Best described as an X-rated Sesame Street, Avenue Q returns to the Arts Theatre this month. Jenny Shelton speaks to the show’s star, college graduate Princeton, about life as a...
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When Alan Bennett brought the BBC his scripts for the first series of Talking Heads, the director Stuart Burge came up with a novel way to rehearse them. Bennett had...
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Shakespeare 1. Cambridge Shakespeare Festival The city’s own summer festival of Shakespeare continues this month, taking place in beautiful college garden settings that are rarely glimpsed by the general public....
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As Mrs Warren's Profession prepares to take to the Cambridge stage, we talk to director Paul Milton about this play with a saucy but essentially serious subject at its heart....
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A Cambridge summer wouldn’t be complete without an evening of open-air Shakespeare and a G&T or cold beer on the roof terrace of The Varsity Hotel. Combine the two on...
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Three respectable couples, who were married on the same day, reunite to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversaries. But are they all as upright as they seem? And more importantly, what...
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Pandas, spies, poets and footballers... all these and lots more feature at Hotbed, Cambridge Junction’s festival of new writing, taking place 9-12 July. Hotbed is an annual event showcasing theatre...
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Cambridge Shakespeare Festival returns with appropriate pomp, ceremony and regalia to the University's beautiful college gardens on 13 July, offering an eclectic programme of plays throughout July and into August....
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It’s been nearly 30 years since the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival first staged plays in the grounds of Cambridge’s university colleges, inviting audiences to enjoy timeless stories of romance, drama and...
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Alan Bennett’s stonkingly successful play, which premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 2004, returns for a major UK tour, stopping at the Arts Theatre from 6 to 11 July....