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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]
Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) is a venue and organisation for live music in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The organisation programs and presents more than 500 concerts and events a year across diverse range of musical genres including classical and chamber music , contemporary, pop, folk, rock, electronica, indie, jazz, cabaret and world music.
The Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) leased the theatre from 1976 to 1985 when the lease was taken over by various entrepreneurs who formed AT Management in 1997. The upstairs studio theatre ("Ath 2"), created from the former art gallery by the MTC, has been used as a theatre space and the venue for The Last Laugh Comedy Club after it moved from ...
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 State Theatre is typically used as a venue for ballet, opera and musical theatre. The first performances in the State Theatre were Fiddler on the Roof by Opera Australia in May 1984, [ 4 ] and the John Copley production of Verdi's Don Carlos in by the Victoria State Opera in August.
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 ...