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Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 New Theatre Royal, Pitt-Street : Opening Performance
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A detailed advertisement announcing the opening of the theatre and the performance on 26 March 1838 of: William Shakespeare's 'celebrated Tragedy, entitled Othello' and the 'popular Farce, called The Middy Ashore' [William Bayle Bernard, 1836].

The theatre was subsequently named the Royal Victoria Theatre.

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Subjects:
  • Othello William Shakespeare , 1604 single work drama
  • The Middy Ashore William Bayle Bernard , 1836 single work musical theatre
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