Rocky Horror Picture Show Sing-Along, The Old Courthouse

What to Expect

The Old Courthouse in Antrim schedules a sing-along screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show for Saturday 31 October 2026, timing the cult classic musical film deliberately for Halloween night as part of the venue’s late-October programme. Sing-along screenings of this kind typically encourage fancy dress and audience participation, with props and costume touches common among regular attendees, giving the evening more of a live event feel than a standard cinema screening. It runs alongside several other Halloween-themed shows the council has booked into the same venue across the final week of October, making the courthouse one of the more active seasonal entertainment spots in Antrim town over the Halloween period. The Old Courthouse itself is one of the borough’s most distinctive small venues, a restored eighteenth-century courthouse building repurposed by the council as a theatre and community arts space, which gives a period backdrop to a screening that has built a cult following well beyond its original 1975 release. For many regulars, the appeal is as much about the shared ritual of the sing-along, with lines called out and props raised at familiar cues, as it is about the film itself, and it tends to draw a mixed crowd of longtime fans and Halloween night first-timers alike.

Good to Know

• Date: Saturday 31 October 2026, Halloween night.
• Venue: The Old Courthouse, Market Square, Antrim town centre.
• Screening time and ticket price are confirmed via the venue’s own box office and booking system.
• Fancy dress and audience participation are typical of Rocky Horror sing-along screenings, though not compulsory.
• Part of a wider run of Halloween-themed programming at The Old Courthouse across late October 2026.
• Check antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk/visitor/arts-heritage/theatre/the-old-courthouse/ for booking details.
• The venue is a compact, intimate space, so advance booking is worth doing for a popular Halloween-night screening.
• Some attendees bring their own sing-along props; check with the venue in advance on what is permitted inside the building.

Getting There

The Old Courthouse is in Market Square in Antrim town centre, a short walk from Antrim bus centre and around ten minutes on foot from Antrim railway station, with the nearby Fountain Street car park serving the venue.