Operation Mincemeat

Cambridge Arts Theatre 6 St Edward's Passage, Cambridge

Operation Mincemeat is the 2024 Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical and a 2025 Tony Award®-winning musical on Broadway. It’s London’s biggest hit! With 113 Five-Star reviews, making it the best-reviewed show in West End history, hailed by Peter Marks in The Washington Post as “the year’s funniest musical”. The year is 1943 and we’re losing […]

£40.50

Britten Sinfonia – Ancient Greek Meze

West Road Concert Hall 11 West Road, Cambridge

This performance marks 50 years since the death of composer Benjamin Britten, with sublime mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston the soloist in his late micro-opera Phaedra. The contrasts between Phaedra's disgust at her own obsession with her stepson and the heartfelt expressions of her love for him are darkly and brilliantly conveyed in this condensed masterpiece. “Hell […]

£12.50 – £25.00

Cambridge Film Festival 2026

Cambridge Arts Picturehouse 38 - 39 St Andrews St., Cambridge

The Cambridge Film Festival celebrates its 45th edition with 11 days of cinema from around the world, featuring almost 100 films from more than 25 countries. The Festival takes place at the Arts Picturehouse and partner venues across Cambridge This year’s programme includes major festival winners, new British films, documentaries and UK premieres, alongside filmmaker […]

Halloween and Alternative Fair

Ramsey Rural Museum Wood Lane, Ramsey

Halloween & Alternative Fayre event on Saturday, 24th October, 10am to 6pm, at Ramsey Rural Museum. Including a fancy dress competition (for all ages), tarot readers, alternative traders, etc. The Museum will also be open. Entry to the event is free excluding a ghost walk round the Museum from 7pm, £5 (tickets only). For more […]

£5.00

Top Girls

ADC Theatre Park Street, Cambridge

Haven’t you learned to think for yourself? I believe in the individual. Look at me." It's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80s, in Thatcher-era England. Marlene has just been made managing director of Top Girls employment agency, but with no friends to speak of, and a past she has forgotten, the guests at Marlene's […]

£10.00 – £18.50

Dexy’s Midnight Runners at Cambridge Corn Exchange

Cambridge Corn Exchange 2 Wheeler Street, Cambridge

Dexys Midnight Runners are back! The much-loved band, led by singer Kevin Rowland, have announced details of a U.K & Irish. tour starting in October of this year. Founded in Birmingham in 1978, Dexys Midnight Runners released three critically and commercially successful albums – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (1980), Too-Rye-Ay (1982) & Don’t […]

£44.00 – £71.50

Halloween Hunt

L&Q Marketing Suite Wallace Way, Darwin Green, Cambridge

On Saturday 31st October, from 11am to 3pm, housing association L&Q is inviting local families to take part in a free Halloween Hunt at Darwin Green, just outside Cambridge city centre. Families will be challenged to find nine spooky characters hidden around the neighbourhood, using a special map and bingo card to guide them along […]

Free

Jools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra

Cambridge Corn Exchange 2 Wheeler Street, Cambridge

Musical maestro Jools Holland and his world-renowned Rhythm & Blues Orchestra are delighted to announce their 2026 Autumn / Winter tour of 31 dates across the UK, visiting some of the country’s most iconic venues. Renowned for his exuberant live shows, Jools will once again be backed by the full power and finesse of his […]

£40.50 – £58.00

Big Fish, Little Fish, Halloween Special

J1 at Cambridge Junction Clifton Way, Cambridge

Following seven amazing events at the iconic Cambridge Junction the original family rave returns for a spooky spectacular Halloween special! The legendary DJ Food (Ninja Tune) + Oldschool/Drum and Bass veteran DJ Trax (Moving Shadow) will be playing (grown up) tunes to the family ravers. Expect House/rave classics through to Drum and Bass. The event […]

£10.50 – £13.00

The Gang of Three

Cambridge Arts Theatre 6 St Edward's Passage, Cambridge

In the heat of economic crisis, the Labour Party’s Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Tony Crosland clash over the soul of British socialism. Sharp, witty and gripping, the play captures towering intellects, fierce rivalries and the private tensions behind public power. Following a sell-out smash hit run in London, Robert Khan and Tom Salinksy’s electrifying […]

£22.00

Things I Know to be True

ADC Theatre Park Street, Cambridge

What happens when love turns to grief? Six people, tied by their family bond, must navigate the interpersonal tensions and individual aspirations that threaten to tear them apart. "Things I Know To Be True is about love in many of its forms. At times comforting and supportive. At others suffocating and destructive. But always love." […]

£10.00 – £18.50

John Hackett Band and EBB at Cambridge Junction

Cambridge Junction (J2) Clifton Way, Cambridge

John Hackett Band delivered an eclectic, technically accomplished performance that embodied the core spirit of prog rock. It moved from lyrical flute passages to dynamic instrumental flourishes. Together, the band created a sound that was intricate and engaging, fusing elements of rock, jazz, classical, and funk, but never lost cohesion. They revealed a depth of […]

£20.00

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