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Sleeping Beauty

Join us this Christmas and let the magic unfold as the curtain rises on a brand-new pantomime, and an exciting new chapter for The Arts Theatre!

  • 27th November 2025 - 4th January 2026
  • 7:00 pm - 5:00 pm

You are invited to attend a grand reawakening…

The wait is over! Following an extensive refurbishment, you are invited to attend a grand reawakening… as The Arts Theatre presents a dazzling new production of Sleeping Beauty.

Cambridge’s favourite dame Matt Crosby celebrates his twentieth year on The Arts Theatre stage, and will be joined by UK Pantomime Award-winning Steven Roberts. The cast is completed by a host of West End performers including Tricia Adele-Turner (Stranger Things: The First Shadow), Matt Harrop (The Phantom of the Opera), Tanisha Butterfield (Mamma Mia!), Joseph Hewlett (Madagascar the Musical) and Daisy Twells (Heathers).

In an enchanted kingdom Princess Rose is cursed on the day of her christening by the wicked Carabosse. The Princess is destined to prick her finger on a spinning wheel before her eighteenth birthday, falling into a deep slumber for 100 years unless awakened by true love’s kiss.

For her own protection Rose is sent to live deep within the Botanic Gardens, only returning to Trumpington Castle on the eve of her eighteenth birthday. However Carabosse has other ideas… Who will take the perilous journey to save the kingdom from the evil fairy’s spell, once and for all?

Join us this Christmas and let the magic unfold as the curtain rises on a brand-new pantomime, and an exciting new chapter for The Arts Theatre. Book your tickets today!

Photography by Matt Crockett
Designed by Rebecca Pitt
Videography by Will Kenning

 

BSL interpreted performance: Sat 6 Dec, 11am

Relaxed performances: Sat 6 Dec, 11am & Fri 2 Jan, 11am

Captioned performance: Sat 13 Dec, 2pm

Audio Described performance (Touch Tour available): Sun 14 Dec, 3pm

Facilities

  • Accessibility Guide
  • Bar
  • Cloakroom facilities
  • Disabled Accessibility
  • Facilities for Disabled Guests
  • wheelchair access
  • wheelchair accessible

Accessibility Facilities

  • Accessibility Guide
  • Assistance dogs welcome
  • Audio description and touch tours
  • Staff available to assist
  • Wheel chair accessible
  • wheelchair access
  • Wheelchair accessible
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