Everyman Cinema, Hampstead

For the Everyman Group, see Everyman Cinemas.

The Everyman, Hampstead is a cinema, formerly a theatre, in Holly Bush Vale, Hampstead, London and is the original site of the Everyman Cinemas group.

The house opened as the Everyman Theatre in 1920, under the management of Norman MacDermott, who aimed to establish a repertory company comparable to celebrated companies in Birmingham and Dublin. He ran it until 1926, presenting classic and modern plays, but financial problems obliged him to resign. The building was taken by other managements and continued as a theatre until 1933.

In 1933 the Everyman became a cinema and apart from closure during part of the Second World War it has remained as such.

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