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BLACK BEAUTY

Sunday, July 27, 2025 | 12:00PM

Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Doors open at 11:30am

Regular ticket prices
Tickets available online in advance, at our box office during open hours, or at the door (if available).

Like the Anna Sewell novel that inspired it, this film adaptation is told from the perspective of a majestic stallion named Black Beauty (Alan Cumming). As a colt, Black Beauty has a relaxed life in the English countryside, owned by the kindly farmer Grey (Sean Bean). However, later in life, he is forced to work as a London taxi horse, and a series of thrilling hardships and triumphs.

After co-writing Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1994’s Black Beauty is Caroline Thompson’s directorial debut. As the screenwriter as well, she adapts Anna Sewell’s famous novel as pretty, passionate, and true to the themes of the book, moved along through Beauty’s life by a lovely Danny Elfman score, and a continued reflection on humans’ relations to animals.

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