About Broadway
Broadway is Nottingham's independent cinema: a four-screen cinema, Café Bar and creative hub on Broad Street in Hockley, at the heart of the city's Creative Quarter and welcoming 200,000 visitors per year. We are a registered charity (no. 700880), and every ticket, pizza and pint helps fund our mission to inspire creativity and a lifelong love of film.
What we screen
We programme the best of cinema in all its forms: new releases, independent British film, world cinema, documentaries, classic retrospectives and event cinema, alongside Q&As, seasons and festivals you will not find anywhere else. Every October we host Mayhem Film Festival, the region's only weekend-long celebration of horror, sci-fi and cult film. In 2009, Total Film named Broadway one of the best cinemas in the world.
Our screens
All four of our screens were rebuilt around comfort. Screen 1 seats 248, with seats made wider and more generous in our 2019 refurbishment, which also brought 7.1 surround sound, new hearing loops and 4K projection to Screens 1 and 2. Screen 4 is the world's only cinema screen designed by Sir Paul Smith, finished in the designer's signature Big Stripe.
A cinema for everyone
Everyone should be able to experience the delight that cinema brings. We deliver over 700 captioned screenings a year, audio description in every screen, regular Relaxed Screenings with adjusted lighting and sound, Parent & Baby screenings, and a Pay What You Feel Family Film Club with tickets from £2. Free tickets are available for essential companions, and our venue is audited annually by AccessAble.
Film is made here, not just shown. Broadway is the lead organisation for Film Hub Midlands, part of the BFI Film Audience Network, helping people across the region watch, make and show films. We are home to Near Now, our arts and technology studio and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, and we have delivered the BFI Film Academy for the East Midlands for over twelve years, giving more than 230 young people aged 16 to 19 free training with industry professionals. Filmmakers work in our building every day, and our community partnerships run all year round, including our support for Nottingham Pride since 1997.
Our story
Our building has been bringing people together since 1839, first as a Wesleyan chapel, where William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, found his faith in 1844, and later as the Nottingham Film Theatre, one of the UK's first BFI-supported regional film theatres. Broadway opened on 31 August 1990 with a screening of Enemies: A Love Story, and within three years hosted the UK premiere of Pulp Fiction, with Quentin Tarantino in the building. Look closely in the Mezz Bar and you will find the signatures our visiting filmmakers have left on the Screen 2 projector ever since.
Visit us
Broadway, 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL. Box office: 0115 952 6611, open daily from 12pm.
