Event Cinema, Oban Phoenix Cinema

Event Cinema

Theatre - Opera - Ballet

Experience live theatre, opera, and ballet as it happens on-screen from the comfort of your local cinema.
We screen productions from The National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and very soon we'll be showing productions from The Royal Opera House. 

David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
To Be Rescheduled.

In his 93 years on our planet, David Attenborough has visited every continent, explored hundreds of habitats and studied countless species – in his own words he has lived ‘a blessed life’. Throughout the decades David has spent bringing the natural world to the homes of audiences worldwide he has also played witness to the monumental scale of environmental change caused by human actions. ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET is David’s witness statement; for the first time sharing his views direct to his global audience and calling for mankind to urgently act on the truth many are starting to accept: that the time to save humanity and the planet that has fostered our development is now. After the film audiences around the world will hear from the great man himself live via satellite from the iconic Royal Albert Hall

RSC LIVE: The Winter's Tale
Wednesday 10th June 7pm

Set across a 16-year span from Mad Men to the moon landings, this new production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale imagines a world where the ghosts of fascist Europe collide with horrors of The Handmaid’s Tale, before washing up on a joyful seashore.

King Leontes rips his family apart with his jealousy but grief opens his heart. Will he find the child he abandoned before it is too late?

RSC LIVE: The Comedy of Errors
Wednesday 15th July 7pm

How do any of us really know who we are? A man arrives in a strange town only to find that everyone knows his name, but thinks he’s someone else. A woman wonders why her husband is not the man he was, but starts to rather like it. Confusion mounts as everyone uncouples from themselves. Will they ever find themselves again? And do they really want to?

Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, a fairytale farce of everyday miracles, mistaken identity and double vision, is directed by comedy master Phillip Breen.

André Rieu's 2020 Maastricht Concert: Happy Together
Saturday 1st August 7pm, Sunday 9th August 3pm

In 2019 André Rieu welcomed more than 100.000 people from 99 countries to his hometown Maastricht – more than ever before. The concerts are expected to sell out in record time, so ticket buyers need to be quick!

André Rieu's Summer Concerts – evenings full of dance, romance, humour and celebration not to be missed for all those who love to spend a great night with their families and loved ones!

RSC LIVE: Pericles
Wednesday 23rd September 7pm

Shakespeare’s touching and hopeful tale of loss and reconciliation located in a familiar world of precarious journeys.

Forced to flee his native land, Pericles becomes a refugee at the mercy of sea and strangers. Scarred by the heart-breaking loss of family and home, he submits to the rhythms of the ocean in the hope of a miracle. Located in a familiar world of precarious journeys and treacherous alliances, this is Shakespeare’s touching and hopeful tale of loss and reconciliation.
Director Blanche McIntyre returns to the RSC after her acclaimed Titus Andronicus (2017) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (2016).