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The theatre was turned into a lecture hall in 2006 due to space constraints at the university. As it reopens its doors, decades’ worth of memories come flooding in.
For centuries fragments of one of the most important documents about early English theatre have been scattered around the world.
The legendary British theatre director Peter Brook died on Saturday, age 97. His clarifying focus on what really matters in theatre can be felt across the spectrum of contemporary theatre.
Eliza Winstanley, who died of diabetes and exhaustion in Sydney in 1882, is largely forgotten. But as a leading artist on Australia’s earliest stages she deserves a prominent place in our theatrical histories.
Was Jesus Christ the first male lead in the history of modern theatre?
More than 100,000 records of live performance are on a database of our theatre history. They tell of corroborees, the first play staged by white settlers, and long-gone gracious theatres.
Popcorn packets and phone use in the theatre can be very distracting, but it’s nothing compared to what performers had to put up with in the past.
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