Whether you are visiting the city of live here and just want to know what’s on in Cambridge in October 2023, 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 October guide!
Half term fun!
Image courtesy of the Sedgewick Museum With half term to fill, check out our fun things to do in Cambridge guide. Also see our museums in Cambridge – many of which are FREE. More ideas for cheap days out here.
Pumpkin Patches!
If you are looking for Halloween fun this October, check out our the best pumpkin patches in Cambridge here.
And the rest: Cambridge Corn Exchange:
The Junction:
WILL TELL AND THE BIG BAD BARON
Comic adventure with knights, puppets, song and dance!
MARK SIMMONS: QUIP OFF THE MARK
TROOP SKILL SHARING SPACE
Tue 03 Oct – Tue 07 Nov 2023
HARD-FI
Plus support from Tom A. Smith
THE UNDERTONES & GUESTS TOM ROBINSON BAND
VERY BRITISH PROBLEMS: LIVE
VLMV
Plus support from D Lings
MARK THOMAS: ENGLAND & SON
Mon 09 Oct – Tue 10 Oct 2023
A play written by Ed Edwards and directed by Cressida Brown
CREATIVE CAFÉ
Wed 11 Oct – Wed 13 Dec 2023
THE GAMES WE PLAY
Award-winning contemporary circus company Gandini Juggling celebrates its 30th anniversary
SHORT SCRATCHINGS
Wed 11 Oct – Wed 25 Oct 2023
An informal and friendly scratch night of very early stage work in progress
SKINDRED
Plus support from BLACKGOLD
THE NOISE NEXT DOOR’S COMEDY LOCK-IN
Experience an evening of improvised anarchy with the biggest names in comedy.
SAM AVERY: HOW NOT TO BE A TERRIBLE PARENT
ABA SHANTI I SOUND SYSTEM
ANDY PARSONS: BAFFLINGLY OPTIMISTIC
SCOTT BENNETT: GREAT SCOTT!
CAMBRIDGE CLUBBATHON 2023
DREAM NAILS ALL-AGES CONCERT
A special all-ages show from the London-based queer punks.
IAIN STIRLING: WORK IN PROGRESS
RACHEL FAIRBURN: SHOWGIRL
NABIL ABDULRASHID: THE PURPLE PILL
JUST ANNOUNCED
REUBEN KAYE: THE BUTCH IS BACK
RIVAL SONS
at Cambridge Corn Exchange
ALY BAIN, ALE MÖLLER, BRUCE MOLSKY
SAMANTHA FISH + JESSE DAYTON
Plus special guests The Commoners
THE REST OF OUR LIVES
A joyful dose of dance, theatre, circus and games.
GHOST STORIES BY CANDLELIGHT
Chilling, contemporary tales and haunting new folk music from the ‘Witch Counties’ of East Anglia.
MOTIVE PRESENTS MOZEY
An event for 16 & 17 year olds
KING HAMMOND & THE RUDE BOY MAFIA
CLUB URANIA – OCTOBER
Queer cabaret for the arty crowd.
NEON MOON HALLOWEEN CLUB CIRQUE
NEW ROUTES – SIMEON HAMMOND DALLAS AND FRANCIS BOTCHERBY & ARTEMIS
WIFI WARS: HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
THE GODS ARE ALL HERE
Beautifully weaving African diaspora myth and folktales with an astonishing family story
JOHN ROBINS: HOWL – EXTRA DATE
Tue 3 – Sat 7 October
Cambridge American Stage Tour
ROMEO AND JULIET
William Shakespeare
ADC THEATRE
Wed 4 – Sat 7 October
Cambridge Footlights
THE FOOTLIGHTS INTERNATIONAL TOUR SHOW 2023: THE SEARCH CONTINUES
CORPUS PLAYROOM
Tue 10 – Sat 14 October
Brickhouse Theatre Company
THE ALMIGHTY SOMETIMES
Kendall Feaver
ADC THEATRE
Tue 10 – Sat 14 October
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Lorraine Hansberry
CORPUS PLAYROOM
Wed 11 – Sat 14 October
THE FOUR SEASONS OF TYLER BRANCH
Jake Stewart
CORPUS PLAYROOM
Tue 17 – Sat 21 October
METAMORPHOSIS
Steven Berkoff, adapted from Franz Kafka
ADC THEATRE
Tue 17 – Sat 21 October
SUMMER AND SMOKE
Tennessee Williams
CORPUS PLAYROOM
Wed 18 – Sat 21 October
MILLENNIUM BABY
Alix Addinall
CORPUS PLAYROOM
Tue 24 – Sat 28 October
EXIT THE KING
Eugene Ionesco, translated by Donald Watson
ADC THEATRE
Tue 24 – Sat 28 October
THE WELKIN
Lucy Kirkwood
See events here
The Portland Arms:
See the music events for May at the Portland Arms here.
Stapleford Granary:
More about Cambridge festivals here.
More things to do in Cambridge here.
Check out our monthly events guide here.
