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Majestic Theatre (later Elizabethan Theatre) Newtown 1929

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Theatre

European theatre in Sydney began before the first Fleet made landfall, with a convict play on board the Scarborough. While theatre was always popular, a commercial theatre scene did not emerge until the 1830s, and theatrical fortunes rose and fell with the city's prosperity.

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Majestic Theatre

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Theatre in Newtown built in 1917 by the Fuller family for melodramas and variety shows. In 1955 it became home of Australia's first national theatre company, the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. The building was destroyed by fire in 1980.