| Status: | Active, not currently accepting new members |
| Leader: | |
| When: | Maureen - your group leder will publish dates and times of upcoming visits on WhatsApp |
| Venue: | Various |
| Cost: | Purchase tickets as required |
The Theatre and Cinema Group is for anyone who is interested in visits to the theatre and cinema. We visit theatres in Glasgow and surrounding area for productions of plays, musicals, opera, live streaming etc. We also visit cinemas to see a wide range of films.
The Group uses WhatsApp to let you know which performances we are planning to see. Each member buys their own ticket and where there are numbered seats, we share our seat numbers on WhatsApp so that we can book beside each other. We also arrange to meet up before and/or afterward whichever works best.
If you are not already on WhatsApp download the App and share your mobile number so that you can be added to the group. If anyone needs a bit of help with this, contact the Group Leader, Maureen Douglass.
CINEMA
2026
May - Stand and Deliver - Lee Jeans
March - ‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’ at Glasgow Film Theatre
February - “H is for Hawk” starring Claire Foy
January - "Monty Supreme" starring Timothee Chalamet
Earlier
November - "Jay Kelli" starring George Cluny
October - ‘House of Dynamite” starring Idris Elba
Theatre
2026
March - "Piaf" written and sung by Christine Bovill
February - The Tron Theatre “The Events”
Earlier
January - Opera "La Traviata" live stream from the Royal Opera House
December - Panto - Oran Mhor
November - Ballet -"La fille mal garde" - Eastwood Park Theatre
October - Citizen’s Theatre "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.
September - Tron Theatre - "Black Hole Sign"
July - Pitlochry "Sunshine on Leith and the Oran Mor Panto
June - Tramway Theatre ‘Keli’, - National Theatre of Scotland (with Brass Band)
May - Eastwood Park Theatre - "Everyone’s Talking 'bout Jamie"
March - Tron Theatre – “The View from the Bridge” Arthur Miller
February - Eastwoood Park Theatre - “The Testament of Gideon Mack” and “Les Misérables”
By the time you read this a group of us will have gone to Pitlochry Theatre to see a matinee performance of The Sound of Music with a festive meal at the Theatre before the show starts. A lovely day out to brighten up November. Report just in “Everythin worked beautifully, the show was brilliant, and the lunch very good, to say nothing of the bus!
December wouldn’t be complete without seeing a Panto, the Theatre Group went to see the Oran Mor Panto. It’s the same format as the Play Pie and Pint so we get 'lunch' included. very enjoyable (with lots of adult humour).
Cinema
Our September film was ‘Islands’ a contemporary thriller with echoes of Hitchcock. Interesting but more thought provoking than exciting with mixed comments amongst our group, it definitely had us.
In August we went to see the film “Eddington” - difficult to describe. Would we recommend it? That is a definite no but it was intriguing and trying to make sense of it got us all talking and that is good for any film!
At the end of June it was a 50th Anniversary film – “Dog Day Afternoon” Al Pacino in one of his best performances —Brilliant!
In May a group of us went to see ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ at the GFT, very difficult to describe, so wacky, off the wall. We came out at the end saying “Wow, what just happened?” Could we recommend it? Not sure.
Our April outing was to the Glasgow Film Festival to see “Mr Burton” – a really interesting film following the early career of Richard Burton. Excellent acting and a strong straightforward well told story, a bit of a nostalgic reminder of the 1950’s.
In March we went to see one of the films from the Glasgow Film Festival – “The Luckiest Man in America” it is based on a true story from the 1980s about an out of work guy with an ice cream van who won big on a games show - stranger than fiction.
In February some of group went to see “A Complete Unknown”, the film about Bob Dylan, a great film that took us back to the 60s. The singing was pure Dylan.
Our Cinema visit in November was to see The Blitz at the Glasgow Film Theatre. It’s a great film that painted a vivid picture of London in 1940. We went on Friday afternoon so tickets were only £6.50 – a bargain.