Venue | Savoy Theatre | |
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Address |
25-29 Bligh Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia |
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First Date | 1924 | |
Last Date | January 1973 | |
Notes | Opened as the Adyar Hall (a concert hall) in 1924. Used as a theatre by little and amateur companies, it was altered and re-opened as the Savoy Theatre in 1930.All seating was on a single level. It was used for films and live theatre until 1937. Renamed the New Savoy in 1939 and became the venue f | |
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Latitude | Longitude | -33.865652 | 151.210254 | |
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The Independent Theatre
R. S. Baker's Company
The University of Sydney, Dramatic Society (SUDS)
Sydney Players' Club
New Theatre League (Sydney, NSW)
Orchestra of the Convent of Mercy
Sydney Literary Society
Theresian Club
Workers' Art Club Players
Austral Players, Sydney
'Rainbow Follies' Musical and Dramatic Society
Actors' Federation of Australia
Anna Ravel Dancers
Cheer-up Society
Dajonian Repertory Society
Impressionist Theatre
Koala Comedy Company
Kooroora Dramatic Club
Leonardo Theatre Group
Liberty Players
Racial Hygiene Society of New South Wales
Rowe Street Players, Sydney
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Junior Auxiliary
The Experimental Theatre
The Harmoniques
The Independent Theatre
The Independent Theatre School of Dramatic Art
Tresillian Hospitals
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Doris Fitton - Actor, Director, Producer
May Hollinworth - Director, Producer
John Alden - Actor, Director, Associate
Beryl Bryant - Actor, Director, Playwright
Stanley Hildebrandt - Actor
Sumner Locke Elliott - Actor, Playwright
Alfred Race - Actor
Edward Samuel - Actor
Victor Arnold - Acrobat, Actor, Producer
Joan Chartres - Conductor, Musical Director
Margaret Clift - Ballet Master/Mistress, Choreographer
Jane Conolly - Actor
Clive Coppard - Actor
Marguerite Cullen-Ward - Actor
Richard Dowse - Actor
Kitty Horne - Actor
Edward Howell - Actor, Director
Jean Lawson - Actor
Harry Tighe - Director, Producer
Scott Alexander - Actor, Producer
Edmund Allison - Actor, Director
Alec Alves - Actor
J M Barrie - Playwright
Claude Carter - Actor
Agnes Caspers - Choir Master/Mistress, Musical Director
Norah Cazabon - Actor, Director
Zara Clinton - Actor
Edward Landor - Actor
Jean Mort - Actor
Richard Parry - Actor
James Pratt - Actor
Molly Raynor - Actor
Arthur Reardon - Actor
Desmond Rowan - Actor
Eric Scott - Actor
William Shakespeare - Playwright
John Stacy - Actor
John Warwick - Actor
Jerold Wells - Actor, Producer
John Wyndham - Actor
Sylvia Arnold - Actor
R S Baker - Director, Producer
J C Bancks - Actor, Playwright
Fred Brown - Actor
Garry Byrne - Actor
John Cazabon - Actor, Director, Librettist
Norman W Chincen - Actor
W J Cleary - Adjudicator
John Dease - Actor
Joan Fitzpatrick - Actor
Miles Franklin - Adjudicator
Mary Fulton - Actor
William Gates - Actor
Anne Gordon - Actor
Judith Halse-Rogers - Actor
Rita Humfress - Actor, Director
Gertrude Johns - Actor
Will Lawson - Adjudicator
Pamela Linton - Actor
Kenyon McCarron - Actor
William Vincent McEvoy - Playwright
Freda McGhee - Actor
Jack Needham - Actor, Stage Manager
Clifford Odets - Playwright
Peter Osborn - Actor
Colin Peebles - Actor
Elmer Rice - Playwright
Marie Rosenfeld - Actor
George Bernard Shaw - Playwright
Harry Thomas - Actor, Director
Sutton Vane - Playwright
Harold Abbott - Designer, Set Designer
Monty Arnold - Actor
Hugh Benson - Playwright
O D Bisset - Actor
Jean Brodziak - Actor
Raoul Cardamatis - Designer, Producer
Hugh Carllsen - Actor
Howard Carr - Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator
Northleigh Carter - Actor
W J Caspers - Conductor
Edward Cavill - Actor
John L Clugston - Lighting Designer
Cedric Keith Cohen - Actor
Patricia Cole - Actor
Albert Collins - Actor
Frank Crago - Actor
Howard Craven - Actor
Edward Druitt - Actor
Jean Elwing - Actor
Joseph Evans - Actor
James Fagan - Playwright
Roscoe Fay - Actor
Jack Fegan - Actor
Peter Finch - Actor
Don Finley - Set Designer
James Elroy Flecker - Author, PlaywrightR J Fletcher - Playwright
Ron Folkard - Actor
Harold Fraser - Director
Jack Gale - Actor
David Game - Actor
T Gibson - Lighting Designer
C M E Gifford - Actor
Hugh Gilchrist - Stage Manager, Assistant
Dick Hahn - Actor
Isabel J Handley - Playwright
Peter Harding - Actor
Frank Harvey - Director, Playwright, Producer
Leslie Hay-Simpson - Actor
Pauline Henriques - Actor
Frank Hinder - Set Designer
Sybil Hinder - Actor, Set Designer
John Holland - Actor
Ethel Holmes - Actor, Composer
William Horton - Actor, Set Designer
Henry Howlett - Actor
S I Hsiung - Playwright
Annie Hughes - Actor
William Hume - Actor
Walter Hunt - Actor, Producer
Marion Johns - Actor
George Kaufman - Playwright
Peter Leslie - Actor
Benn Levy - Playwright
Erna Living - Actor
Nigel Lovell - Actor
Estelle Macken - Actor
N K Mason - Stage Manager
Ian Maxwell - Actor, Properties Officer
Nora McAuliffe - Playwright
Kathleen McCathie - Actor
Jack McGann - Actor
Kathleen McGarry - Actor, Circus Style Performer
Jack McLean - Actor
Eugenie McNeil - Actor
David McNicoll - Actor, Playwright
A A Milne - Playwright
Clifton Mossop - Actor
Rosalind Page - Actor
David Ratner - Actor
C Hansby Read - Playwright
William Rees - Actor, Producer
Patricia Rutherford - Actor
Gwen Sherwood - Actor, Director
Rosalind Spence - Actor
Edith Sterling Levis - Costume Designer, Costume Maker, Director, Playwright
Reg Stocker - Actor
Dorothea Tobin - Playwright
John van Druten - Playwright
Wendy Woolfrey - Actor
Bernard Yardley - Actor
Henry Abbott - Set Designer
Suzette Adams - Actor
Ida Alexander - Actor
Stanley Allison - Actor
Philippa Alston - Actor
Jean Anderson - Actor
Frank Andrews - Actor
Ronald Andrews - Actor
Charles Anscombe - Actor
Solomon Ansky - Playwright
Bill Ash - Actor
Guenda Bainton - Set Designer
Tony Balthasar - Actor
Lyndall Barbour - Actor
Mildred Barrington - Actor
Raymond Bawtree - Actor
Frank Beck - Set Designer
Eric Bedford - Playwright
Samuel Nathaniel Behrman - Playwright
Arnold Bennett - Adaptor, Writer
Carl Beresford - Actor
Zoe Besbois - Actor
Wilfred Blacket - Actor
John Bohrsman - Actor
Reg Bolton - Actor
Ambrose Bourke - Actor
Helen Bousfield - Playwright
Geoffrey Bowyer - Actor
Simon Bracegirdle - Actor
Dennis Bradley - Playwright
James Bridie - Playwright
Alfred Brock - Actor
Molly Brown - Actor
Betty Bryant - Actor
Maisie Buchanan - Actor
Volny Bulteau - Vocalist
Mischa Burlakov - Actor, Choreographer
Frank Callanan - Actor
Ann Carlson - Actor
June Carter - Actor
Alberto Casella - Playwright
Albert Cazabon - Actor
Phyllis Chalumeau - Actor
George Coffin - Actor
Dulcie Cohen - Actor
Edward Collyer - Electrician
Marc Connelly - Playwright
Jane Connolly - Actor
Leonard Connolly - Actor
Betty Considine - Actor
George Constandine - Actor
Jean M Cooper - Playwright
Phillida Cooper - Actor
Juan Cortez - Actor
Alan Coutts - Actor
Noel Coward - Playwright
Alan Crawford - Actor
Keith Cribb - Actor
Betty Crisp - Actor
Alma Cull - Actor
Agnes Cullen - Actor
Audrey Cunningham - Actor
Marguerite Dale - Playwright
Florence Dancigem - Actor
Allan Davis - Actor
Beryl Davis - Actor
Basil Dean - Adaptor
Therese Desmond - Director
Agnes Doyle - Actor
Sheila Doyle - Actor
Lord Dunsany - Playwright
Frank Dwyer - Stage Manager
Charles Edgbaston - Playwright
Charles Edgbaston - Playwright
Eric Edmonds - Playwright
Megan Edwards - Actor
Stephanie Edye - Producer
E Elliott - Actor
Dorothy English - Actor, Choreographer
George English - Composer, Musical Director
Sydney Everett - Actor
Tom Ewer - Actor
Erica Fair - Actor
Myrtle Fair - Actor
Richard Fair - Actor
Walter Ferris - Adaptor
Carolyn Forsyth - Actor
Lois Forsythe - Actor
Jack Foster - Actor
Tom Foster - Actor
Carl Francis - Director
Patricia Francis - Actor
Leslie Frederick - Actor
Colin Friend - Actor
Dorothy Fry - Actor
Paul Furniss - Playwright
Mabel Gallichan - Director
Marjorie Garraway - Actor
S Milano Garti - Playwright
Jean Gellatly - Actor
Robert Gemmell - Actor
Siegfried Geyer - Playwright
Robert Gibson - Actor
E Gilburt-Howell - Actor
George Goffin - Actor
Murray Gosper - Actor
Norman Claridge Goss - Director, Playwright
Lindsay Goulding - Actor
Cleo Grant - Actor
Harley Granville-Barker - Translator
Ellen Gray - Actor
Phyllis Gregory - Actor
R A Grieve - Actor
Camille Groecotte - Actor
Nance Gurr - Actor
Thomas Stuart Gurr - Librettist
Richard Hahn - Actor
Shirley Hall - Actor
Ann Hannan - Actor
W Harding-Browne - Actor
C H Harper - Dancer
Marion Harrin - Actor
Moss Hart - Playwright
Hugh Hastings - Playwright
Ian Hay - Playwright
Lucille Hayes - Actor
J W Heming - Playwright
Richard J Hickson - Actor
Betty Higgins - Actor
Andrew Higginson - Actor
Alfred Hill - Composer, Conductor
Donald Hill - Actor
Hazel Hollander - Actor
Joan Hollinshead - Actor
Frederic Holt - Playwright
Alec Hope - Actor
Avery Hopwood - Playwright
William Hough - Actor
Stanley Houghton - Playwright
Sidney Howard - Playwright
Eric Howell - Director
Dorise Humphreys - Actor
Ethel Humphreys - Actor
Rae Hunt - Actor
Angus Hunter - Actor
Bea Hussey-Cooper - Singer
Lorimer Ife - Actor
Raymond Irving - Actor
S R Irving - Actor
Zila James - Actor
Jeannie Jeffrey - Actor
Eileen Johnston - Actor
Margaret Johnstone - Actor
Edna Jones - Actor
Harve Justin - Musical Director
Valentine Katayev - Playwright
Margaret Kennedy - Adaptor, Writer
Agnes Kent - Actor
James King - Actor
Stephen King-Hall - Playwright
Heather Kinnaird - Actor
Jack Kinson - Actor
Mollie Kirwan - Director
Klabund - Playwright
Patricia Klein - Actor
Jean Knight - Actor
Edward Knoblock - Adaptor
Jan Kowsky - Ballet Master/Mistress
Eva Kuraz - Actor
Marie La Varre - Actor
Sylvia Lance Thomson - Actor
John Landon - Actor
Alice Lardi - Actor
Doris Lascelles - Actor
James Laver - Translator
Stephen Leach - Actor
Myra Leard - Actor
Zerlina Levy - Actor
Edward Lewis - Adaptor
Louisa Lightfoot - Choreographer
Peter Lightfoot - Actor
Norman Lindsaye - Musical Arranger
Franchi Lisma - Actor
Peter Lister - Actor
Maisie Littlejohn - Actor
E Elliott Lloyd - Producer
Robert Lockwood - Actor
Hilary Long - Actor
Frederick Lonsdale - Author
Lurline Lovatt - Choreographer
Mac Luker - Playwright
Margaret Lundie - Actor
Sylvia Lunn - Actor
Helen Lupton - Actor
Donald MacCallum - Electrician
Mungo B MacCallum - Actor
Helen Macready - Playwright
Oswald Magill - Actor
Roy Maling - Musical Director
Dorothy Mannix - Actor
John Mant - Actor
Eleanor Martin - Dancer
María Martínez Sierra - Playwright
Gregorio Martinez-Sierra - Playwright
Phoebe Martyn - Actor
Jennifer Maughan - Actor
Rene Maxwell - Actor
Robert Maynard - Actor
Moncrieff McCallum - Actor
Betty McConnell - Actor
Hugh McCrae - Playwright
Mahdi McCrae - Costume Designer
Ruby McEwan - Actor
Andrew McGhie - Actor, Stage Manager
Tim McGill - Actor
W J Stewart McKay - Playwright
Lorna McKean - Actor
Mary McKinven - Actor
Jean McLeod - Actor
Norma McLeod - Actor
Donald McNiven - Actor
Reginald Melville - Actor
Connie Metters - Actor
K Moginie - Actor
Varney Monk - Composer, Lyricist
Kathleen Monypenny - Playwright
Dennis Mooney - Actor
Carrie Moore - Singer
Leonie Moret - Actor
Albert H Moroney - Playwright
James Moss - Actor
Gwenda Moverley - Actor
C K Munro - Playwright
James Munro - Actor
Elsie Murdoch - Actor
Clarence Murphy - Actor
Mrs Venour Nathan - Ballet Master/Mistress
John Needham - Actor
Margaret Nelson - Actor
David Nettheim - Actor
Pat Newman - Stage Manager, Assistant
Wendy Newton - Actor
Wendy Newtown - Actor
Tess Nicholas - Actor
Arundel Nixon - Actor
Harry Nolan - Director
Leonard Norman - Actor
Enid Norton - Actor
Jack O'Lean - Actor
Kath O'Loan - Actor
Tim O'Sullivan - Actor
Madeleine Oakes - Actor
Andre Obey - Playwright
John Pagan - Actor
Wendy Palmer - Actor
Louis N Parker - Playwright
Evelyn Parratt - Ballet Master/Mistress
Kenneth Pawley - Actor
Ramsay Pennicuick - Composer
Mollie Peters - Actor
Barbara Phillips - Actor
Stephen Phillips - Playwright
Bob Pilcher - Actor
Nigel Pilcher - Actor
Arthur Wing Pinero - Playwright
Winifred Pratt - Actor
Peggy Prell - Actor
Ellis Price - Actor
Dorothy Quirk - Actor
John Radford - Actor
Brett Randall - Actor
Jeanie Ranken - Front of House
Samson Raphaelson - Playwright
Ena Reed - Actor
H Reid - Actor
Dick Ridgeway - Actor
Arthur Riley - Actor
Harold Riley - Actor
Bernard Roberts - Actor
Barbara Robson - Dancer
Charles Henry Rolleston - Playwright
Marie Rosenfield - Actor
Nathalie Rosenwax - Chorus Master/Mistress, Entrepreneur
Sheelagh Ross - Actor
Edmond Rostand - Author
Geraldine Rutherford - Actor
Kath Rutherford - Actor
Nedra Ryrie - Actor
Horace J Salier - Actor
Grace Savieri - Actor
Harry Scott - Actor
Robert Scott - Actor
Phyllis Scully - Actor
Meg Service - Actor
Lyndsay Shaw - Actor
Rex Shaw - Creator
Elizabeth Sheldon - Actor
Mina Shelley - Director
Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Playwright
Marguerite Shirlaw - Actor, Playwright
Mary Shirlaw - Actor
Alathea Siddons - Actor
Sil-Vara - Playwright
Chris Sime - Actor
Donald H Simpson - Creator
Ken Simpson - Actor
C Skarrat - Actor
Irwin Smith - Actor
Lorraine Smith - Actor
Sheila Smith - Actor
Earnest Southgate - Actor
Mimi Spaull - Actor
Vera Spaull - Actor
Gordon Spencer - Actor
W Grenville Spencer - Actor
Edward St John - Actor
John Stacey - Performer
Muriel Starr - Actor
Margaret Staunton - Actor
Carlton Stewart - Actor
Marie Stopes - Playwright
Montgomery Stuart - Actor
Ann Stuart Gurr - Actor
Kay Summers - Actor
Aisla Sutherland - Actor
Betty Sutton - Actor
Hope Suttor - Actor
Marie Swift - Actor
Dudley Swindon - Actor
John Millington Synge - Playwright
Irene Thirkell - Actor
Margaret Thirlaway - Actor
Helen Thomson - Actor
C Todd - Actor
Edna Todd - Actor
Harold Tollemache - Actor
Sydney Tomholt - Playwright
Katie Towers - Actor
Walter Trennick - Actor
Frank Trist - Playwright
Margaret Trist - Playwright
Pat Tucker - Actor
Pat Tuohill - Actor
Robert Turner - Actor
Uncle Frank of Station 2GB - Producer
Gilbert Unsworth - Actor
John Vindin - Actor
John Walcott - Actor
Kitty Walker - Actor
Ruth Walker - Actor
Gregory Walker-Taylor - Actor
Elsie Warren - Actor
Naomi Waters - Actor
Winsome Way - Actor
Mary Webb - Writer
Anne Weigal - Actor
Margaret Weigal - Actor
Osmund Wenban - Actor
Edward West - Actor
Ian Whitbread - Actor
Suzanne White - Actor
Dora Wilcox - Playwright
Thornton Wilder - Translator
Frank Wilkinson - Electrician
Bruce Williams - Actor
Clement Q Williams - Singer
Betty Wilson - Actor
Hawdon Wilson - Actor
John Wilson - Actor
Jack Win - Actor
Frank Windeyer - Actor
A C Winn - Director
Elinor Wray - Director
Bertie Wright - Actor
George Wright - Director, Playwright
John Wright - Actor
Eve Wynne - Actor
Edgar Yardley - Actor
Blamire Young - Scenic Artist
Laurie Young - Actor
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Venue Identifier | 2840 | |
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