COMING SOON

Entertaining Mr. Coppin: An Australian showman in Civil War America will recount an unlikely theatrical tour, conveying the gaslight and greasepaint atmosphere of a vanished world and the peculiar sights and sounds of mid 19th century American life.

In 2019, Theatre Heritage Australia undertook a major digitisation project of The Falk Album. In 2020 we produced a limited edition book to highlight this extraordinary collection.

Theatre Heritage Australia has digitised hundreds of theatre programs, some dating back to the early 1900s.

In 2022, Theatre Heritage Australia will begin a new Oral History program, with the focus on Australian performing arts practitioners.

Viola Tait’s memoirs are important as both a personal history and a social history, providing not just details of a life in the theatre, but about the theatre in Britain, America and Australia during the middle of the twentieth century.

These ten digitised scene books provide a rare account of over 440 theatrical productions staged in Australia between the 1890s and 1930s.

THA maintains a growing collection of audio files, including archival recordings and interviews.

Digitized Scene Books from the JC Williamson collection held by Scenic Studios, Preston.

Digitized album containing over 1600 prints of predominately theatrical sitters taken during the 1890s by H. Walter Barnett’s Falk Studios in Sydney.

Theatrical and musical items including engravings, photographs, newspaper cuttings, and entrance tickets.

THA has digitised a number of important books, pamphlets & programs, now out of copyright

The THA has a digital collection of rare production photographs, many from the JC Williamson era.