The stalls are fully accessible to wheelchair users. There is level access to the main foyer. Access to the circle and coffee lounge is from the first floor level. Ladies toilets are situated off of the first floor coffee bar, gentlemens toilets and a fully accessible toilet are on the ground floor next to the entrance to the stalls.

 

For recorded information please telephone 0300 124 0275. Calls to this number are charged at local call rates.  To contact the cinema directly, please telephone 01395 26 22 08, after 1.00pm at weekends, and after 5.00pm on weekdays. Staff are unavailable to take telephone calls before this time.

The Radway Theatre opened as a live theatre on 25th June 1928. It was designed by local architect P.E. Steadman. Seating was provided for 680; there were 520 seats in the stalls and 160 seats in the circle. The proscenium was 27 feet wide and the stage was 22 feet deep, with four dressing rooms. The auditorium ceiling is made of patterned pressed tin, an unusual material to use in the UK, especially in a cinema.

Soon after opening, talking pictures arrived and the theatre was converted into a full time cinema, to the plans of noted cinema architect William Henry Watkins. Little alteration was done to the auditorium, it was mainly the foyer area alterations and provision of a projection suite that he was responsible for. It re-opened as the Radway Cinema on 2nd December 1929 with Estelle Brody in "Kitty". In 1936 it was re-named Palace Theatre, but went back to its original name the next year.

In the 1950’s a wider 41 feet proscenium was installed and the seating capacity was reduded to 365. The cinema was closed in 1984 for modernisation and re-opened 17th August 1985 with "A Passage to India".

Making use of the 2020 lockdown, we installed a state-of-the-art Digital Laser Projector which is best in class.