A DAY-LONG CELEBRATION! | Friday, June 12 | Celebrate Little Theatre Day with us, all day long, with free movies for members, and more
Little Theatre Day 2026 – June 12
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Upcoming Event
Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC
LIMITED RUN | June 13-14 | SURFILMUSIC, a new documentary chronicling Jack Johnson’s evolution from surfer to filmmaker to world-renowned musician. The film traces how Jack’s early years making surf films with close friends became a foundation for a much broader creative life, capturing moments in and out of the water that later surfaced in his songwriting.
Teenage Wasteland – June 11 & 13
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, June 11 and Saturday, June 13 | A teacher inspires a group of teenagers in the early 1990s to make a student film and they uncover a conspiracy that is poisoning their community. Thirty years later they revisit this transformative experience.
The Playboy of the Western World – June 6 & 14
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE | Saturday, June 6 & Sunday, June 14 | Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when, on a normal day, a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer Christy Mahon becomes a local hero. The welcome murderer wins hearts and races as he beds himself into village life. That is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…
Rochester International Jazz Festival – June 19-27, 2026
An event taking place at The Little. | Ticketing not run by The Little, so Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
Alien 3 (35mm) – June 28
SPECIAL SCREENING | 35MM FILM | Sunday, June 28 at 7:30pm | Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It – June 29
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Monday, June 29 at 7:00pm | The exhilarating story of the legendary Grammy-winning musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, and countless others.
National Treasure – July 2
AMERICA 250 | Thursday, July 2 at 7:00pm | Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage), in hot pursuit of a legendary treasure, must steal one of America’s most sacred and guarded documents — the Declaration of Independence — or let it, and a key clue to the mystery, fall into dangerous hands.
City Mark: A Rochester Icon – July 5, 8 & 13
LIMITED RUN | FREE | Sunday, July 5; Wednesday, July 8; Monday, July 13 | A documentary film exploring the origin, evolution, and lasting impact of one of Rochester’s most recognizable symbols. From its creation in the 1970s to its place in today’s culture, the City Mark’s simple design became a powerful expression of identity, pride, and belonging.
Bouchra – July 5, 9, 13
WORLD OF ANIMATION | LIMITED RUN | Sunday, July 5 – Monday, July 13 | Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project.
Seven (35mm) – July 7
SPECIAL SCREENING | 35MM FILM | Seven on 7/7 at 7 | Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives in David Fincher’s “feel-bad” classic.
Slamdance On the Road Tour – July 10
FILMS + Q&A | Friday, July 10 at 7:30pm | Unstoppable programming, highlighting films created by filmmakers with visible and non-visible disabilities. Co-presented with Move to Include, this program includes the shorts “Talk” and “Contours”, the feature “You Look Fine”, and a Q&A with filmmaker/comedian J Snow.
RoboCop – July 11
AMERICA 250 | Saturday, July 11 at 8pm | In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories. Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Les Liaisons Dangereuses – July 11 & 19
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE | Saturday, July 11 & Sunday, July 19 | Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.
Cloud Atlas – July 12
STAFF PICKS x THE WACHOWSKIS | Sunday, July 12 at 6:30pm | An epic that spans five centuries, as souls are born and reborn, they renew their bonds to one another throughout time. Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent; from the directors of The Matrix Trilogy and Run Lola Run; based on the best-selling book.