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Friday 6 June 2025

Volunteers' Week 2025!


This week we are celebrating Volunteers' Week 2025! We're missing our volunteers whilst we're closed for redevelopment, but this week Matt and Luna from our Front of House team arranged a special tour of King's College as a thank you for their incredible support throughout the year.

We also asked them about their experiences volunteering, the reasons for giving us their time and the hard work they put in week-in-week-out! Here are some of their thoughts...

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Monday 23 December 2024

Cinderella: Panto by Numbers!


With Christmas just two days away, festive excitement is at an all-time high here at Cambridge Arts Theatre. To celebrate, here's some "panto by numbers" fun facts about this year's show Cinderella...

In total our talented Cinderella cast will perform 65 times… that’s 8,450 minutes of panto madness!

Our incredible costume team and in-house wardrobe duo have stitched, pinned and perfected a whopping 86 costumes for the entire show.

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Tuesday 2 July 2024

Dave Murphy to step down as CEO of Cambridge Arts Theatre

Cambridge Arts Theatre today announces that Dave Murphy is stepping down as CEO after 21 years. 

Dave Murphy said today, “In light of the recent news of the transformational gift from the Gatsby Foundation for the refurbishment of our main auditorium and the Theatre shifting towards the implementation phase of the capital project, I have decided that with the future of the Theatre secured it is now the right time for me to step down from my role.”

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