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The Bachelors' Ball at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Sydney 1857

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Mason, Walter G

National Library of Australia

Prince of Wales Theatre

Grand theatre on Castlereagh Street, which was burnt down and rebuilt before again burning down in 1872.

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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Theatre on Castlereagh Street that opened in 1855, and burnt down in 1860 and again in 1872. The Theatre Royal was later built on the same site.