Dipson Theatres presents our special event schedule. Your source for live broadcast ballet and opera events.

Special Event Programming

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  The Met: Live in HD Falstaff

  
  

  Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy. Maestro Daniele Rustio...

  4/1/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  4/1/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD Der Rosenkavalier

  
  

  A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophi...

  4/15/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  4/15/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  The Big Lebowski - 25th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski returns home only to be roughed up by two thugs claiming to be collecting money that Lebowski's wife owes a man named Jackie Treehorn. After beating him and peeing on his rug,...

  4/16/2023, 4/20/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  4/16/2023, 4/20/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD Champion (VIP)

  
  

  Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021. Bass...

  4/29/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  4/29/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  Grease - 45th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  The kids are cool, the cars are hot, and the tunes are always rockin' and rollin' when one of the most beloved comedies of all time comes back to theaters to celebrate its 45th anniversary! Good girl...

  5/14/2023, 5/17/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  5/14/2023, 5/17/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD Don Giovanni

  
  

  Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape an...

  5/20/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  5/20/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  The Met: Live in HD Die Zauberflöte

  
  

  One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production...

  6/3/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  6/3/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  Hairspray - 35th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  Hairspray: It's Baltimore, 1962, and a rebellious teenager with the biggest bouffant on the block attempts to win the coveted "Miss Auto Show" crown as she fights against racial discrimination in this...

  6/11/2023, 6/14/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  6/11/2023, 6/14/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  National Lampoon's Vacation - 40th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  The all-American Griswold family just wants to go on an all-American vacation. Everyone is packed. The route is planned ... And absolutely everything goes wrong as a simple trip quickly becomes a madc...

  7/16/2023, 7/19/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  7/16/2023, 7/19/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  Enter the Dragon - 50th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  Bruce Lee explodes onto the screen in the film that rocketed him to international superstardom, Enter The Dragon. Recruited by an intelligence agency, martial arts student Lee (Lee--Fists of Fury, The...

  8/13/2023, 8/16/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  8/13/2023, 8/16/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  Rain Man - 35th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.aCharlie (Tom Cruise) just discovered he has an autistic broth...

  9/17/2023, 9/20/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  9/17/2023, 9/20/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  The Birds - 60th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is an unforgettable masterpiece that is considered one of the most terrifying films from the Master of Suspense. When beautiful, blonde Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) trav...

  10/22/2023, 10/23/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  10/22/2023, 10/23/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  Scarface - 40th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of...

  11/12/2023, 11/15/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  11/12/2023, 11/15/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS

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  A Christmas Story - 40th Anniversary Presented by TCM

  
  

  It's the final days before Christmas in early 1940s Cleveland, and 9-year-old Ralphie wants one thing from Santa more than anything else: a Red Ryder Carbine Action Air Rifle. As he trudges through th...

  12/10/2023, 12/13/2023 Amherst Theatre BUY TICKETS

  12/10/2023, 12/13/2023 Lakewood Cinema 8 BUY TICKETS