet 2023/24 Season: Manon
2h 45m
Manon’s brother Lescaut is offering her to the highest bidder when she meets Des Grieux and falls in love. They elope to Paris, but when Monsieur G.M. offers Manon a life of luxury as his mistress she can’t resist
National Theatre Live: Vanya
1h 50m
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
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: Painting the Modern Garden - Monet to Matisse
1h 33m | CTBA
Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone
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.
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
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: John Singer Sargent 2024
1h 30m | CTBA
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
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
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