This collection contains a small selection of archives relating to theatres in the City of Sydney area.
Many early theatres we used for a variety of performances, including opera and, later, cinema. See also Cinema.
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Engraving - The New Theatre to be erected, Pitt and Market Streets Sydney, c1883
View of Emden Gun Monument, Hyde Park South Sydney, circa 1937-1938
CityMark building on the corner of Thomas Street and Hay Street Haymarket, 2000
Tivoli Theatre, Hay Street Haymarket, 1963
Tivoli Theatre, Castlereagh and Campbell Streets Haymarket, 1963
Hotel Sydney, corner of Pitt and Hay Streets Haymarket, 1963
Street view of The Enmore Theatre, Enmore Road Newtown, 2008
St. James Theatre, Elizabeth Street Sydney, 1964
Embassy Theatre, Castlereagh Street Sydney, 1960
Prince Edward Theatre, Castlereagh Street Sydney, 1960
Hyde Park South reconstruction, looking south, corner Liverpool and College Streets Sydney, 1934
Minerva Theatre, 26-30 Orwell Street Potts Point, 1940
Paris Theatre, Liverpool Street Sydney, 1939
Looking south east along Enmore Road Enmore, circa 1940
The Criterion Theatre, corner of Park and Pitt Streets Sydney, 1935
Odeon Theatre, south east corner of Oxford Street and South Dowling Street Darlinghurst, 1956
Paris Theatre, corner of Liverpool Street & Wentworth Avenue, 1965
Tram in George Street, Haymarket, 1957
Traffic in George Street, Haymarket,1958
Traffic and tram on South Dowling Street Waterloo, 1955
Trams at Royal Randwick Racecourse
Prince Edward Theatre demolition, Elizabeth Street Sydney, 1966
File - Department of Public Health reporting on fleas in theatres, 1900
Engraving - Destruction of the Victoria Theatre Sydney, 1880
Lithograph - Burning of the Prince of Wales Theatre Sydney, 1872
Letter - Request for permission to lead a camel to Theatre Royal, 1894
Letter - Request for the use of an elephant at Lyceum Theatre Pitt Street Sydney, 1894
Letter - Request for use of the Exhibition Building grounds for Wild West Show, 1889
Petition - Complaint about erection of temporary structures for amusement, 1886
Letter - Request to secure old Victoria Theatre with hoarding before demolition, 1882
Memorandum - City Engineer reports on fire, Castlereagh Street Sydney, 1860
Letter - Complaint about dangerous lack of exits at Gaiety Theatre, 1882
Letter - Request from Charles Fenton, actor, for patronage at Victoria Theatre, 1848
Building Survey Card - Theatre and shops - Lyric Theatre, 745-751 George Street Sydney, 1948
Petition - Request and counter petition about opening a second city theatre, Sydney, 1844
File - Lease St Francis' Church site and proposed Belmore Theatre, 1912-1914
File - Offer to lease a portion of the Queen Victoria Market building for a theatre, 1911-1912
File - Proposed alterations to Lyceum Theatre, 1907
File - Inspection of theatres and public halls in Sydney, 1905
Letter - Danger to public in gallery, Her Majesty's Theatre, 1904
File - Progress report on theatres, 1905
File - Erect verandah and awning at Tivoli Theatre, 1901
File - Proposition to establish Sydney Civic Theatre, Sydney, 1949-1950
File - Civic theatre, proposed library building, Kent Street Sydney, 1944
Plan - Kings Cross Theatre, Darlinghurst Road, 1928
Plan - Empress Theatre, 529 George Street Sydney, 1938
Plan - Alhambra Theatre, 724-728 George Street Sydney, 1916
Plan - Paramount Theatre - 525 George Street Sydney, 1965
Plan - Theatre Restaurant, Bayswater Road, 1912
Plan - Alterations to the Capitol Theatre, Campbell Street Sydney, 1935
Plan - Fullers New Theatre, Castlereagh Street Sydney, 1918
Plan - Paris Theatre, 205 Liverpool Street Sydney, 1978
Plan - Minerva Theatre, 28 Orwell Street and Orwell Lane, 1938
Plan - New Globe Theatre, 460 George Street Sydney, 1914
Plan - Adelphi Theatre, 1915
Plan - Palace Theatre, 261a Pitt Street Sydney, 1948
Plan - Erect theatre, 62 Macleay Street, 1935
Plan - Alterations to Tivoli Theatre, 81 Castlereagh Street Sydney, 1930
Plan - Prince Edward Theatre, Castlereagh Street Sydney, 1930
Plan - New building, Australia's National Canvas Theatre, Neild Avenue and Lawson Street Paddington, 1948
Plan - Proposed theatre, 166 Glebe Point Road Glebe, 1937
Plans of Sydney (Fire Underwriters), 1917-1939: Blocks 178, 180
Capitol Theatre
Pact Youth Theatre 107 Railway Parade Erskineville
