History
When the CUADC was formed in 1855, its performances took place in rented rooms in the Hoop Hotel on Jesus Lane. By 1882, the club members had raised sufficient funds to buy the freehold. This building was subsequently developed into the ADC Theatre over an extended period of time. In 1933, there was a disastrous fire, which gutted the building. The theatre was quickly rebuilt to a design by Harold Tomlinson and W.P. Dyson, reopening in 1935. The building was not changed again substantially until the redevelopment programme that started in 2002.
The theatre was run by the CUADC until the club ran into financial difficulties in 1974 when the University of Cambridge began to lease the premises from the CUADC and run the theatre, an arrangement that continues to this day.
Many famous actors acted in the theatre at the start of their careers, including Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, and Hattie Morahan and Iain Moggach.
In 2011 the ADC Theatre took over the management of the Corpus Playroom, the theatre space of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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