Phillip Street Theatre (succeeded by the Phillip Theatre) was a popular and influential Australian theatre and theatrical company, located in Phillip...
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St James' Hall, Sydney (category Former theatres in Sydney)
building which stood at 171 Phillip Street, Sydney, near King Street. It figured prominently in the history of small theatre in Australia. Owned by, and...
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A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down (category Theatre of Australia)
"quickly became a common Australian saying". The play premiered at Phillip Street Theatre and ran for more than 250 performances. The cast included John Ewart...
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Judi Farr (section Theatre work)
amateur Sydney theatre group, and acted in Phillip Street Theatre satirical revues. At age 19, she had her lucky break at Genesian Theatre in The Skin of...
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revue that opened at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre on 18 September 1965. It was the longest running show at the theatre in 1966 and was performed over...
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John McKellar (writer) (category Australian musical theatre lyricists)
musical theatre. His most critically acclaimed and popularly attended work was A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down which premiered at Sydney's Phillip Street...
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Jacqueline Ruth Weaver AO (born 25 May 1947) is an Australian theatre, film, and television actress. Weaver emerged in the 1970s Australian New Wave through...
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Nicole Kidman (category Theatre World Award winners)
teenage years, she attended the Phillip Street Theatre, alongside fellow actress Naomi Watts, and the Australian Theatre for Young People, where she took...
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Phillip Street Terraces are heritage-listed terrace houses and now mixed commercial buildings, offices and restaurant located at 39-47 Phillip Street...
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satirical revue—most notably the popular revues staged at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre in the 1950s and 1960s — but it was also strongly influenced by...
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Phillip Street Theatre, which became Australia's leading venue for revue and satirical comedy over the next decade. His first appearance at Phillip Street...
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Helen Morse (section Theatre)
Theatre Company, Marian Street Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Hunter Valley Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Harvest Theatre Company (South Australia)...
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Alastair Duncan (actor, born 1926) (section Theatre)
first committee was formed in 1963 He became the director of the Marian Street Theatre later in his career. He starred in the Australian Broadcasting Commission...
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Reg Gorman (section Theatre)
McPhail as Harry Patterson. Gorman was also active in radio dramas and theatre and was one of the last active vaudeville performers in Australia.[full...
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satirical revue—most notably the popular revues staged at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre in the 1950s and 1960s—but it was also strongly influenced by the...
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Alan Hopgood (section Theatre)
football and was produced in 1963 by the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Russell Street Theatre in Melbourne with scripts by Brad Hopgood. The...
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Lynn Rainbow (section Theatre)
and radio for over three decades. Rainbow began working in theatre with Independent Theatre, before taking television roles from the early 1970s onwards...
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Geoff Cartwright (section Theatre)
was also the artistic director of the Rough Hewn Theatre Troupe, which called the Star of the Sea Theatre, Manly as its home. Geoff directed numerous Rough...
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Players who played at St James' Hall (later called "Mercury Theatre" then "Phillip Street Theatre") and took further elocution lessons from Rosalind Kennerdale...
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Tom Oliver (section Theatre)
visits Fareham, Hampshire to see his old friends. Oliver became a busy theatre and television actor in Australia. He had many guest starring roles on...
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radio serial. He was involved with the Metropolitan Theatre, Mercury Theatre and Phillip Street Theatre, where he both wrote for and acted in their famous...
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comedy revue A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down opened at the Phillip Street Theatre, Sydney, Australia. The NBC television network unveiled two new...
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Phillip Scott (born 16 August 1952 in Sydney) is an Australian actor, singer, pianist, writer and comedian. He has appeared on film as well as in sketch...
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Ron Shand (section Circus, vaudeville and theatre)
most of the 1920s with his first wife Laurel Streeter and dancer Eddie Clifford. Shand started in theatre in 1931 and had numerous character roles throughout...
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Gerard Maguire (section Theatre)
Kate Sheil in David Williamson's A Handful of Friends at the Russell Street Theatre in Melbourne. Maguire went on to supporting roles in the television...
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Arna-Maria Winchester (section Theatre)
include Come Live With Me (Phillip Theatre, 1971), The Hell Of It and Baby Baby (Stables Theatre, 1982) and La Musica (Lookout Theatre, 1996) Winchester was...
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Bud Tingwell (category Australian male musical theatre actors)
Bill, the first of the famous satirical revues staged at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre. The Australian film and radio industry slumped with the advent...
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for productions at Australia's Wonderland, Phillip Street Theatre, Glen Street Theatre and Sydney Theatre Restaurants Ltd and from 1985 to 1988 he was...
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Kerry McGuire (section Theatre)
Person Singular (a gender swapped The Odd Couple) at Sydney's Northside Theatre She also starred in Don's Party which toured Australia in 1973, Bedroom...
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