Cambridge Arts Theatre, founded by John Maynard Keynes in 1936, celebrates its anniversary with an autumn line-up featuring Stefanie Powers, Amanda Holden, Stephanie Beacham, Robert Powell and Felicity Kendal.
Hollywood star Stefanie Powers, best known here for appearing in the long-running TV series Hart to Hart alongside Robert Wagner, will star with Clive Francis in a new production of 84 Charing Cross Road.
Amanda Holden will be joined by Coronation Street's Angela Griffin, Eastenders stars Tracy-Ann Oberman and Tamzin Outhwaite and Emmerdale's Nicola Stephenson in the tap-dance comedy Stepping Out by Richard Harris.
Stephanie Beacham will play HRH Princess Margaret in Richard Stirling's new play A Princess Undone and Robert Powell will be joined by Liza Goddard in Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking. Also, Felicity Kendal will appear in E M Forster's A Room With A View.
There will also be visits to Cambridge of productions including The Woman in Black, Frank McGuinness's Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and English Touring Theatre's adaptation of Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. The triennial Cambridge Greek Play tradition continues with a pairing of Antigone and Lysistrata, performed in the original Greek with English surtitles.
For younger theatregoers, there will be productions of Stiles and Drewe's musical take on The 3 Little Pigs, Judith Kerr's The Tiger Who Came to Tea and David Walliams's Gangsta Granny.
The Christmas pantomime will be Dick Whittington and his Cat, featuring Matt Crosby as Sarah the Cook.
Productions so far announced for 2017 include the touring production of The Full Monty, Cambridge University Marlowe Society's Edward II and Mischief Theatre Company's The Play That Goes Wrong.