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Cambridge Theatres

Theatres and performance venues in Cambridge, including a student-run playhouse founded in 1855 and a former theatre closed in 1935.

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The ADC Theatre on Park Street dates from 1855 and is run almost entirely by students. The Corpus Playroom, run by the ADC, is a small studio theatre that favours new writing. The Festival Theatre on Newmarket Road, which closed in 1935, has a history page.

Corpus Playroom

Theatre location_on City Centre

A small L-shaped studio theatre in Corpus Christi College's St Edward's Passage premises, run by the ADC and favouring new writing.

ADC Theatre City Centre

ADC Theatre

Theatre location_on City Centre

Britain's oldest university playhouse, run almost entirely by students, on Park Street.

Closed 1935 — history page

The Festival Theatre

Theatre location_on Petersfield

A Georgian theatre of 1816 on Newmarket Road that became the experimental Cambridge Festival Theatre of 1926-35.