This column describes theatrical life in Sydney, New South Wales, in January 1838. Joseph Wyatt is about to open 'the new Theatre on Monday, the 19th February.' Wyatt's Victoria Theatre did not open until March 1838. The column also comments on John Lazar's Theatre Royal season with damning comments on the performance of Fire and Water, or, A Critical Hour : An Operetta. Overuse of the prompter by one of the performers in Fire and Water reminds the author (William Kerr?) of early colonial actresses Eliza Winstanley and Mrs Larra.
This short piece on the death of the actress Miss Douglass is possibly written by the Sydney Gazette's theatre critic William Kerr.
Advertisement for: Performance on 13 January 1838 of: 'the Burlesque Nautical Burletta, called Billy Taylor, or, The Gay Young Fellow', [John Baldwin Buckstone,1829] and 'the grand Eastern Romantic Spectacle, in three Acts, called Aladdin, or, The Wonderful Lamp ', [1810]
