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Welcome

This wiki is a growing history of New Theatre Sydney.

If you would like to contribute, write to admin at this domain: newtheatrehistory.org.au

For New Theatre's official website, go to the following links:

• New Theatre, Sydney (Current productions, bookings and other information.)
• New Theatre, Past Productions

Brief History

• A Brief History of New Theatre
• Persons of Interest

Detailed History

• Past Productions cast and crew
• From Club to Theatre
  • Introduction
  • The Worker Players
  • Some WAC Radicals
  • 36 Pitt Street
  • The Club's Activities
  • Russian Propaganda
• The 1930s - Plays with a Purpose
  • Social Problems
  • War and its Consequences
  • The Threat of Fascism
  • Workers and Unemployment
  • Persecution and Injustice
  • Censorship
• The 1940s
  • Premises
• The 1940s - Plays with a Purpose
  • War
  • Censorship
  • Racism and Intolerance
  • Postwar Crises
  • Workers and Industrial Action
  • Feminism
  • The Environment
• The 1950s
  • Premises
• The 1950s - Plays with a Purpose
  • War and Peace
  • Injustice and Racism
  • Cultural Imperialism
  • Politics
  • Working Conditions
• The 1960s
  • Premises
• The 1960s - Plays with a Purpose
  • War and Peace
  • Racism and Intolerance
  • Imperialism
  • Working Conditions
  • Censorship
  • Politics
  • Everyday Issues
• The 1970s
  • Premises
• The 1970s - Plays with a Purpose
  • War and Peace
  • Imperialism and Racism
  • Censorship
  • Environment
  • Politics
  • Women
• The 1980s
  • People and Projects
• The 1980s - Plays with a Purpose
  • War and Peace
  • Politics
  • Big Business
  • The Environment
  • The Workers
  • Imperialism and Oppression
  • The Media
  • Women
• The 1990s
  • People and Projects
• The 1990s - Plays with a Purpose
  • War and Peace
  • Imperialism
  • Politics
  • Workers
  • Women
  • The Media
• The 2000s
  • People and Projects
• The 2000s - Plays with a Purpose
  • War and Peace
  • Racism and Intolerance
  • Politics
  • Big Business
  • Women

• Agit-prop and Street Theatre
• Australian Drama
• Mardi Gras
• Children's Theatre
• Workshops, Readings and Special Events
• Shakespeare and the Classics
• ASIO Agents and Moles
• Imperial Honours - from Radical to Respectable
• Administration
• Committees

Links to other New Theatre information

• The Illustrious Life of Sydney's New Theatre, Green Left, 1994
• AusStage has entries for New Theatre venues and events at: New Theatre organisation, productions 1933 - 2016
• Radical Theatre Mobility: Unity Theatre, UK and the New Theatre, Australia (Cathy Brigden and Lisa Milner): Media:Radical_Theatre_Mobility.pdf
• No Handmaidens Here: women, volunteering and gender dynamics in the Sydney New Theatre (Lisa Milner and Cathy Brigden): Media:No_Handmaidens_Here_women_volunteering_and_gender_dynamics_in_the_Sydney_New_Theatre.pdf
• Political Theatre and the state Melbourne and Sydney 1936-1963 (Phillip Deery and Lisa Milner): Media:Political_theatre_and_the_state_Melbourne_and_Sydney_1936-1963.pdf
• New Theatre and the State: the Ban on Till the Day I Die, 1936-41 (Robert Darby) in Labour History", Number 80, May 2001. Media:Ban_on_Till_the_Day_I_Die_Part1.pdf Media:Ban_on_Till_the_Day_I_Die_Part2.pdf