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==Campus==
[[File:RADA Chenies St.JPG|thumb|right|The RADA building on [[Chenies Street]], London]]
RADA is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London. The main RADA building where classes and rehearsals take place is on [[Gower Street (London)|Gower Street]] (with a second entrance on [[Malet Street]]), with a second premise nearby in [[Chenies Street]] where [[RADA Studios]] is located. The [[Goodge Street tube station|Goodge Street]] and [[Euston Square tube station|Euston Square]] underground stations are both within walking distance.<ref name=visiting/>

The Gower and Malet Street building was redeveloped in the late 1990s to designs by [[Bryan Avery]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/06/bryan-avery-obituary |title=Bryan Avery obituary |date=6 July 2017 |website=The Guardian |access-date=19 January 2018 |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404171439/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/06/bryan-avery-obituary |url-status=live }}</ref> and incorporated the new theatres and linking the entrances on both streets.

===Theatres===
RADA has five theatres and a cinema. In the Malet Street building, the [[Jerwood Foundation#History|Jerwood Vanburgh Theatre]] is the largest performance space with a capacity of 194; the George Bernard Shaw Theatre is a [[black box theatre]] with a capacity of up to 70; and the Gielgud Theatre is an intimate studio theatre with a capacity of up to 50.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/about-us/venue-hire/ |title=Venue hire — RADA |website=www.rada.ac.uk |access-date=2 September 2023 |archive-date=11 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811183419/https://www.rada.ac.uk/about-us/venue-hire/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In January 2012, RADA acquired the lease to the adjacent Drill Hall venue in Chenies Street and renamed it [[RADA Studios]]. The Drill Hall is a Grade II listed building with a long performing arts history, and was where Nijinsky rehearsed with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1911.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.russianballethistory.com/ |title=History of Ballets Russes |access-date=6 June 2016 |archive-date=14 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614040109/http://www.russianballethistory.com/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref> This venue has a 200-seat space, the Studio Theatre, and a 50-seat space, the Club Theatre.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/about/venue-hire/theatres |title=RADA: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – Theatres & The Screen @ RADA |last=(admin) |first=Jed Staton |access-date=6 June 2016 |archive-date=15 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315060150/https://www.rada.ac.uk/about/venue-hire/theatres |url-status=live }}</ref>

In April 2016, planning permission was granted for the redevelopment of the Chenies Street premises as part of the [[Richard Attenborough]] Campaign.<ref>{{cite news |title=RADA gets go-ahead for 300-seat theatre and on-site student digs |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/rada-gets-go-ahead-for-300-seat-theatre-and-on-site-student-digs |access-date=24 April 2024 |work=The stage}}</ref>

===Library===
The RADA library contains around 30,000 items. Works include around 10,000 plays; works of or about biography, costume, criticism, film, fine art, poetry, social history, stage design, technical theatre and theatre history; screenplays; and theatre periodicals.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/about/library |title=RADA: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – Library |last=(admin) |first=Jed Staton |access-date=6 June 2016 |archive-date=15 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315190655/https://www.rada.ac.uk/about/library |url-status=live }}</ref> The collection was started in 1904 with donations from actors and writers of the time such as Sir [[Squire Bancroft]], [[William Archer (critic)|William Archer]], Sir [[Arthur Wing Pinero]] and George Bernard Shaw.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Attar |first1=Karen |title=A Directory Of Rare Book And Special Collections In the UK And Republic Of Ireland |date=2016 |publisher=American Library Association |page=220}}</ref>

===Other facilities===
Other facilities at RADA include acting studios, a scenic art workshop with paint frame, costume workrooms and costume store, dance and fight studios, design studios, wood and metal workshops, sound studios, rehearsal studios, and the RADA Foyer Bar, which includes a fully licensed bar, a café and a box office.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/about-us/ |title=About us — RADA |website=www.rada.ac.uk |access-date=2 September 2023 |archive-date=31 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831121018/https://www.rada.ac.uk/about-us/ |url-status=live }}</ref>