$18- $23 Adults / $15- $20 Seniors 65+ / $13- $18 Students w/ID / Free- $14 for Youth / Free for Museum Members and Military Families Includes access to Wondrous Worlds.

General Admission includes Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam Through Time & Place

Our admission pricing flexes based on gallery closures and special exhibitions currently on view. All admission prices include special exhibitions. See exhibition pages for detailed pricing.

General admission is reduced to a voluntary donation during the times listed below. During these times, special-engagement exhibitions are not included and require a $5 ticket for entrance.
     Wednesdays, 3pm-9pm
     First Fridays, 6pm-10pm
     Second Sundays, 12pm-5pm

Includes general admission to the Museum / FREE for Members

Popular esoteric movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Spiritualism and Theosophy, provided a number of women artists with new avenues of creative expression. This lecture will focus on their attempts to chart new spiritual territories utilizing innovative visual strategies. Some of the artists to be examined are the British medium Georgiana Houghton, Swiss healer Emma Kunst, Swedish Theosophist Hilma af Klint, and the American visionary Agnes Pelton.Susan Aberth (B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY) is an Associate Professor in the Art History Program at Bard College. Her specialties include Latin American Art, Surrealism, Outsider Art and Esotericism and she is particularly interested in women surrealists working in the Americas. In addition to her 2004 book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Lund Humphries and Turner in Spanish), she has contributed essays to Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvelous (Routledge Press, 2018), Leonora Carrington: Cuentos Mágicos, (Museo de Arte Moderno & INBA, Mexico City, 2018); Unpacking: The Marciano Collection (Delmonico Books, Prestel, 2017), and Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde (Manchester University Press, 2017) as well as articles in Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies, Black Mirror (London), and Journal of Surrealism of the Americas. She is currently working on a book that explores the role of trance mediums in the formation of modern art, particularly in the United States (working title: Channeled Visions: Mediums and Modern Art).

Volunteers are the heart and soul of Phoenix Art Museum. This group of dedicated and passionate volunteers provides vital support to the Museum while working with staff and visitors in an energizing and inspiring environment. Volunteering is also a great way to get a behind-the-scenes look at the premiere arts institution in the Southwest. As a new volunteer to Phoenix Art Museum, the New Volunteer Orientation will aid you in your duties in assisting visitors and staff. Follow the prompts to reserve your spot on one of the session days that is convenient for you.

FREE reservation.

Event is FREE. RSVP required - space is extremely limited. Does not include General Admission.

Participants must read the book in advance. Please inform library@phxart.org of any cancellations.

THE FAMILY FANG by Kevin Wilson

Annie and Buster Fang have spent most of their adult lives trying to distance themselves from their famous performance artist parents, Caleb and Camille. But when a bad economy and a few bad personal decisions converge, the two siblings have nowhere to turn but their family home. Reunited under one roof for the first time in more than a decade and surrounded by the souvenirs of their unusual upbringing, Buster and Annie are forced to confront not only their creatively ambitious parents, but the chaos and confusion of their childhood.

“The Family Fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tour-de-force examination of what it means to make art and survive your family….The best single word description would be brilliant.” —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto

“It’s The Royal Tenenbaums meets Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I’d call The Family Fang a guilty pleasure, but it’s too damn smart….A total blast.” —Hannah Pittard, author of The Fates Will Find Their Way

$5 per person FREE for members, military personnel and youth 5 and under

During voluntary donation times, when general admission is free, tickets to special engagement exhibitions have a reduced price. These tickets are to see the exhibition Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam During Time and Place during Discount Tire Free Family Sunday. Starting March 9, these tickets will also include Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist.

Tickets are $10 / FREE for Members
Ticket includes resources, appetizers & Museum admission.
Space is limited.

A Wednesday evening professional development series for educators.

Open to all educators, no art background required. Discover techniques for integrating art into your classroom learning, hear from local arts professionals, enjoy special tours of Museum exhibitions, and network while enjoying hands-on learning in a fun, casual atmosphere (with snacks!).

Special thanks to William Randolph Hearst Foundation for generously sponsoring educator events at Phoenix Art Museum.

FREE with RSVP.

By teens, for everyone.

Explore Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place, and come together for a sip of coffee and a conversation on the intersection between coffee, art, and culture.Coffee ceremony by A.T. Oasis Coffee & Tea Shop. A.T. Oasis Coffee & Tea Shop was founded in 2013 by owner Aisha Tedros and her husband Abdul. Aisha, originally from Eritrea, just north of Ethiopia, envisioned a neighborhood gathering place where people could experience both the rich flavors and beautiful traditions of Ethiopian coffee.Aisha personally buys all-natural green coffee beans directly from Ethiopian farmers and then roasts them in small batches right here in Phoenix, AZ. She has also brought the traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony to the valley of the sun.

Tickets are $10 / $5 for Members / FREE for Circles and FOCA Members

a new power is rising

the post human will inherit the earth

Daniel Joseph Martinez
b. Los Angeles, California 1957

Daniel Joseph Martinez was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1979. He was a student of Michael Asher and did post graduate studies with Klaus Rinke 1980-81. Throughout his career spanning to four decades, Martinez has engaged in an interrogation of social, political, and cultural mores through artworks that have been described as nonlinear, asymmetrical, multidimensional propositions. Operating with fluidity and as open source manifestations not bound by any singular category, his works extend from the ephemeral to the solid. Martinez’s practice is media fluid, taking the form of text, sculpture, photography, painting, installation, robotics, performance, and public interventions to unapologetically question issues of the politics of race, free will, human nature, personal and collective identity, vision and visuality, and the fissures formed between the appearance and the perception of difference. Ongoing themes include contamination, history, surveillance, violence, nomadic power, cultural resistance, war, dissentience, time travel, post humanism, AI, machine intelligence, quantum physics, interdimensional travel, and systems of symbolic exchange, directed toward the precondition of politics coexisting as radical beauty. Their commonality is that they all address topics of race, class, Identity and sociopolitical boundaries present within American society.

Martinez represented the U.S. in 11 biennials worldwide, including the Venice Biennial (1993); Istanbul Biennial (2011); Berlin Biennial (2010); California Biennial (2008); Lyon Biennial, France (2013); two Whitney Biennials (1993, 2008); he represented the United States in the American Pavilion in the Cairo Biennial (2006), Moscow Biennial, Lima Biennial, Quebec Biennial, in addition to two international projects of U.S. Department of State. Martinez has received three National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Fellowships, an individual Artist Fellowship from the Getty Center, an Alpert Award in the Arts and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Flintridge Foundation Fellowship; United States Artist fellowship, Two Anchorage Museum Residency Awards; CannonBall Residency Award Miami, Florida; ArtPace Foundation Fellowship/Residency, San Antonio, Texas; California Arts Council Fellowship; COLA, City of Los Angeles Fellowship; Most recently, Martinez is the recipient of the Career/Lifetime Achievement Award honoring brilliance and resilience in conjunction with the Hammer Museum’s biennial, Made in L.A. 2018; the 2018 Rockefeller Foundation, Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship/ Residency at the Bellagio Center, Italy; the 2017 Life Time Achievement Award for The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation’s 15th annual Grants & Commissions Program; the prestigious honor of receiving the American Academy Fellowship/Residency in Berlin, Germany (Berlin Prize) in 2016 and the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts from the Herb Alpert Foundation in Los Angeles in 2014. The Headlands Center Residency, San Francisco 2019.

Martinez’s work can be found in public collections in the United States including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Los Angeles County Museum, LACMA; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, MFAH; Orange County Museum of Art, OCMA; Des Moines Art Museum, Iowa; Newport Beach, California; San Diego Museum of Art; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas.

Committed to artist-run and not for profit galleries and organizations, Martinez was a co-founder of Deep River and LA>< Art, both in Los Angeles. He remains additionally active on multiple non-profit boards. Martinez is represented by 5 monographs and currently working on a new book collaborating with critical theorist Juli Carson based on his residency In Bellagio.

Martinez is a Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of California at Irvine; he teaches in the Graduate Studies Program, New Genres Area and Critical & Curatorial Studies. He lives and works in the Crenshaw District in South Los Angeles.

$5 per person FREE for members, military personnel and youth 5 and under
During voluntary donation times, when general admission is free, tickets to special engagement exhibitions have a reduced price. These tickets are to see the exhibition Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam During Time and Place during the First Friday event. Starting March 9, these tickets will also include Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist.

From 6–10 pm on the first Friday of each month, Phoenix Art Museum is open to the public with voluntary donation admission. Share your First Friday experience: @phxart #phxartff

Tickets are FREE for Members / $15 for non-Members / $12 if purchased before 2/1/19

Space is limited, advance purchase is recommended.
Seating is first-come, first-seated.
Doors to Whiteman Hall open at 7pm, show starts at 7:30pm.

The Whole Story returns to Phoenix Art Museum in 2019! Now in its fourth year, the live storytelling show seeks to bring greater depth and breadth to our understanding of the human experience from the Black perspective and celebrates the nuances of our humanity. To learn how to be a part of The Whole Story, visit www.thewholestoryis.com.

Included in General Admission plus $5 Materials Fee. Members are to include $5 Materials fee only.

In this two-hour workshop, we will be discussing some of the basics on scripting Arabic Calligraphy, while also stepping outside of the traditional boundaries through Calligraffiti. We will be going over the structural process, the different forms, and the creative process that stems from within, in addition to conversation in the galleries. Upon completion, participants will produce an artwork and be given study material for home practice.

Please note that this workshop is geared towards an adult (17+) audience.

What is Calligraffiti?
Calligraffiti merges the traditions of calligraphy with the modern art of graffiti. This hybrid art form draws inspiration from time-honored techniques while simultaneously breaking the rules of composition and form. The artist’s style of handwriting and their unique approach to composing words makes calligraffiti something altogether new.  

Mario Garcia is a Mexican-American Islamic artist best known for his use of Arabic characters. He uses form, figures, and shapes to amplify the majesty of the ancient script. With over 9 years of experience, he has managed to transcend the boundaries of language, while always drawing inspiration from Islamic art. His primary medium is acrylic paint on canvas, but he excels in mural production and on-the-spot live painting as well. He often takes a multidimensional approach with his structure, to invoke a deeper level of involvement in the observer. His style is known as Calligraffiti which is a modern twist on a form of art that dates back to the 7th century. His purpose is to keep this ancient script alive and thriving, in a way that everyone can appreciate and connect to, even if they have no ties to the culture or language.

Follow Mario’s work on Instagram @qlmdesigns.

$5 per person FREE for members, military personnel and youth 5 and under

During voluntary donation times, when general admission is free, tickets to special engagement exhibitions have a reduced price. These tickets are to see the exhibition Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam During Time and Place during Discount Tire Free Family Sunday. Starting March 9, these tickets will also include Agnes Pelton:  Desert Transcendentalist

Through the generosity of Discount Tire, general admission to Phoenix Art Museum is waived and admission to the special-engagement exhibition Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam Through Time & Place is discounted on the second Sunday of each month, with exciting activities, scavenger hunts, live performances, tours, and more.

Open to the public on Sunday, February 10 from noon until 5 pm. Each Discount Tire Free Family Sunday features an opportunity to learn about and make art with local Valley artists, from muralists to dancers and more.

Share your experience: @phxart #PhxArtFamily #FamiliaPhxArt

Included in General Admission / FREE for Members
RSVP required

Relax and decompress with crystal bowls, chimes and specific healing sound instruments that create an accessible meditation that everyone can benefit from. The benefits of meditation and sound healing are vast and powerful effecting the body, mind and emotions.

Emily Blanche is a creative and nurturing yoga and meditation teacher, respected for her delivery that encourages self-love, patience, and upliftment both in class and in life. With over two decades of experience, Emily serves a diverse population which includes people of all ages, experience levels, and physical abilities. Her classes integrate practices from Kundalini Yoga and Hatha Yoga traditions as well as sound healing to support physical well-being, stress relief, and peace.

Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members. Select4 - Purchase 4 or more tickets in one transaction and receive $3 off per ticket!
Does not include General Admission for non-members. Non-members may purchase day of general admission for $5 per ticket.

Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.

Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of theAlmeida Theatre in London to cinemas.

This visceral new production about the limits of power will be directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, whose previous plays include Little Revolution at the Almeida and Absolute Hell at the National Theatre.

Richard II, King of England, is irresponsible, foolish and vain. His weak leadership sends his kingdom into disarray and his court into uproar. Seeing no other option but to seize power, the ambitious Bolingbroke challenges the throne and the king’s divine right to rule.

Simon Russell Beale returns to National Theatre Live screens following broadcasts of Timon of Athens and King Lear, and his recent role in the National Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of The Lehman Trilogy.

Please note, National Theatre Live is a telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.

(150min, PG-13)

Special offer for NTL ticket holders - receive 10% off Phoenix Theatre singlet ticket(s) when an NTL ticket is presented Phoenix Theatre box office.

All sessions are open to all.

Please note: Starting July 2018, Slow Art & Mindfulness is free with the purchase of General Admission. Pricing reflects General Admission.

Join us as we use art and guided meditation to connect to the moment and create a deeper understanding of artworks once per month. Take a little extra time to look, listen and relax your mind with our teams of museum educators and mindfulness guides.

Presented in partnership with Hospice of the Valley, each session focuses on one work of art in the Museum, blending guided mindfulness practice with a deeper reflection of an individual artwork. Each week, we will explore a different artwork on view.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction was developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979 by physicist Jon Kabat-Zinn. Scientific studies show the practice of mindfulness can relieve anxiety, depression, pain, and stress and actually change the way you feel, think, work and play by opening new pathways in the brain.

$10 General Admission / $5 for Members

Phoenix premier of Singing Our Way to Freedom with post-film Q&A with Director, Writer, and Producer Paul Espinosa.

Singing Our Way to Freedom is a multilayered look at the life of San Diego Chicano musician, composer and community activist, Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez. Borrowing from musical traditions on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, Chunky uses music and humor as powerful weapons in fighting for social justice. From his humble beginnings as a farmworker in rural California to the dramatic moment when he received one of his nation’s highest musical honors at the Library of Congress, this character-driven film reminds us that the battle for freedom has to be fought anew by every generation.
 
Paul Espinosa (Producer, Director, Writer) is an award-winning filmmaker and president of Espinosa Productions, a San Diego production company specializing in films focused on the U.S.-Mexico border region. He has been involved with producing films for nearly 40 years. His many films for PBS include The Lemon Grove Incident, …and the earth did not swallow him, The Hunt for Pancho Villa, The U.S.-Mexican War: 1846-1848, In the Shadow of the Law and Ballad of an Unsung Hero. Espinosa’s films have been screened at festivals around the world and have won many awards including eight Emmys. He is Professor Emeritus in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University.

(dir. Paul Espinosa / USA 2018 / 89 min / Not Rated / Color / English

Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members. Select4 - Purchase 4 or more tickets in one transaction and receive $3 off per ticket!
Does not include General Admission for non-members. Non-members may purchase day of general admission for $5 per ticket.

Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.

Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with an agonising decision.

What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?

Hare was recently described by The Washington Post as ‘the premiere political dramatist writing in English’. His other work includes Pravda and Skylight, broadcast by National Theatre Live in 2014.

(180min, PG-13)

Special offer for NTL ticket holders - receive 10% off Phoenix Theatre singlet ticket(s) when an NTL ticket is presented Phoenix Theatre box office.

Event is FREE. RSVP required - space is extremely limited. Does not include General Admission.

Participants must read the book in advance. Please inform library@phxart.org of any cancellations.

THE ART DETECTIVE: ADVENTURES OF AN ANTIQUE ROADSHOW APPRAISER by Philip Mould
 
What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their attics contain trash or treasures. In The Art Detective, Philip Mould, one of the world's foremost authorities on British portraiture and an irreverent and delightful expert for the Roadshow, serves up his secrets and his best stories, blending the technical details of art detection and restoration with juicy tales peopled by a range of eccentric collectors, scholars, forgers, and opportunists.

Peppered with practical advice, each chapter focuses on one particular painting and the mystery that surrounds it. Mould is our trusty detective, tracking down clues, uncovering human foibles and following hunches until the truth is revealed. Mould is known for his ability to crack the toughest puzzles and whether he's writing about a fake Norman Rockwell, a hidden Rembrandt, or a lost Gainsborough, he brings both the art and the adventure to life.

"The Art Detective is memoir, mystery, art history, and brilliant yarn all rolled into one." – Penguin Random House Books

Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members. Select4 - Purchase 4 or more tickets in one transaction and receive $3 off per ticket!
Does not include General Admission for non-members. Non-members may purchase day of general admission for $5 per ticket.

Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.

Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, Doctor Strange) plays the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by over 900,000 people worldwide, the original broadcast returns to cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

(219 min, NR)

Special offer for NTL ticket holders - receive 10% off Phoenix Theatre singlet ticket(s) when an NTL ticket is presented Phoenix Theatre box office.

Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members and Students w/ID. Does not include General Admission.

Carmen is as sensual and free-spirited as ever as she finds herself caught in a love triangle. The passionate one act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, originally conceived for legendary Bolshoi prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, will captivate audiences alongside Petrushka, a new creation for the Bolshoi by contemporary choreographer Edward Clug. The double-bill event for cinemas encapsulates and showcases the soul of Russian Ballet.

Please note: Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.

Run time: 140 minutes

Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members. Select4 - Purchase 4 or more tickets in one transaction and receive $3 off per ticket! Does not include General Admission for non-members. Non-members may purchase day of general admission for $5 per ticket.

Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.

The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.

One of Britain’s most celebrated writers, Alan Bennett’s plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George III, all of which were also seen on film. Allelujah! is his tenth collaboration with award-winning director Nicholas Hytner.

(170 minutes including interval, PG-13)

Special offer for NTL ticket holders - receive 10% off Phoenix Theatre singlet ticket(s) when an NTL ticket is presented Phoenix Theatre box office.

Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members. Select4 - Purchase 4 or more tickets in one transaction and receive $3 off per ticket!
Does not include General Admission for non-members. Non-members may purchase day of general admission for $5 per ticket.

Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.

By Joseph Mankiewicz
Adapted and Directed for the stage by Ivo van Hove

Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NTLive: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) lead in All About Eve, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London. All About Eve tells the story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there's Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve...don't you...? Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world's most innovative theatre directors, Ivo van Hove, (NT Live: A View from the Bridge), asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get old. All about Eve is adapted by Ivo van Hove from the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and the play "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr. Ivo van Hove directs this new stage version with set and lighting design from Jan Versweyveld, costume design by An D'Huys and music from double Mercury Prize-winner PJ Harvey, alongside Tom Gibbons' sound design. Casting is by Julia Horan CDG.

Run time: 2 hours 10 minutes Rating: PG-13

Special offer for NTL ticket holders - receive 10% off Phoenix Theatre singlet ticket(s) when an NTL ticket is presented Phoenix Theatre box office.

Tickets are $12 (Does not include General Admission) / $9 for Members

An extraordinary global event will take place from September 26 to October 6, 2019, when over 100,000 people in over 300 cities across six continents gather in cinemas, galleries, universities, museums, and cafes for one purpose...to view and vote on short films in the 22nd Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival.

On entry to the venue, every audience member will be given a ballot to vote for the best short films and actor at the conclusion of the show. Votes will be tallied at MANHATTAN SHORT headquarters in NYC and the winners will be announced at ManhattanShort.com on Monday, October 7th.

The Festival’s mission is to unite audiences across the globe for one week via the most compelling short films submitted each year. Every viewer at every screening in every venue gets to vote for their favorite short films with the winner being announced at the end of the festival.

Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members. Select4 - Purchase 4 or more tickets in one transaction and receive $3 off per ticket!
Does not include General Admission for non-members. Non-members may purchase day of general admission for $5 per ticket.

Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.

By Nick Dear
Based on the novel by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein returns to international cinemas this Halloween, to mark the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's most famous novel. Captured live in 2011 from the National Theatre stage in London, this thrilling, sold-out production became an international sensation, experienced by almost half a million people in cinemas around the world.Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC's Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the increasingly desperate and vengeful Creature determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil, are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic tale.

Run time: 10/13/19: 2 hr 20 min. (no intermission) Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature
Run time: 10/27/19: 2 hr. 10 min. (no intermission) Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature

Rating: R

Special offer for NTL ticket holders - receive 10% off Phoenix Theatre singlet ticket(s) when an NTL ticket is presented Phoenix Theatre box office.

Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members.  and Students w/ID. Does not include General Admission. Select4 - Purchase 4 or more tickets in one transaction and receive $3 off per ticket!
Does not include General Admission for non-members. Non-members may purchase day of general admission for $5 per ticket.

Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.

Adapted by Helen Edmundson
Based on the novel by Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy's Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play in cinemas, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live's 10th birthday. Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948-the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tillbury, England. The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK. A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in London in this timely and moving story. 

Run time: 2hrs. 50 min. Rating: PG-13

Special offer for NTL ticket holders - receive 10% off Phoenix Theatre singlet ticket(s) when an NTL ticket is presented Phoenix Theatre box office.