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Opened in 1959 and now a Soho institution, this three-screen independent cinema runs a vibrant program of first-run arthouse and mainstream films, along with a highly engaging calendar of director talks, Q&As, film festival events, and other offerings. The first-floor mezzanine bar is great for a quiet drink, even when Soho's Shaftesbury Avenue is crowded with people. There are other equally historic and wonderful Curzon cinemas in Mayfair, Bloomsbury, and Victoria.
This quirky two-screen repertory film theater just north of Leicester Square and on the lower reaches of Chinatown offers you a chance to catch up with indie arthouse films, documentaries, and even classic blockbusters that you may have missed. A second screen upstairs shows newer movies at more typical West End prices. With 300 velvet seats, this is where London's "Singalong Screenings" took off; come in character and sing along to the likes of The Sound of Music, Grease, Dirty Dancing, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Greatest Showman, and other cult singalong classics.
This popular playhouse is devoted to finding, commissioning, and fostering new work and talent, and therefore is a prolific presenter of plays and performances by young, emerging, and newly established playwrights. With three performance spaces, it also puts on its fair share of comedy, cabaret, drag, and dance shows, and so, unsurprisingly, the bar is always full.
