Digital Collection - Theatre Heritage Australia

Special Projects

Theatre Heritage Australia regularly undertakes a range of Special Projects, from publishing books and original research, to digitising important theatrical records. Keep up to date with the latest projects by clicking on the links below.

Entertaining Mr Coppin

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.

The Falk Studios

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.

Australian Theatre Programs

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

Oral History program

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

I Have a Song to Sing: the memoirs of Viola Tait

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.