Cambridge Theatre
Address
Cambridge Theatre
Earlham Street
London
WC2 9HU
Directions
Closest tube station is Covent Garden/Leicester Square.
Access
Infra Red
Wheelchair access
Disabled Toilets
Air Conditioned
Map
Nearest Underground
Covent Garden tube station is just around the corner on Long Acre and is served by the Piccadilly Line.
Train
Kings Cross St Pancras:
From Covent Garden, take Piccadilly Line northbound. Estimated time 10 mins.
Euston:
From Covent Garden, take Piccadilly Line northbound and change at Kings Cross St Pancras. Take Northern line westbound. Estimated time 15 mins.
Marylebone:
From Covent Garden, take Piccadilly line southbound and change at Piccadilly Circus. Take Bakerloo line northbound. Estimated time 20 mins.
Paddington:
From Covent Garden, take Piccadilly line southbound and change at Piccadilly Circus. Take Bakerloo line northbound. Estimated time 25 mins.
Waterloo:
From Covent Garden, take Piccadilly line southbound and change at Leicester Square. Take Northern line southbound. Estimated time 12 mins.
Charing Cross:
From Covent Garden, take Piccadilly line southbound and change at Leicester Square. From here, you may take the Northern line southbound to Charing Cross or walk down past Trafalgar Square. Either way, this should take you about 10 mins.
London Bridge:
Follow instructions above for Charing Cross. Trains to London Bridge leave Charing Cross mainline station every ten minutes. Estimated time 25 mins.
Liverpool Street:
From Covent Garden, take Piccadilly line northbound and change at Holborn. Take Central line eastbound to Liverpool Street. Estimated time 15 mins.
Victoria:
From Covent Garden, take Piccadilly line southbound and change at Green Park. Take Victoria Line southbound. Estimated time 17 mins.
Buses : Covent Garden is served by numbers 1, 14, 19, 22, 24, 38, 55 and 176. Check routes before you travel.
The Cambridge Theatre in London is a relatively modern theatre, being built in 1930, and faces Seven Dials. The theatre was built using steel and concrete and is notable for its elegant and clean lines of design. The theatre was refurbished in 1950-the original gold and silver decor was painted over in red, and candelabras and chandeliers were added. In 1987, in order to restore the original decor, the theatre was once again refurbished, this time by Carl Toms.
Productions at the Cambridge Theatre have been characterised by relatively short runs and the theatre has experienced several dark periods and was used for trade film shows in the late 1930s and again in 1969 as a cinema.
Notable productions include Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence in 1963 (678 performances), Bruce Forsyth in Little Me in 1964 (334 performances) and in the late 1970s the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago ran for 590 performances. More recently the ‘rock’n'roll’ musical Return to the Forbidden Planet which was based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest and used 1950s and 1960s songs opened in September 1989 and lasted until early 1993, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical-beating the favourite, Miss Saigon.
When the controversial show “Jerry Springer – The Opera” finished at the Cambridge Theatre, it was the longest running show on record at the theatre. This was followed by a month run of illusiotist Derren Brown’s Something Wicked This Way Comes tour, before the London premiere of Flying Music’s Dancing In The Streets which opened on 7th July 2005. This finished its run in April 2006 prior to the transfer of Chicago moving across Theatreland from the Adelphi Theatre, to continue its London run into its tenth year. Chicago opened at the Cambridge from Friday 28 April, following its closure at the Adelphi on 22 April.
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