- May 2023
Shake off the shackles of the library and come on down to the ADC bar for some exam term stress relief with your favourite drag performers! Join Dragtime!'s kings, queens and inbetweens as they gossip, giggle, and kiki your Easter blues away... Featuring lip sync, singing, spoken word, live music and so much more, don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to get to know some of Cambridge's freshest new drag talent.
- May 2023
“Shadowhunters have a saying: all the stories are true.” 15-year-old Clary Fray is embroiled in a world of angels, demons and mythical creatures on a journey to discover who she truly is. After her mother is kidnapped, she is forced to open her eyes to what lies beneath the mundane façade of New York City and find light within the Shadow World. Teaming up with a group of half-human, half-angel ‘Shadowhunters’, she learns to wield angelic weapons, fight demons and even find love, all with her dorky best friend Simon by her side. A fan-made musical based on the best-selling series by Cassandra Clare, ‘The Mortal Instruments’.
- May 2023
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality. The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
This week it's time to bid farewell to our graduating performers- auditions will be open to finalists only!
- May 2023
Big-shot ad writer Colin wakes up to discover he can only speak in jingles. Desperate to lift the curse, he meets green campaigner Jasmine, who seems to be the antidote. The only problem is, she finds him a revolting sellout. Can he change for her? Mad Men meets Groundhog Day in this rib-tickling new musical.
- May 2023
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality. The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- April 2023
Let the Impronauts entertain you with Quickfire: an hour of improvised comedy, sure to set the house on fire!
Every fortnight, Cambridge's best-loved improvised comedy troupe set the ADC Bar ablaze with a variety of hilarious scenes, games, and songs all completely made up on the spot. Each Quickfire is based on audience suggestions so no two shows are ever the same.
So get ready to ignite your humour and put our improvisers in the hot-seat with your suggestions.
No script. No rehearsals. No problem.
- March 2023
Every term the Marlowe Society runs HATCH which is an amazing opportunity for first time writers, actors and directors to team up to put on a ten-minute play.
The writer submits their work, a director is attached and any actor who wants to participate can! No submissions or auditions, just fun pieces of new writing! They are then performed in a very low pressure friendly bar environment.
- March 2023
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- February 2023
A group of rebels, young and old, unite the outcasts of society, pick up their placards, and demand justice!
In the midst of Roman occupation, three Marys: a Mother, a Leader, and a Runaway, live out their lives. But who are these women, and why did the things they say and do cause such a stir?
Come along to watch this re-telling of the biblical narrative, from her perspective. See the cast sing and fight their way through first century Judea, refusing to accept their designated positions as women on the side-lines of history.
- February 2023
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- February 2023
we choose who we invite / through the front door of our life
Sky, a precocious but quiet teenager, gets caught smoking a zoot and is sentenced to live with their teacher, Miss Court. Between Miss Court's caution to maintain boundaries and Sky's disinterest in interacting at all, neither of them is expecting the other to be anything except a housemate. But a badly-timed Covid-19 infection forces the two to spend a fortnight with no social options except one another.
What emerges from the ashes of this explosion of misfortune could either be a beautiful gift, or a disaster...
An original musical about friendship, trust, identity and weed.
- January 2023
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- January 2023
- November 2022
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
This time round, we want to hear you step out of your comfort zone and sing something you ordinarily wouldn’t choose to sing- in the words of the great Cole Porter… anything goes!
- November 2022
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
This time auditions are open exclusively to freshers. Good luck!
- October 2022
'I feel something in the air / inside my mind / but I can't find / the words quite yet'
In a fictionalised version of Edwardian academic England, Rosa, a fiery student with a drive to make things better, gets sent to Saint Frederick's School for Troublesome Girls. An imminent visit from the School Inspector leaves Professor Oakshot on edge as he struggles to control the newly radical student population. While tensions rise, the appointment of a new English teacher threatens to mark the end of the order they know so well...
A sung-through, student-written musical, FULL MARX is a story of queer love and BME joy, a refreshing new take in the musical theatre scene, presented in front of a live audience for the first time as a rehearsed reading. With an irreverent political sensibility, a multi-ethnic, folk-inspired score, and a scathing critique of 'academic' culture, FULL MARX promises to be a show like no other.
- October 2022
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- October 2022
Following tragedy in a South London community, a group of disgruntled teens spiral down their own paths of radicalisation and begin to hatch a plot inspired by Islamic extremism to strike back at their oppressors.
Struggle is a brand new musical in British hip hop telling the story of extremism and radicalisation in the climate of austerity and gentrification.
- October 2022
- May 2022
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- May 2022
Shake off the shackles of the library and come on down to the ADC bar for some exam term stress relief with your favourite drag performers! Join Dragtime!'s kings, queens and inbetweens as they gossip, giggle, and kiki your Easter blues away... Featuring lip sync, singing, spoken word, live music and maybe even a "welfare massage" if you're lucky, don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to get to know some of Cambridge's freshest new drag talent.
- May 2022
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- March 2022
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- February 2022
The Marlowe HATCH night is a relaxed one-night-only performance of new, fresh student-written theatre! There are short plays, there are extracts from longer works, and all of it coming from an array of different undergraduate writers! Not only is there fresh young blood writing the plays, but fresh young blood performing!
Come on down for a fun night of theatre, as well as potentially experiencing some of the stars of tomorrow! Well, who knows?
- February 2022
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- February 2022
Speakeasy is a fortnightly open mic night held every two weeks at the ADC Bar. Performances include anything and everything from poetry and spoken word, to dramatic monologues and short comedy sketches. Sign-ups for each Speakeasy night will open around two weeks in advance and minority voices are especially welcome. With good company, good drinks, and good art, it is a place for the Cambridge community to gather and have their voices heard.
- January 2022
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
- November 2021
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
This week is our final Bar Night of Michaelmas term, and it's a classic theme: MISCAST!! Come and belt out that song that you've never had the chance to show to anyone outside your shower, or just come and watch for a wonderfully confusing night of MT!
- November 2021
The Marlowe Hatch night is a one-night-only showcase for young student writing, as well as being a nice, relaxed way for people to get involved in acting and prod team shenanigans!
Being performed in the ADC bar, the event will be a showcase of short student plays, as well as extracts from longer student-written pieces.
Show off your writing! Show off your performing! Ultimately, get involved!
- November 2021
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
This week is our second Bar Night of Michaelmas term, and it's time for the FRESHERS! Get on down to the ADC Bar for a night of fabulous performances from the freshest talent in Cambridge Theatre.
- October 2021
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
This week is our first Bar Night post covid, and it's an OPEN THEME!
- October 2021
- May 2020
The final Marlowe HATCH of the year is returning to the ADC Bar - get ready for a night of the most exciting new writing on the scene!
Applications for Writers, Directors and Actors open soon...
- March 2020
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
For the last one of the term, CUMTS are working in collaboration with Bread to bring you a Bar Night with entirely BME performers who will be singing all of their favourite songs from musical theatre. It going to be an amazing night so please don't miss out! Buy your tickets now!
- February 2020
How long have you been nurturing that Kate Bush impression? How many
times have you tried to find a platform for your performance of What's
New Pussycat? Do you think you could give Amy Winehouse a run for her
money? Well, all your questions will be answered in one all-singing,
all-dancing night of tribute acts, impressions and homages.
- February 2020
Three times a term, we host a night where people can come along and sing a musical theatre song for a smaller audience in a less intimidating venue (the ADC bar). The atmosphere is always friendly and uplifting, and the performances are always of a top quality.
The most wonderful thing about these shows is that the more intimate setting allows for those less confident performers to feel more comfortable in their singing and eventually move onto principal roles in bigger shows. You never know, any Bar Night participant might just go on to be the next big star of the stage! Not only that, but also the range of performers means that there is always a range of songs and dynamics to fit every audience member's needs. Whether you're into comedy or you're a hopeless romantic, there'll be something for you!
This week is our first Bar Night of Lent term, and it's an absolutely classic theme: duets. The performers will be pairing up this week to bring a series of musical theatre songs to life. Expect romance, harmony, laughter and - most importantly - a wonderful wonderful night.
