Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter I joined the Footlights pretty much by accident. By then, I’d been a student at Cambridge for more than four years; I’d finished my ...

Fifty or more years ago, the Cambridge Footlights amounted to little more than undergraduates donning straw hats, blazers and white slacks and sashaying up and down stage giving it the old soft shoe ...

Considering how successful Cambridge has been as a theatrical training ground for writers and performers, outsiders may be surprised to find that the university has no drama school. The whole thing, ...

The Footlights society has launched a thousand famous faces. We look back at some of the biggest names and speak to a former member about what it was like to be in the comedy troupe Chances are you’ll ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited (Reach Publishing Services Limited) For more than 50 years the Cambridge Footlights has ...

Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are just a few of the huge stars to were previously part of the Cambridge Footlights. The Cambridge University student comedy troupe is known as a breeding ...

The world's most famous student revue company is preparing for its 40th anniversary in the uncomfortable knowledge that it might not have gone on but for a donation from British American Tobacco.

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A photo of Dame Emma Thompson, Sandi Toksvig and Jan Ravens performing together in a student comedy show is on display as part of a new exhibition in Cambridge. The exhibition, called The Rising Tide: ...

Well-educated comics are benefitting from the 'Footlights factor' and are scooping up all the top jobs. That is the view of comedian Bob Mortimer, who says Oxbridge-educated entertainers have a lot ...