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'Dracula', Palace Theatre, Pitt Street Sydney

By
Sam Hood
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a301051 / PXE 789 (v.56), 68]

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Hood, Sam

State Library of New South Wales

Sydney's lost theatres

Theatres operated on more than two dozen sites in Sydney in the period 1796 to the 1930s. Only two of these sites still function as commercial theatres today, indicating a significant loss of the city's cultural memory.

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Public building

Palace Theatre

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Variety theatre, later used as a cinema, in Pitt Street that was built for George Adams in 1896 as part of the Tattersall's Hotel complex. The building had Sydney's first electric power station installed in the basement to provide light for the theatre.