This image: Gangsta Granny
Check out a feast of fab theatre in the next four months at the Arts
There’s always plenty of familiar faces appearing at Cambridge Arts Theatre, but Edition reckons the upcoming autumn season raises the bar to an all-time high – not at all bad as the theatre celebrates its 80th anniversary.
Amanda Holden, not only a Britain’s Got Talent judge, but a one-time Laurence Olivier Award nominee, is joined by stars of various front-line soaps Angela Griffin, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tamzin Outhwaite and Nicola Stephenson, in the funny and touching Stepping Out, which runs from 31 October to 5 November.
Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart) stars alongside Clive Francis in the heartwarming 84 Charing Cross Road (2-17 September), while Stephanie Beacham (Dynasty) returns to the Arts to play Princess Margaret in A Princess Undone from 19 to 22 October.
Robert Powell (The Detectives) and Liza Goddard (Doctor Who) star in the finely crafted and funny Relatively Speaking (7-12 November) and Felicity Kendal, best known for The Good Life among countless TV roles, brings A Room with a View to the Arts on 14-19 November.
Music fans are in for a treat when Radio 2’s Clare Teal honours the great ladies of swing in Clare Teal and her Hollywood Orchestra on 23 October. Another jazz highlight has to be Miles and Coltrane @ 90 on 13 November (right), a concert that commemorates the 90th birthdays of Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
Youngsters will enjoy Judith Kerr’s classic tea-guzzling tiger brought to life in The Tiger Who Came to Tea (20-25 September), and the half-term hit is sure to be Gangsta Granny on 25-29 October, written by David Walliams.
Susan Hill’s ghost story The Woman in Black returns from 26 September to 1 October, while Frank McGuinness’s war play Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (4-8 October) marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
The year ends in traditional style with Dick Whittington and his Cat (1 December – 8 January), featuring Cambridge’s favourite dame Matt Crosby as Sarah the cook.
This image: 84 Charing Cross Road
