Prince CharlesCinema

The Prince Charles Cinema opened on Leicester Place on 26 December 1962 as a legitimate theatre before converting to film screenings, and Robins Cinemas turned it into a repertory house in April 1991. Two screens, seating 300 downstairs and 104 upstairs, run more than fifty different titles a week, from new releases to prints of cult classics. The cinema receives no public subsidy and competes on programming alone against the multiplexes ringing Leicester Square, building a following for its costumed Rocky Horror Picture Show nights and singalong screenings of The Sound of Music. Quentin Tarantino has praised its programming as true to what an independent cinema is meant to be.