Wes Anderson's Asteroid City!

We're delighted to once again offer a fun and learning-filled SUMMER FAMILY FILM FEST - in partnership with ThinkTV PBS and Dayton Metro Library! Doors open at 10:30 each week, and tickets will be free and given on a first-come, first-serve basis (one ticket per person - all guests in a party must be present to get tickets). We're planning hands-on activities to correspond with many of the screenings, and free books will be available courtesy of our friends at Dayton Metro Library. Mark your calendars and please spread the word. Here's the remaining schedule:

June 24 – “Library Day with CURIOUS GEORGE - this screening will be followed by a post-screening “hands on” event at the Dayton Metro Library Main Branch where children will have an opportunity to meet “Curious George”

July 1 – “Dogs Are Our Friends” with CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG – pet a puppy with WagTown after the screening

July 8 – “Sing Along” with SESAME STREET - this screening will be followed by an Elmo photobooth and coloring activities on THE NEON’s patio

July 15 – “Welcome to ODD SQUAD" – this screening will be followed by a Magnification Investigation on THE NEON’s patio.

We're ready to activate our patio for the season...and we'll soon be announcing some fun activities for the summer (Trivia, anyone??). One thing we're excited about is Friday night parties on our patio - with special guest hosts - starting this Friday! Join us on the patio from 5:30-7:30 with some of the  Boys Behind The RubiGirls - Dayton's beloved, charitable drag troupe! Next Friday, June 30, Mark & Lisa Allan will be our guests hosts. You'll recognize Mark from his years of being our favorite news anchor.

Many thanks to DAYTON 937 for helping to spread the word about our patio parties by writing a feature. You can read it  HERE.

ENCORE TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE! Sunday, June 25's screening is already sold out...and we've added a second show on Wednesday, July 5 at 7:30! Join us for our 3rd presentation from Exhibition On Screen and our 3rd screening in partnership with Dayton Art Institute -  VERMEER: THE GREATEST EXHIBITION. Tickets are on sale now for $12.50. "In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opened its doors to the largest Vermeer exhibition in history. With loans from across the world, this major retrospective has brought together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance. This new Exhibition on Screen film invites audiences to a private view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curator of the show. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! As well as bringing Vermeer’s works together, both the Rijksmuseum and the Mauritshuis in the Hague have conducted research into Vermeer’s artistry, his artistic choices and motivations for his compositions, as well as the creative process behind his paintings."

TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT for the special Pride Screening of the documentary that is making waves - 1946: THE MISTRANSLATION THAT SHIFTED CULTURE. Click the image below to watch the film's trailer! We will look to schedule an encore screening later in the summer. Stay tuned!

On Sunday, July 9 at 4:00, we're bringing the next National Theatre Live production to our big screen - David Tennant in the classic play GOOD. "Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a blistering return to the West End in one of Britain’s most powerful political plays, as an ordinary man who is swept into the Nazi regime. As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. Olivier Award-winner Dominic Cooke (Follies) directs C.P. Taylor’s timely tale, with a cast that also features Elliot Levey (Coriolanus) and Sharon Small (The Bay). Filmed live from the Harold Pinter Theatre in London." Tickets are $12.50 each and available now! Click the image below to see the production's trailer.

2 SPECIAL SCREENINGS are now set for this 50th Anniversary celebration! "One of the most iconic performances in the history of modern music, David Bowie’s retirement of his Ziggy Stardust alter ego in front of 5,000 fans at London’s Hammersmith Odeon was captured on film by award-winning director D.A. Pennebaker on July 3, 1973. In celebration of the 50^th anniversary of this event, the original, uncut version of the film has been restored in 4K and with a 5.1 theatrical mix and will feature never-before-seen performances with legendary guitar player Jeff Beck. ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS: THE MOTION PICTURE 50^TH ANNIVERSARY is the closest audiences will come to being there on that unforgettable night 50 years ago." Monday, July 10 at 7:30 and Sunday, July 23 at 5:15.

In celebration of the landmark musical's 80th Anniversary, see  OKLAHOMA! on the Big Screen with us. 2 Special Screenings with tickets just $12.50 each. "Oh, what a beautiful day! This July, the magic and energy of live theatre is coming to THE NEON with the National Theatre’s acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! Starring then-newcomer Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman) as Curly, alongside Maureen Lipman, Josefina Gabrielle and Shuler Hensley, this riveting stage production was filmed during its record-breaking 1998 run in London. Directed by theatre legend Trevor Nunn (CATS, Les Misérables) with choreography by Susan Stroman, OKLAHOMA! features some of musical theatre’s most delightfully hummable songs, including “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top” and the joyous title tune, “Oklahoma.” Now one of the most beloved musicals ever to grace the stage is coming to the big screen 80 years after it first premiered on Broadway." Sunday, July 16 at 3:30 and Wednesday, July 19 at 7:15.  Tickets are available now!

Tickets for 2 Special Screenings of HAVE YOU GOT IT YET? THE STORY OF SYD BARRETT AND PINK FLOYD are now available! "Cult icon, enigma, recluse... the life of Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, is full of unanswered questions. Until now. Piecing together his comet-like rise to pop stardom, his creative and destructive impulses, breakdown, exit from the band and subsequent life alone, this feature length documentary is set against the social context of the explosive sixties. Directed by Storm Thorgerson (Hipgnosis) and award-winning director Roddy Bogawa, it features new interviews with Syd’s friends, lovers, family and band mates Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason." Sunday, July 30 at 5:15 and Wednesday, Aug. 2 at 7:30 - tickets just $12.50 each. Click the image below to watch the film's trailer.

Thank you for all your support!

We hope to see you soon,

Jonathan