Demon Dentist is enough to set your teeth on edge. It’s about a witch who steals children’s teeth. Instead of leaving a shiny pound coin under...
There is humanity and humour, and some great characterisation in this story of a couple fleeing war-blasted Syria. The play opens with The beekeeper, Nuri and...
Laura Wade’s clever and funny play sparkles like a 1950s gleaming kitchen – or rather like the 1950s ideal kitchen seen in women’s magazines. It opens...
The audience was on its feet and yelled for more as the curtain fell on the first night of Fishermen’s Friends at Cambridge Arts Theatre. This...
Of Mice and Men is a powerful production of a difficult and harrowing play. There are some outstanding performances from a strong cast. Based on the...
This is an elegant opera performed with wit and verve creating a sparkling evening of entertainment. English Touring Opera presents Handel’s Giulio Cesare with a superb...
Launched in 1977 as a Play for Today on BBC Television, Abigail’s Party – an evening where two married couples get drunk and reveal their secrets – truly...
This play is a tour de force – the performances will be among the best you will see on stage anywhere this year. The Shawshank Redemption,...
In a macabre twist on the seaside postcard cliché, Wish You Were Dead describes the holiday from Hell. The play has been adapted by Shaun McKenna from the...
Mog The Forgetful Cat by The Wardrobe Ensemble at Cambridge Arts Theatre. This is a delightful show, Judith Kerr’s story about Mog the Forgetful Cat is...
This play is superb. The performances are immaculate and from the opening lines to the last word it’s very funny. An early Alan Ayckbourn work is...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Cambridge University’s Marlowe Society at Cambridge Arts Theatre. This production reminded me of an old witticism. Noel Coward, having seen an...
In this riotous stage version of The Lavender Hill Mob (a beloved Ealing Comedy film from 1951), eight actors are on stage the whole of the...
This festive season, the Cambridge Arts Theatre pantomime has excelled itself. Dick Whittington is a scintillating show which enthralled the audience from beginning to end- and...
Rolan Bell who won Best Villain after playing Uncle Abanazar in Aladdin, last year’s panto at Cambridge Arts Theatre, is King Rat this Christmas. He told...
Being old is for sissies says a character in this play at Cambridge Arts Theatre, which is about having adventures after everyone thinks you have had...
It is a lovely irony that a book that is all about how to catch your man and keep him can be performed so excellently on...