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Unique Cambridge
From making your own gin with one of the world’s most innovative distilleries, to trying the best of the Cambridge food scene – here are some uniquely Cambridge experiences to seek out during your stay
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Theatres & Cinemas
Theatres & Cinemas
Academy of Ancient Music
Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) is an orchestra based in Cambridge with a worldwide reputation for excellence in baroque and classical music.
ADC Theatre
We are a department of the University of Cambridge, and are the oldest University playhouse in the country.
Arts Picturehouse
A stylish cinema with three screens and relaxed café-bar.
Big Deal Comedy
Cambridgeshire's Award Winning Comedy Club, ensuring your night is unforgettable. “I’ve never laughed so much” - Carol, Cambridge “I will definitely be booking again” - Paul, Suffolk
Cambourne Comedy Club
Big Deal Comedy is well known for its fantastic comedy nights, with plenty of customer testimonials to prove it. "Such a good night, comedy was 1st rate and the bar efficient and reasonable. Will definitely be back" Andy, Cambourne
Cambridge Arts Theatre
One of the finest regional theatres in the UK, hosting world-class touring productions and many West-End transfers to the heart of Cambridge and the surrounding areas.
Cambridge Corn Exchange
The Cambridge Corn Exchange is one of the UK's popular music and arts venue, hosting some of the worlds best known artists.
Cambridge Junction
The venue in Cambridge where art meets life.
Cambridge Youth Opera
CYO broadens the creative horizons of young people through opera. Working across Cambridgeshire and East Anglia, we do not charge for participation in our core activities or place any barriers to access. CYO organises fully-staged opera productions with children, teenagers and young adults as well as working in partnership with schools to offer workshops and classroom-based activities. We build a foundation of inspiration, exploration and self-expression, enabling each young person to find and own their individual artistic voice.
Impressive PR
The incredible ‘Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’ is on a nationwide tour and will be at Peterborough’s New Theatre on 31st May. “Amazing! Absolutely brilliant! Congratulations The Showstoppers you took my 24hr challenge and succeeded 200%” ELAINE PAIGE Spontaneous musical comedy at its finest, it is the first ever long-form improv show to have a full West End run and to be nominated and win an Olivier Award! Completely improvised and genuinely entirely different every night, this is a must-see show! For those who haven’t yet experienced the live phenomenon that is ‘Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’, the show is a fully realised musical created on the spot from audience suggestions. The cast transform suggestions for settings, genres, musical styles and even the name of the show into ingenious storylines with hilarious characters. From Pink Floyd to Stephen Sondheim, via a primary school, Ancient Egypt, or a mattress shop – if the audience can suggest it, The Showstoppers will perform it. It’s hugely funny to watch. The group are long running, well known and renowned for their improvisation work. Most cast members have also received acclaim in their own right. The Showstoppers have been working on the show since 2008, figuring out how to improvise in increasingly esoteric styles, including musical, dance, straight theatre, and film genres to name but a few. In the Autumn of 2015, it became the first longform improv show to have a full run in the West End at the Apollo Theatre, for which it won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment & Family Show.
in situ: theatre company
in situ: is a ground-breaking theatre ensemble based in Cambridge. We perform site-specific and environmental work in non-theatre spaces. Professionally-run, in situ: works with a range of artists, actors and creative people on long-term collaborative projects to produce high-quality theatrical work using space, environment, extended vocality and technology.
Look at the View (a new comedy)
Look at the View a new comedy by Rupert Dick. Harston Village Hall 30 Nov, 1 & 2nd Dec
Saffron Hall
An award-winning concert hall attracting international artists situated just outside Cambridge in Saffron Walden
The Cambridge Impronauts
The Cambridge Impronauts are Cambridge's oldest improvised comedy troupe, founded in 2003 and primarily operating in the University of Cambridge's ADC theatre. We run quickfire, long-form and variety improvised comedy shows all year round and run weekly open workshops on Sundays between 11am and 1pm during the university's term time. We are available to hire for workshops and shows, contact us for more details: impronauts@gmail.com
Vue Cinema Cambridge
Vue Entertainment is part of Vue International - one of the world's leading cinema operators.
Did you know?
The imposing lamppost in the centre of Parker’s Piece bears the words Reality Checkpoint – believed to be a reference to the end of the university ‘bubble’ and the beginning of the real world, aka the rest of the city.