This summer, the Apollo Theatre will be hosting a week of screenings ending in screaming!

Between Monday 20 July and Saturday 25 July you can catch a classic film every day at 2.00pm.  Cinema changed radically between 1942 and 1964. This curated film festival tracks that evolution across six consecutive afternoons. Viewers can watch Hollywood romance dissolve into post-war cynicism, before transforming into sharp British satire and American absurdity.

Come along for a journey through the changing soul of mid-century filmmaking.  Viewers can watch Hollywood romance dissolve into post-war cynicism, before transforming into sharp British satire and American absurdity: from hope to dark satire, the films reveal a clear historical shift in just over twenty years. Filmmakers stopped looking at global crises with earnest heroism and started using dark, brilliant laughter to survive them. One thing for sure, the retrospective celebrates the exact era when cinema grew up, got cynical, and became wildly subversive.

There’s a special treat on Thursday 23rd at 7pm as we will be screening Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. Check out our Screenings page.

And to finish off the week, at 7.30 on Saturday evening, 25 July, dress up in your most outrageous costumes and come along to an interactive screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Experience the magic of Mozart’s brilliant comedy on the big screen. The Apollo Theatre in Newport invites you to a special screening of the Royal Opera House’s acclaimed 2022 production of Le Nozze di Figaro.

• Date: Thursday 23 July
• Time: 7.00pm
• Venue: Apollo Theatre, Newport
• Featuring: World-class cast, stunning period costumes, and unforgettable music
• Run time: 184 minutes

Treat yourself to an evening of romance, wit, and beautiful harmonies. Tickets are selling fast. Book your seats today at the box office or online.

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is Mozart’s supreme comic masterpiece. This screening brings you the Royal Opera House’s acclaimed 2022 revival. Director David McVicar sets the action in 1830s France on the eve of revolution. The production balances sparkling wit with sharp social commentary on class and gender power dynamics.

Conductor Antonio Pappano leads a world-class ensemble cast through Mozart’s breathtaking score. The story packs deception, disguise, and desire into one chaotic, unforgettable day. It remains one of the funniest, smartest, and most moving experiences in all of opera.

For the few of you out there unfamiliar with this film, on a wild and rain-swept late-November evening, somewhere at an empty stretch of road outside Ohio’s merry Denton, blissfully-affianced, prudish, boringly-innocent young pair Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) find themselves stranded on their way to visit an ex-tutor. Instead, the couple will inadvertently unearth the cross-dressing Dr Frank-N-Furter’s (Tim Curry’s) spooky lair of inexhaustible oddities, just in time to partake in the out-of-this-world mad scientist’s proud unveiling of his latest, delightfully extravagant, most daring creation: the ultimate male and the perfect sex symbol: the flaxen-haired Rocky Horror (Peter Hinwood). But, little by little, as the effervescent transgressive force gobbles up whole the unsuspecting visitors of the night, Brad and Janet slowly begin to embrace the potent fascinations of seduction, while an idolized Rocky roams free in the mansion. Who can interrupt man’s union with the absolute pleasure?

Make what you like of that … but make sure you come to the showing appropriately dressed and ready to join in the madness!

Gift vouchers are priced at £12 each which is our normal ticket price for adults. They can only be purchased singly, so if you need 2 or more you may need to repeat the purchase – it’s a quirk of the Ticketsource system, sorry.

Ignore the date given. That is for internal use only as our vouchers do not have a use by date.

Vouchers can be exchanged for a performance in one of 3 ways:
1) email boxoffice@apollo-theatre.org.uk giving your name and preferred performance
2) by turning up in person at our box office which is usually open every Saturday 10.30 to 12.30 and 45 minutes before each performance
3) by calling 01983 210010 and leaving your requirements, including your email. Someone will confirm your booking for you.

In all instances please quote your voucher reference.
Vouchers are only valid for Apollo Theatre performances and not valid for visiting performers.
Vouchers are valid indefinitely and have no “use by” date.

Lovesong is a tender and quietly powerful play by Abi Morgan that traces a marriage across decades, revealing how love evolves, deepens and endures over time. Moving fluidly between youth and later years, the play places two versions of a couple side by side, allowing past and present to unfold simultaneously on stage.

Please note that the Saturday 5th performance is an invitation only event.

An adaptation of the Jungle Book by our Apollo Youth Theatre. Bringing to life some of Kiplings’ jungle stories in a colourful and artistic way.

The Jungle Book is a classic collection of stories written by English author Rudyard Kipling and first published in 1894. Most of the tales focus on Mowgli, an orphaned “man-cub” raised by wolves in the Seoni region of India. The work uses animal fables to explore moral lessons, identity, and the delicate balance between civilisation and nature