Camdram

ADC Theatre

Park Street, Cambridge

The ADC Theatre is one of the smallest departments of the University of Cambridge, and is the oldest University playhouse in the country. Plays have been presented on the site since 1855. The ADC Theatre is the centre of University drama in Cambridge, led almost entirely by students with no Faculty involvement.

We aim to provide opportunities to experience and learn about all aspects of theatre, while presenting professional standard productions. The ADC Theatre has helped to launch the careers of many theatre luminaries, including Sir Ian McKellen, Rachel Weisz and Emma Thompson.

There are several student companies resident to the ADC Theatre including Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, the Cambridge Footlights, Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society and the Fletcher Players.

Find out more and see what's on by visiting our website at https://www.adctheatre.com/.

Contact ADC Theatre

Get involved with shows at the ADC Theatre:
Mr Burns is looking for an ASSISTANT MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Want to help us figure out what the nuclear apocalypse sounds like? Then this is the show for you. We're looking for an Assistant Musical Director  to help out with some light arrangement, piano accompaniment and general musical assistant. Relatively high-standard piano is required for the role, as we'd like you to record a piano backing track to be used during the show.

    Contact Perrin Ford (they/them) pf378@cam.ac.uk, Emma Gibson (they/she/he) eg632@cam.ac.uk, Joshua Robey (he/him) jjr55@cam.ac.uk before 3rd Jun 2023 23:00 for more details.

    SEVEN SKETCHY SINS IS LOOKING FOR A CO-DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER!

    Seven Sketchy Sins (week four ADC late) is looking for a Co-Director  and Producer ! If you want to get involved in this delightfully devilish week four sketch show, check out the following application pack!

      Contact hb628@cam.ac.uk before 17th Jun 2023 01:00 for more details.

      🍸🎉 The Drowsy Chaperone 🍸🎉 AUDITIONS NOW OPEN

      🍸Pop the champagne Yall! We are finally opening auditions for 🎉THE DROWSY CHAPERONE🎉 the ADC Week 4 Main!! Auditions will be June 15, 16, and 17th with a self tape deadline of June 18th! **All information can be found in the audition pack:** https://docs.google.com/file/d/1NDL-a2Qm-j1wfh7k7RiQPGEOPr7mtosD/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword

      • Thu 15th Jun, 10:00–13:00, Larkum Studio
      • Fri 16th Jun, 10:00–15:00, Larkum Studio
      • Sat 17th Jun, 10:00–12:00, Larkum Studio

      Contact jar203@cam.ac.uk, bdw39@cam.ac.uk before 19th Jun 2023 01:00 for more details.

      🍸🎉 The Drowsy Chaperone 🍸🎉 is looking for a TON of Designer roles! Including: Set, Sound, Lighting, Costumes, and a Choreographer!

      🍸🎉 The Drowsy Chaperone 🍸🎉 is looking for a TON of Designer roles! Including: Set, Sound, Lighting, Costumes, and a Choreographer ! Check out our Prod Pack: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1HoEfTUstlVPRJsSriMv5dGb2coXziciX/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword Please email all applications to Beck and I (bdw39, jar203) by Sunday 11 June 11:59pm. If you have any questions, or need an extension, please send me a message!

        Contact jar203@cam.ac.uk, bdw39@cam.ac.uk before 12th Jun 2023 01:00 for more details.

        🍸🎉 The Drowsy Chaperone is opening up application for TD,SM,DSM, ASM, Head Carpenter, and WIG MANAGER🍸🎉

        🍸We have so many fun tech roles opening up! 🍸Including but not limited to: TD ,SM ,DSM , ASM , Head Carpenter , and WIG MANAGER Check out our Prod Pack: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1HoEfTUstlVPRJsSriMv5dGb2coXziciX/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword

          Contact jar203@cam.ac.uk, bdw39@cam.ac.uk before 12th Jun 2023 01:00 for more details.

          🍸🎉 The Drowsy Chaperone is opening up application for AD, Producer, Welfare, and Social Media Manager🍸🎉

          🍸🎉 The Drowsy Chaperone 🍸🎉 is looking for a TON of Prod roles! Including but not limited to: -Assistant Director  -Producer  -Social Media Manager -Welfare Officer

            Contact jar203@cam.ac.uk, bdw39@cam.ac.uk before 12th Jun 2023 01:00 for more details.

            Mr Burns is looking for Assistant Producer(s)

            Feeling at a loose end towards the end of term? Keen to help bring the nuclear apocalypse to the ADC stage - with added Simpsons characters? Then this is the show for you! We're looking for an assistant producer  (or producers ) to be on hand to help out wherever and whenever you'd like, as the show enters its final stages. Whether it's costume assembly, lighting or sound operating, or keeping the Instagram updated, any and all help is appreciated!

              Contact Emma Gibson (they/she/he) eg632@cam.ac.uk and Joshua Robey (he/him) jjr55@cam.ac.uk before 3rd Jun 2023 23:00 for more details.

              Summer and Smoke Prod Team Applications Open!

              Applications open for Summer and Smoke Week 2 ADC Mainshow: Producer /assistant producer  Assistant director  Technical director  Lighting designer  Set designer  Sound designer  Deadline - 4th June at midday

                Contact ig401@cam.ac.uk before 5th Jun 2023 01:00 for more details.

                AD Applications for 5/11 are open!

                I'm looking for one or two Assistant Directors  for a large and ambitious show! I wan't fresh faces and fun ideas!

                  Contact tc583@cam.ac.uk before 13th Jun 2023 23:00 for more details.

                  5/11 Auditions are OPEN!

                  Looking for actors to make up a HUGE cast of 25+ roles!!

                  • Thu 15th Jun, 15:00–18:00, ADC Dressing Room 1
                  • Sat 17th Jun, 13:00–18:00, ADC Larkum Studio

                  Contact tc583@cam.ac.uk before 27th Jun 2023 00:30 for more details.

                  ADC Theatre 16:00 on 1st June Twitter

                  Join 'the most renowned sketch troupe of them all' (The Independent) as they embark on their annual world tour, performing to audiences across the UK and America! Get your tickets to 'The Search Continues' from adctheatre.com/footlights #theatre #comedy #sketch


                  ADC Theatre 13:00 on 31st May Twitter

                  We sat down with some of the ensemble of #Urinetown to chat about their favourite parts of the #musical, why they wanted to get involved, and why you should come see it! Read more over on our blog at adctheatre.com/urinetownblog2 and get your tickets ahead of opening night tomorrow!


                  ADC Theatre 16:00 on 28th May Twitter

                  Final rehearsals are underway and tickets are selling fast for Combined Actors of Cambridge's exciting new production of 'Educating Rita' by Willy Russell.
                  adctheatre.com/rita
                  #theatre #drama #play #cambridgearts
                  Photo by Ted Ridgway Watt


                  ADC Theatre 11:00 on 26th May Twitter

                  You only have a few more chances to catch this week's "effortlessly funny" (The Tab) production of one of the nation's most-loved comedies, 'One Man, Two Guvnors'! Get your tickets now from adctheatre.com/guvnor
                  Photo by Paul Ashley
                  #farce #comedy #drama #cambridgearts #theatre


                  ADC Theatre 09:00 on 25th May Twitter

                  'Urinetown' is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold! Read more on our blog over at adctheatre.com/urinetownblog1 and get your tickets from adctheatre.com/urinetown
                  Photo by Paul Ashley
                  #drama #musical #comedy


                  ADC Theatre 17:28 on 24th May Twitter

                  "An outrageous #comedy that... surpasses all expectations and will simply leave you laughing away!" (The Tab). Get your tickets now for this week's "effortlessly funny" production of 'One Man, Two Guvnors': adctheatre.com/guvnor
                  Photo by Paul Ashley #drama #farce #play


                  ADC Theatre 13:09 on 23rd May Twitter

                  As the dead rise from their graves and walk, so secrets slip from tongues and talk...

                  Gregory Miller's new play, 'Unearthed', debuts this week at the Corpus Playroom. Get your tickets from adctheatre.com/unearthed

                  #newwriting #drama #cambridgearts #play


                  ADC Theatre 16:00 on 21st May Twitter

                  Introducing the cast of 'Educating Rita'! Full of humour and poignancy, this beautifully written play is as relevant and unmissable today as it was in 1980, when it first hit the stage. Tickets are selling fast from adctheatre.com/rita
                  #drama #play Photo by Ted Ridgway Watt


                  ADC Theatre 13:33 on 20th May Twitter

                  Join 'the most renowned sketch troupe of them all' (The Independent) as they embark on their annual world tour, performing to audiences across the UK and America. Get your tickets now for a riotous #sketch show this May week!
                  adctheatre.com/footlights
                  #comedy #standup #footlights


                  ADC Theatre 10:00 on 19th May Twitter

                  The cast of the Festival Players' upcoming #musical 'Urinetown' have been spotted on Jesus Green! Tickets are on sale now from adctheatre.com/urinetown, and be sure to check out their Facebook page for a chance to win a pair of tickets! Photo by Simon Tagger.


                  ADC Theatre 13:00 on 18th May Twitter

                  'Mr Burns' is a post-apocalyptic dark comedy, crashing onto the ADC stage this June. Featuring an innovative set design and live music, get your tickets now from adctheatre.com/mrburns
                  #drama #theatre #cambridgearts #apocalypse #simpsons


                  ADC Theatre 18:18 on 17th May Twitter

                  "Perfect in execution" and "excelling consistently from every moment of silence to every crescendo of emotion" (The Tab), CUADC's 'The Seagull' opened to glowing reviews last night! Get your tickets for the rest of the run from adctheatre.com/seagull
                  Photo: Charlotte Conybeare


                  ADC Theatre 14:00 on 17th May Twitter

                  The Combined Actors of Cambridge are delighted to present Willy Russell's amusing and poignant drama, 'Educating Rita', this June at the Corpus Playroom. This beautifully written play is as relevant and unmissable today as it was in 1980: adctheatre.com/rita
                  #drama #theatre


                  ADC Theatre 19:30 on 16th May Twitter

                  This is not your traditional cancer story... Sick of It is a solo show on what it's like to be young and have cancer, told through memory, sound and song. All profits from the show will be donated to charity. Get your tickets for this week's run from adctheatre.com/sick


                  ADC Theatre 11:00 on 16th May Twitter

                  One Man… Two Guvnors… and an evening full of joy and laughter!

                  One of the nation's best-loved farces, 'One Man, Two Guvnors', opens at the ADC next week. Get your tickets now from adctheatre.com/guvnor

                  #comedy #farce #theatre #drama #cambridgearts


                  ADC Theatre 18:00 on 15th May Twitter

                  ‘Nourishing Mother Cambridge’ is a documentary about Cambridge, made by Cambridge students. It looks at the history of the town in the fens, tracing it all the way to the present: adctheatre.com/mother
                  #documentary #screening #film #student #theatre #almamater


                  ADC Theatre 15:30 on 15th May Twitter

                  The set is up and the cast and busy with their final rehearsals ahead of this week's run of Chekhov's 'The Seagull' at the ADC. Don't miss out and get your tickets now from adctheatre.com/seagull
                  #theatre #play #drama #classic #cambridgearts #chekhov


                  ADC Theatre 17:00 on 14th May Twitter

                  #Engineering has been dominated by men who learn about women by reading books on women written by men. So what happens when young women enter the 'men's place of work'? A brand new #comedy written by Nicola Irvine, 'Girl Torque' opens on Wednesday! adctheatre.com/girltorque


                  ADC Theatre 15:00 on 11th May Twitter

                  Following a sell-out preview last season, original musical, 'The Herb Garden', returns to the Corpus Playroom next week. Get your tickets from adctheatre.com/herbgarden
                  #musical #theatre #play #drama #newwriting #cambridgearts


                  ADC Theatre 10:30 on 9th May Twitter

                  The cast and crew of 'Spring Awakening' are hard at work making the finishing touches ahead of performances this week on the ADC stage! Get your tickets now from adctheatre.com/spring
                  #theatre #musical #springawakening #cambridgearts #drama Rehearsal photo by Paul Ashley


                  ADC Theatre 15:26 on 8th May Twitter

                  A heart-breaking exploration of unrequited love, the relationship between desire and domination, and what it means to grow up, Chekhov’s first major play is restaged next week for a contemporary audience: adctheatre.com/seagull #theatre #drama #chekhov Photo: Charlotte Conybeare


                  ADC Theatre 14:00 on 7th May Twitter

                  Join award-winning double act, Low Effort Sketches (ex-footlight Andy Bucks and Alice Wickersham), for an hour of sketch #comedy!
                  "Weapons-grade caterwauling that was unfollowable. Hilarious" - Chortle
                  For one night only this Tuesday, get your tickets from adctheatre.com/loweffort


                  ADC Theatre 11:00 on 6th May Twitter

                  It's a timeless story: teenagers entering sinisterly adult territory through the most childish choices and, well, making a right old mess of things! A new play by Maya Marie, 'Secreting' opens at the Corpus Playroom next week. Tickets are on sale now from adctheatre.com/secreting


                  ADC Theatre 16:59 on 5th May Twitter

                  "Big Brother is watching you."
                  '1984' opens next week at the Corpus Playroom and tickets are selling fast from adctheatre.com/1984
                  #bigbrother #drama #theatre #play #cambridgearts
                  Rehearsal photo by Ewan Woods


                  ADC Theatre 09:00 on 4th May Twitter

                  Sick of It explores what it's like to be young and have cancer, told through memory and song. Being in your 20s is hard enough, you don't need to be dying at the same time. Lily's solo show debuts at the Corpus Playroom. Tickets are on sale now from adctheatre.com/sickofit


                  ADC Theatre 13:00 on 3rd May Twitter

                  Opening night may have been postponed, but the cast and crew are ready and raring to bring their new adaptation of Complicite's 'Mnemonic' to the ADC stage. Get your tickets from adctheatre.com/mnemonic for this moving and technically ambitious piece of #devised #theatre.


                  ADC Theatre 11:00 on 3rd May Twitter

                  Jingled is a new #musical from Georgia Rawlins ('Life With You', 'Astrid') and Joe Venable ('On Your Bike', 'No Cash...'). Performed as a script in hand performance for one night only at the ADC before a run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Get your ticket from adctheatre.com/jingled


                  ADC Theatre 16:15 on 2nd May Twitter

                  We regret that this evening's performance of 'Mnemonic' has had to be cancelled. Tonight's performances at the Corpus Playroom and of 'Channel 4 Squared' at the ADC are still set to proceed as programmed. Ticket holders will be contacted by the ADC Box Office.


                  ADC Theatre 13:00 on 2nd May Twitter

                  In the age of streaming services, who can resist a refreshing, good old fashioned day of TV programming! 'Channel 4 Squared' broadcasts a wide variety of programmes, all in the form of #comedy sketches! Catch the show for one night only, tonight, at the ADC Theatre!


                  ADC Theatre 18:41 on 1st May Twitter

                  Oscar Wilde's #play enraptures the audience with quick-wit, sharp-tongues, and scandalous corruption. Transported to 1970s America in a new adaptation of this #classic, don't miss 'An Ideal Husband', all week at the Corpus Playroom!
                  adctheatre.com/husband


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                  Past shows

                  See all the shows that have been performed here at the venue history page.