Whether you are visiting the city of live here and just want to know what’s on in Cambridge in October 2024, 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:
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The Junction:
Short Scratchings
Thu 26 Sep – Wed 16 Oct 2024
Short extracts of very new work in progress by members of our artist network, Troop.
Schalk Bezuidenhout: Keeping Up
An Evening Without Kate Bush
Howl with the Hounds of Love and dance on the moors with Wuthering Heights!
Industry Day
Explore the different career paths available in the arts.
The Men They Couldn’t Hang
Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me
Kid Carpet & The Noisy Garden Centre
Catchy songs, lofi puppetry & audience participation!
Count Binface: Bindependence Day
Spontaneous Potter
An entirely improvised wizarding comedy play.
Nobody’s Empire: An Evening with Stuart Murdoch
Nik Kershaw – The 1984 Tour
Cardinal Black
Plus support from Rosie Frater-Taylor
Unbroken
The debut solo performance by physical theatre and circus artist, Nikki Rummer.
SK Shlomo: Breathe
A rollercoaster love letter to the lifesaving power of music.
Carl Hutchinson: Today Years Old
Club Urania – October
Queer cabaret for the arty crowd.
The Cambridge Dread Festival
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Plus support from shunTA!
Aurie Styla: The Aurator – EXTRA DATE
WiFi Wars
A live comedy game show where you all play along!
Forced Entertainment: Signal to Noise
Wed 16 Oct – Thu 17 Oct 2024
Forced Entertainment present a powerful mix of performance magic and off-hand deconstruction.
UK SUBS + RAMONAS + KNOCK OFF
Matt Bragg: Matt Bragg Has Nothing Wrong With Him
Súper Chefs
Cook, sing, and dance in this fun, feel-good interactive musical.
The Lovely Eggs
Plus support from British Birds and poet Violet Malice
Just Announced
John Finnemore, Among Other
Sooz Kempner: Class Of 2000
Red Richardson: Bugatti Live
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Last Few Tickets
The Bluetones
Plus support from The Loose Cut
New Routes – Amy Hollinrake and Melody Coles
Rick Buckler: A Night of Music & Memories
Altered Images
Plus support from Vanity Fairy
Los Bitchos
Plus support from Faux Real
Ginger Johnson Blows Off!
Michael Odewale: Thoughts On Shuffle
Iron & Wine
Plus support from Lizzie No
Tue 1 – Sat 5 October
Corkscrew Theatre Company
The Man Who Argued Himself to Death
Colin Swash
ADC Theatre
Tue 8 – Sat 12 October
Cambridge American Stage Tour
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
ADC Theatre
Thu 10 – Sat 12 October
Cambridge Footlights
The Cambridge Footlights Tour Show
Corpus Playroom
Tue 15 – Sat 19 October
Skylight
David Hare
ADC Theatre
Tue 15 – Sat 19 October
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov, translated by Michael Frayn
Corpus Playroom
Wed 16 – Sat 19 October
Cambridge Impronauts
The Egg
ADC Theatre
Wed 16 – Sat 19 October
Fletcher Players
Attachment: The Leech Show
James Allen
Corpus Playroom
Tue 22 – Sat 26 October
A Comedy About a Priest
Rose Beedle
ADC Theatre
Tue 22 – Sat 26 October
Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club
August Wilson’s Fences
August Wilson
Corpus Playroom
Wed 23 – Sat 26 October
BREAD Theatre and Film
Being Friends
Robert Holman
Corpus Playroom
Tue 29 October – Sat 2 November
BREAD Theatre and Film
Our Town Needs a Nando’s
Samantha O’Rourke
ADC Theatre
Tue 29 October – Sat 2 November
Dancing at Lughnasa
Brian Friel
Corpus Playroom
Wed 30 October – Sat 2 November
It’s News To Him
Finlay Wyer
ADC Theatre
Wed 30 October – Sat 2 November
Dragtime!
Dragtime! Presents: Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun
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.
