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Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre company in Australia. [ 1 ] The company's Southbank Theatre houses the 500-seat Sumner and the 150-seat Lawler, and the company also performs in the Arts Centre Melbourne 's Fairfax Studio and ...
Southbank Theatre is a performing arts venue located in the Southbank region of Melbourne, Victoria.It is the principal home of the Melbourne Theatre Company. [1] The theatre was designed by ARM Architecture (Ashton Raggatt McDougall), and opened in January 2009 with a production of Poor Boy starring Guy Pearce. [2]
Part of the Theatres Building of the Arts Centre Melbourne [21] The Sumner, Southbank Theatre: 140 Southbank Boulevard: 2009: 550: theatre: Home of the Melbourne Theatre Company [22] Tower Theatre, Coopers Malthouse: 113 Sturt Street: 2005: 99: theatre: Converted from a brewery built in 1892 [10] Plenary Hall, Melbourne Convention and ...
It was originally produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Arts Centre Melbourne Playhouse, from 18 July to 26 August 2023. The cast included Anne Edmonds , Frankie J. Holden , Evelyn Krape , Vidya Makan, Maria Mercedes , Eddie Muliaumaseali’i, John O’May , Christina O’Neill, Jackie Rees and Slone Sudiro.
John Hackman Sumner, CBE, AO (27 May 1924 – 24 May 2013) was an English-born director and producer and theatre impresario, who was the founder and artistic director of Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia, gathering a group of later internationally famous stars including Ray Lawler, Zoe Caldwell, Barry Humphries and Fred Parslow.
The Westgarth Theatre, formerly the Valhalla Cinema and now operating as the Palace Westgarth, is a heritage-listed movie theatre in the Westgarth neighbourhood of Northcote in Melbourne, Australia. It is the oldest continually-operating, purpose-built cinema in the city.
Simon Phillips (born 1958) is a New Zealand-Australian director of theatre, musicals and opera. [1] [2] He is a former Artistic Director of Melbourne Theatre Company. [3] [4] Phillips graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1980 with a Diploma in Acting. [5]
Melbourne Theatre Company performed there from 1960 to 1994, using it as their main city venue in the 1960s and early 1970s and their secondary venue from the late 1970s to 1994. The building was first constructed as an engineering workshop in the 1880s and was extended as a church in 1920. In 1955, the building was sold to the Council of Adult ...