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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
484 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 25
The revival of "Macbeth" at the Theatre Royal, by Messrs Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove, on Saturday night last, attracted an audience which crowded every part of the house, and long before the great tragedy concluded there…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During the performance of a farce at Taunton by Miss Maggie Morton's Comedie Anglaise Company, on June 3, the curtain of one of the wings on the stage took fire. The greatest alarm prevailed amongst the audience, who at once…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By a very large majority the Church of England Synod carried, on Friday, the resolution proposed by the Chancellor expressing approval of the plan for concerted action in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Entering the exhibition upon such a thin day as yesterday's rain was responsible for, the too meagre space is at once observed. There is not sufficient wall-room. The pictures are crowded, too…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The style in which the greatest of those dramas, wherein the daring and all-embracing genius of Shakespeare has successfully invaded the realms of the supernatural, was presented at the Royal last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday evening last the Balmain Rowing Club held their third annual ball at Professor West's rooms, Castlereagn-street, about 300 being present. It proved an unqualified…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A day of sunshine at high noon makes as glorious a revelation in the vestibale of the Town Hall just now as upon any breadth of sky or land or water. Light seems to break through colour, as a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We have seen at Brin[?]mead and Co's., corner of Bond-street, two capital coloured crayon drawings, by Miss G. A. Johnson, a young lady, 16 years of age, daughter of Mr. Johnson, of Nicholson-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir.—I lately visited the Art Gallery in the Domain, now containing several of the most famous pictures modern artists in England have produced. The wooden building, I am credibly informed, is in a state of decay, from white ant…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Fun on the Bristol" is still a very successful attraction at the Gaiety Theatre. On Saturday the building was crowded in every part, ana the fun as usual was fust and furious Mr. Sheridan's Widow O'Brion, which is a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Mocbeth" was again performed at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night to a full house, and the principals were recalled at the close of soveral scenes, while several of the witches' choruses were encored. Shakespeare is said to spell…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the Protestant Hall on Saturday night, an immense audience witnessed Cottier's People's Concerts, the people being packed into the building like herrings in a barrel. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →As large an audience as the size of the room could conveniently accommodate, was present last night at the Promenade Concert, given under the direction of Mr Chas. Haenerbein, at the Art…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For some time past the fair sex of the southern city have been on lip[?]oe of excitement of the Bachelor's ball. In a town like Goulbarn, where everyone knows one another, the suggestions as to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Fun on the Bristol," after a splendid career of success, has now ceased at this plane of entertainment. This evening Mr. H. Stanley's Juvenile Opera Company will appear in "The Grand Duchess."…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE gentlemen who constitute the governing body of what promises to'afford the greatest patronage which true Art has ever, had in this colony, have to be congratulated upon the success of their latest and best…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Pirates of Penzance," the second of the "P" series of work, composed by Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan, will to-night be revived at the Theatre Royal, Messrs. Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove have made the best possible…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The performances at the Gaiety Theatre are quite kaleidoscopic in their character. Not long since high-class drama was performed there, then low comedy, and dance and song entertainments were given, and now a season of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The crowded state of the Theatre Royal on Saturday night was sufficient to assure the management that the public welcomed the inauguration of a season of comic opera, and the reception accorded to the performers throughout the…
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