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Gaiety Theatre 1881

Gaiety Theatre 1881

By

John Lane Mullins

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a1939066 / PXA 420]

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Mullins, John Lane

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.

Entertainment and Spectacle

Gaiety Theatre

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Sydney's Catholic Guild built the Victorian Free Gothic style hall on Castlereagh Street. It was then converted into the Academy of Music in 1879 before it was renovated in 1880 and re-opened as the Gaiety Theatre. It closed in about 1893 before it was re-opened again in 1895. It closed again and was operated as an athletic club until 1912 when it was sold to the Catholic Club, Land, and Building Company for 10,000 pounds and then demolished.