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News In Brief: frightening findings, firewomen, and free festivals
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (44+ words) A light-hearted round up of this week’s stories, from a musical theatre performance to developments in astronomy Sunday September 6 2026, 4:38pm A fiery musical comes to Cambridge An ‘Out of the Ordinary’ festival News In Brief: Bombs, BBC dramas, and borrowed plates...
The death of the artsy ‘third space’? | Varsity
1+ week, 4+ day ago (89+ words) Freya Roodhouse offers Cambridge’s museums as a solution to the dying third space Tuesday September 1 2026, 1:07pm “We must expand our view to those other contenders that make a bid for artistic attention” “We should seize the third spaces freely provided for…...
Cambridge’s hidden artists
2+ week, 4+ day ago (156+ words) Mae Auckland argues that the best art is the kind that’s never shared Tuesday August 25 2026, 6:31pm While the city of Cambridge is famous for its creative output, the element of Cambridge’s artistic scene that interests me the most is perhaps its…...
Pretty vacant or pretty clever?
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (138+ words) Millie Wooler defends beautiful theatre against the compulsion to be ‘clever’ Sunday August 9 2026, 9:00am Then, I stopped myself: Why? Why does it have to be clever to be beautiful? Can it not just be beautiful on its own? “Appreciating a play…...
Pitlochry’s Lear and setting Shakespeare
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (146+ words) Lauren Cuthbertson explores the joys and power of setting Shakespeare and the privilege of theatre on your doorstep Saturday July 25 2026, 8:52pm “A strong cast aside, what made Lear shine […] was its setting” “The specific privilege it is to live in a…...
Join Varsity’s visual team this Michaelmas
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (340+ words) Now is the ideal time to join the beating heart of student journalism in Cambridge by Daisy Bates & Bibi Boyce Wednesday July 15 2026, 11:29am Applications to join Varsity’s visual team in Michaelmas 2026 have now opened. Varsity is the oldest and only independent…...
Space Invaders: inside Meg’s ‘art gallery of her own’
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (201+ words) Jessica Leer takes a peek at one of Peterhouse’s prettiest rooms Tuesday June 30 2026, 8:49pm I first saw Meg’s room sort of randomly, while running around Cambridge during one of those sorts of weeks where you must detangle fifty projects at once....
A celebration of Queer Love in sacred spaces: Romeo and Juliet in Peterhouse Chapel
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (82+ words) Reimagining Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy, this production looks set to be a celebration of love perfect for this Pride month Tuesday June 16 2026, 7:49pm “There’s a connection there that I feel is very fitting for a pride play” “It has been able to…...
Spotlighting student designers
3+ mon, 20+ hour ago (494+ words) Joanne Yau and Flossie Bullion interview Cambridge’s young fashion creatives by Flossie Bullion & Joanne Yau Friday June 12 2026 For Jessica Hammond, a Politics finalist at Murray Edwards College and founder of ‘Zwuanli’, fashion is rooted in movement. Inspired by her Tanzanian…...
Bold beginnings in the Corpus Playroom
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (192+ words) Set to fully debut next year, Raindrops on a White Pear Blossom is a promising and emotionally compelling new play, argues Millie Wooler Wednesday June 3 2026, 7:10pm Raindrops is part of the Corpus Playroom’s Blank Canvas series, a collection of three new…...