We are thrilled to announce our Spring 2026 season, as we prepare to reopen our doors after a transformation redevelopment project.
The reopening begins with The Arts Theatre Cambridge’s homegrown Christmas pantomime, Sleeping Beauty (27 Nov 2025 – 4 Jan 2026). Cambridge’s favourite panto dame Matt Crosby celebrates his twentieth year on The Arts Theatre stage and will be joined by UK Pantomime Award-winning actor Steven Roberts. The cast is completed by a host of West End performers including Tricia Adele-Turner (Stranger Things: The First Shadow), Matt Harrop (The Phantom of the Opera), Tanisha Butterfield (Mamma Mia!), Joseph Hewlett (Madagascar the Musical) and Daisy Twells (Heathers).
Two highlights of the season include visits from Sir Derek Jacobi and Trevor Nunn, who both have special connections to The Arts Theatre Cambridge. Sir Derek Jacobi in Conversation with Richard Clifford (29 Jan) will be a one-night-only opportunity of incredible insight and joy of Shakespeare, and Trevor Nunn’s production of Noël Coward’s glitteringly risqué comedy Easy Virtue (19 Feb – 7 Mar) will brim with Coward’s mischievous charm and wit.
As part of its first ever UK tour, the phenomenally popular musical Operation Mincemeat (19-24 Oct) dubbed the best-reviewed show in West End history, will visit Cambridge. Musical fans can also enjoy Guys and Dolls (14-17 Jan) by Cambridge Operatic Society, Rock and Roll Man (16-21 Mar), the West End hit The Choir of Man (31 Mar – 4 Apr) and Blood Brothers (15-19 Sep).
Families can enjoy a host of brilliantly engaging children’s theatre; There’s A Snake in my School (4-5 May), A Squash and a Squeeze (27 – 31 May) and The Gruffalo (17-21 Jun).
Star-studded dramas include The Rivals (3-7 Feb) starring Robert Bathurst and Patricia Hodge, Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts (10-14 Feb) starring Tom Chambers, Single White Female (10-14 Mar) starring Kym Marsh, The Constant Wife (23-28) starring Kara Tointon and Death on the Nile starring Mark Hadfield.
There are three world-class operas to enjoy. OperaUpClose visit Cambridge for the first time with Gianni Schicci (or Where There’s a Will) (15 Mar) and English Touring Opera (7-9 May) return with The Gondoliers and Pagliacci.
The Arts Theatre are proud to welcome The Sixth Sense Collective and their production of What I (Don’t) Know About Autism (29 Mar), a celebration of autistic identity performed by a local cast of neurodivergent young actors.
Other highlights include the return of The Marlowe Society with Twelfth Night (21-24 Jan), Murder, She Didn’t Write (30-31 Jan), Cambridge Footlights (1 & 8 Feb), Pulman & Stilgoe: Hooray for Hollywood (22 Mar), Spitfire Girls (7-11 Apr), The Glenn Miller Orchestra (12 Apr), Noughts and Crosses (15-18 Apr) by acclaimed author Malorie Blackman, War of the Worlds (29 Apr – 2 May) and the return of the hugely popular comedian Stewart Lee (14-16 Jun).
