Cambridge Arts Theatre

Everyone at the Arts Theatre is extremely excited to welcome the distinguished actor Ralph Fiennes to Cambridge later this month. Ralph will be directing and starring in a world premiere production of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, and we can't wait to see an icon of British performance live on stage.

To kick start February we are welcoming Downton Abbey star, Elizabeth McGovern, in Theatre Royal Bath's production God of Carnage. Yasmina Reza's play follows two sets of parents who meet to discuss their children's bad behaviour. As the evening progresses, the adult's behaviour begins to mirror their offspring's and soon, the evening turns to chaos. 

Following a sold out run at Hampstead Theatre in 2017, next week the Arts Theatre welcomes Prism starring Robert Lindsay, based on the true story of master cinematographer Jack Cardiff. Ahead of opening night, we delved further in to Cardiff's life to find out how he became one of Britain's greatest filmmakers.

This week we chatted to actor and puppeteer Vinnie Heaven ahead of Wise Children's wonderfully imaginative production of Malory Towers next week...

Is Malory Towers your first experience working with Wise Children and director Emma Rice?

Yes and yes. It’s brilliant!

It is 40 years since award-winning playwright Willy Russell wrote Educating Rita - it remains one of his best loved works, regularly performance around the world. For Russell, it's a time for reflection on the success of his play. 

In 1977 The Morecambe & Wise TV Christmas Special attracted over 28 million viewers. Over half the population of Britain at the time. An enviable record that’s not been touched and unlikely to be repeated ever again.

We speak the director (John Haider) and star (Tom Mothersdale) of Richard III about rediscovering one of Shakespeare’s most famous villains.

What’s Shakespeare’s Richard III all about?

All aboard! Star of EastEnders and recent winner on MasterChef John Partridge is preparing to visit Cambridge Arts Theatre once again as he takes to the stage in Tom Stoppard's highly entertaining and downright absurd comedy Rough Crossing. 

We stole 5 minutes of John's time to hear all about the show, and picked his brain about life after Masterchef...

The world renowned Shakespeare's Globe are back on the road, touring three of the Bard's most popular plays to the Arts Theatre this month - The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night.