Happy new year everyone! Whether you are visiting the city of live here and just want to know all the things you can enjoy in Cambridge in January 2025, this guide of events will help you plan ahead for fun gigs, quality plays, and more. We try and keep the guide as up to date as possible but things change. Therefore do click through to the venues for bang up-to-date timings, dates and availability. On to the brand new January guide.

 

Cambridge Corn Exchange:

 From The Jam
  • Cambridge Corn Exchange
  • Sat 18 Jan 2025
  • 20:00
  • Tickets from £38.00

  • Live Music

WHITNEY – QUEEN OF THE NIGHT

  • Cambridge Corn Exchange
  • Sun 19 Jan 2025
  • 19:30
  • Tickets from £23.00

  • Special Event

Chinese New Year Gala

  • Cambridge Corn Exchange
  • Wed 22 Jan 2025
  • 19:00
  • Tickets from £16.00

Organised by the Chinese Students & Scholars Association in Cambridge (CSSA-CAM), the Cambridge Chinese New Year Gala has become one of the UK’s most eagerly anticipated cultural events, uniting students, scholars, and distinguished guests from diverse communities.

  • Talks

Murder: Staged

  • Cambridge Corn Exchange
  • Fri 24 Jan 2025
  • 19:30
  • Tickets from £23.00

  • Live Music

Man in the Mirror

  • Cambridge Corn Exchange
  • Sat 25 Jan 2025
  • 19:30
  • Tickets from £27.00

  • Live Music

Wet Wet Wet

  • Cambridge Corn Exchange
  • Tue 28 Jan 2025
  • 19:30
  • Tickets from £36.00

  • Comedy

Nina Conti

  • Cambridge Corn Exchange
  • Fri 31 Jan 2025
  • 19:30
  • Tickets from £22.50

The Junction:

family
music

Nick Cope

music

The Fiver – January 18th

music

New Routes – Bête Noire and George Breakfast

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Sold Out
spoken

Seed Talks: The Science of The Multiverse: Do Parallel Universes Exist?

Discover the scientific controversy surrounding the idea of multiple universes and parallel worlds.
theatre

Frozen Light: The Ancient Oak of Baldor

A multi-sensory experience for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
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Sold Out
music
creative
community

Coldest in Cambridge

Meet the collective building a community across genres.
comedy

Tom Stade: Risky Business

music

The Fiver – January 24th

comedy

Jake Lambert: The Sunshine Kid

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Sold Out
comedy

Micky Overman: Hold On

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community
dance

Jandor School of Dancing – Let’s Dance

A family-orientated display of different genres of dance.
theatre
spoken
music

The Three Snake Leaves – Fairytales for grown-ups from the Grimm Forest

With storytellers Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton, and Sally Pomme Clayton and musician Sheema Mukherjee.
comedy

Sophie Duker: BUT DADDY I LOVE HER

comedy

Rob Newman: Where The Wild Things Are

music
community

Heart of Noise – January

HON Cambridge is an experimental live electronics event series.

ADC Theatre

Tue 14 – Sat 18 January
Festival Players

Little Shop of Horrors

Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman, Music by Alan Menken
Corpus Playroom
Wed 15 – Sat 18 January
The Ministry of Unplanned Occurrences

Space Oddities

ADC Theatre
Tue 21 – Sat 25 January
European Theatre Group

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare
Corpus Playroom
Wed 22 – Thu 23 January
BOATS Theatre

Who Do You Think You Were?

Sean Lang

More about Cambridge festivals here.

More things to do in Cambridge here.

Check out our monthly events guide here.

Happy January everyone!