Metropolitan Theatre (1946-1948)

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Venue	Metropolitan Theatre (1946-1948)
Address	5 Reiby Place Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
First Date	April 1946
Last Date	December 1948
Notes	Operated as the venue for productions of the Metropolitan Theatre from April 1946 to December 1948.
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Latitude \| Longitude	-33.862334 \| 151.209703
Events	Date Contributor Organisation
	Love for Love, 10 September 1948 Invitation to a Voyage, July 1948 A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Liliom, 6 September 1946 Hotel Universe, 13 July 1946 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Othello, 30 March 1946
	Metropolitan Theatre Love for Love, 10 September 1948 Invitation to a Voyage, July 1948 A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Liliom, 6 September 1946 Hotel Universe, 13 July 1946 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Othello, 30 March 1946 The Playwrights' Advisory Board The First Joanna, 12 March 1948
	May Hollinworth - Director Love for Love, 10 September 1948 A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Liliom, 6 September 1946 Hotel Universe, 13 July 1946 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Othello, 30 March 1946 David Saxby - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Liliom, 6 September 1946 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Robin Lovejoy - Actor, Designer, Set Designer A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Kevin Brennan - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Liliom, 6 September 1946 Hotel Universe, 13 July 1946 Othello, 30 March 1946 Dinah Shearing - Actor, Costume Designer A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Frank Waters - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Betty Lucas - Actor The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Hotel Universe, 13 July 1946 Othello, 30 March 1946 Lola Sweeney - Actor The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Winterset, 25 May 1946 John Bushelle - Actor The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 Hotel Universe, 13 July 1946 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Othello, 30 March 1946 Lynne Murphy - Actor The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Liliom, 6 September 1946 William Shakespeare - Author A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Othello, 30 March 1946 David Cahill - Actor Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 Liliom, 6 September 1946 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Wanda Herbert - Actor The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Catherine Lloyd - Actor Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Beatrice Wenban - Actor The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Knox Godfrey - Actor The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Twelfth Night, 26 October 1946 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Gwen Harrison - Actor Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 Richard Meikle - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 Kenneth Pawley - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Othello, 30 March 1946 Redmond Phillips - Actor Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Alfred Race - Actor Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 Winterset, 25 May 1946 Russell Jarrett - Actor As You Like It, 15 May 1947 The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 Charles McKervey - Designer Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 As You Like It, 15 May 1947 John Meillon - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Warwick Smith - Composer, Musical Arranger A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 James C Steele - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 Marcel Wattel - Actor The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Maxwell Anderson - Author Winterset, 25 May 1946 Lionel Bain - Actor Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Lyndall Barbour - Actor Hotel Universe, 13 July 1946 Philip Barry - Author Hotel Universe, 13 July 1946 Dorothy Blewett - Playwright The First Joanna, 12 March 1948 Wendy Brunton Gibb - Actor Othello, 30 March 1946 William Congreve - Playwright Love for Love, 10 September 1948 Ossie Conroy - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 William Constable - Designer Winterset, 25 May 1946 John Dease - Actor Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Paula Denyer - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Gerry Duggan - Actor Winterset, 25 May 1946 Jean Edward - Actor, Costume Designer Hamlet, 28 November 1947 Mervyn Gaul - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Dorothy Hunter - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 H G Kippax - Actor Winterset, 25 May 1946 Jacqueline Kott - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 James Marsh - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Ian Maxwell - Actor Hamlet, 28 November 1947 James Meagher - Actor Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 Ferenc Molnar - Author Liliom, 6 September 1946 James Musgrave - Actor Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947 Audrey Peek - Actor Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 Ruth Rutter - Actor As You Like It, 15 May 1947 Douglas Stewart - Playwright Ned Kelly, 19 March 1947 Christina Walsh - Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream, 14 May 1948 Oscar Wilde - Playwright Lady Windermere's Fan, 18 September 1947 William Wycherley - Author The Country Wife, 8 January 1947 William Butler Yeats - Author Two One Act Plays: The Words Upon the Window Pane / On Baile's Stand, 17 July 1947
Resources	Article: Amateurs act Sydney's best plays, The Daily Telegraph, 19 October 1946, 13 Photograph: Community Playhouse, The Daily Telegraph, 8 August 1946, 16-17 Review: In Reiby-Place, The Bulletin, 68, 3492, 15 January 1947, 24 Thesis: Richard Hunter, Sydney's Little Theatres 1945 to 1955: with special reference to The Metropolitan Theatre, School of Drama, University of New South Wales, 1981
Venue Identifier	11248
Dataset	AusStage