Sunday, May 19, 2013
The atmospheric Leper Chapel off Newmarket Road is one of the most ancient buildings still standing in the city of Cambridge, and – so the story goes – one of the most haunted. It’s a fitting location then, for an evening of seasonal shivers this month, when local performer Robert Lloyd Parry welcomes the brave-hearted [...]
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Coming to the Corn Exchange at the start of February is a stage show that will have people under the age of about seven going slightly berserk with excitement. Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom, as parents of younger children will probably know, is one of the most popular TV programmes for little’uns on Channel 5, [...]
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This year’s Christmas show at The Junction looks set to be unlike any festive theatrical experience you’ve encountered before. Cambridge’s own performance queen Bryony Kimmings, along with a few friends and a bit of help from the audience, will be investigating just what it is that makes this, as the man says, the most wonderful [...]
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Matt Crosby has been an integral part of the Cambridge Arts Theatre panto for many years now. After numerous years playing the scene-stealing role of Silly Billy this year he’s donning his frock, slapping on the rouge, and playing the part of Dame Trott in Jack and the Beanstalk. He also found time to co-write [...]
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The Corn Exchange’s forthcoming Christmas season is looking jam-packed to say the least. The City of London Sinfonia get the festive entertainment under way with a concert of Christmas music on 1 December, before a sparkling production of award-winning musical Chicago hits the stage, and a special concert by folk superstar Kate Rusby. But the [...]
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Following its sell out when it first appeared in the city in 2009, the hit rock musical stage show Vampires Rock makes a welcome return this October, performing appropriately on Halloween. The show stars its creator Steve Steinman, who started his musical life performing as Meat Loaf on the TV show ‘Stars In Their Eyes’. [...]
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Graham Linehan is one of the finest comedy writers to have emerged on our TV screens in the last couple of decades. Father Ted; The IT Crowd; two classic surreal and ridiculous sitcoms (the former written with Arthur Mathews) that stand the test of being repeated ad nauseum on late night channels – whenever you [...]
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The Mumford Theatre, one of the city’s most reliable venues for intriguing and entertaining live entertainment, kicks off its new season this month in typical style – with an eclectic blend of comedy, drama and family shows… First comes an appearance from a pair of divas teaching the world to be a more gorgeous place! [...]
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Rhys Darby is probably best known to us Brits as Murray Hewitt, deputy cultural attache at the New Zealand consulate and occasional band manager in the seminal comedy music series Flight Of The Conchords. But Kiwi comedian Rhys is also now a movie world player, having appeared in films such as The Boat That Rocked, [...]
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No event in Cambridge this summer will attract more dedicated a following than The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy live radio show. Not only will many have loved the books but they will have enjoyed the BBC Radio 4 show from the late 1970s, which added the aural pleasures of superb production and acting to [...]
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