y separately published work icon Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 4019 17 May 1838 of The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser est. 1803 Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Reporter, single work advertisement (p. 1)
Mrs Levy and Her Performers, single work column

A column on the breach of contract trials brought against Sarah Levey by some of her company of actors after the closure of the Theatre Royal in Sydney, New South Wales. Her lawyer is her step father Jacob Josephson, himself involved in separate libel litigation at the time. The column describes the opening of the Theatre Royal for one of the unemployed actors, Mr Sippe, to 'play, as usual, at the Old Theatre, on the regular nights of performance, for the amusement of [Mrs Levey] and friends'. The first of these performances on 14 May 1838 was not a success with an 'unruly' audience making it improbable that Mrs Levey would 'run the risk of any future repetitions'.

 (p. 2)
Sydney Compositors, single work column (p. 2)
Untitled, single work column

A brief comment on the size of the audience for the first performance of the international play Virginius, or, The Liberation of Rome in Sydney, New South Wales.

 (p. 2)
The Theatre, single work column (p. 2)
Untitled, single work column
A brief comment announcing 'a petition ... from the editors and proprietors of the Sydney Press ... praying that the doors of the Council may be thrown open for the admission of the public'.
 (p. 2)
Pickwick Abroad, single work column (p. 2)
Royal Victoria Theatre : The Stranger, &c., single work advertisement

Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 17 May 1838 to include the 'favorite Play, in Five Acts, entitled The Stranger' and the 'Burlette in One Act, by Thomas Hatnes Bayly, Esq., entitled One Hour'.

 (p. 3)
Royal Victoria Theatre : Virginius &c., single work advertisement

Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 19 May 1838 to include 'Sheridan Knowle's admired Tragedy, in five Acts, entitled Virginius' and the 'Burlette in one Act called One Hour'.

 (p. 3)
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