CITY Screen, York, is to run a second season of National Theatre Live satellite screenings.

“Naturally, we’re thrilled to continue our collaboration with the National Theatre and extend the programme of plays brought to City Screen,” says Dave Taylor, the Coney Street cinema’s marketing manager.

“NT Live is an exciting initiative to broadcast live performances of plays on to cinema screens worldwide, and the broadcasts often feature behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with artists.”

NT Live was launched with Phedre in June 2009, when 50,000 people worldwide watched Helen Mirren in Jean Racine’s savage play, translated into muscular free verse by the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.

Phedre was given an encore broadcast at City Screen last night to launch the new season, which will resume on October 14 with Complicité’s A Disappearing Number.

In National Theatre Live’s first venture beyond London, and first collaboration with another company, Complicite’s production will be broadcast live from the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, where the play first opened in 2007.

A Disappearing Number weaves together the story of two love affairs, separated by a century and a continent, the first happening now, the second set in 1914. It tells of the heartbreaking collaboration between the greatest natural mathematician of the 20th century, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a penniless Brahmin from Madras in South India, and his British counterpart, the brilliant Cambridge don GH Hardy.

Complemented by an original score by Nitin Sawhney, this piece of visual poetry from Simon McBurney and Complicité meditates on love, mathematics and the pain of exile in an age when we think we can belong anywhere and have everything.

Tickets are on sale already for A Disappearing Number and the box office will open on October 14 for three more broadcasts: Hamlet on December 9, Fela! on January 13 and The Donmar Warehouse’s King Lear on February 3.

Directed by Nicholas Hytner, the three-hour NT production of Hamlet features Rory Kinnear as the student prince, David Calder as Polonius, Clare Higgins as Gertrude, Patrick Malahide as Claudius and Ruth Negga as Ophelia.

Hytner is thrilled by the possibilities of NT Live. “I grew up in Manchester in the Sixties; if I’d been able to see Olivier’s National Theatre at my local cinema, I would have gone all of the time,” he says.

The musical Fela! is a hybrid of dance, theatre and music. Sahr Ngaujah will take the role of Fela Anikulpao-Kuti.

Derek Jacobi will lead the cast in King Lear, renewing his working partnership with Michael Grandage, former artistic director of the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, after productions of The Tempest, Don Carlos and Twelfth Night.

• All shows start at 7pm. Tickets cost £15, concessions £13, City Screen members £12, on 0871 902 5726