William Westwood, also known as Jackey Jackey, was an English-born convict who became a bushranger in Australia.
There were two Australian periodicals called The Port Phillip Gazette.
The MacMahon brothers were entrepreneurs in Australian show business. Chief among them were James MacMahon and Charles MacMahon, who together and separately toured a large number of stage shows. Their younger brothers, Joseph and William, were involved in many of those activities.
Frederick Hart Pollock was an actor and publican, remembered as the lessee-manager of the Theatre Royal, Adelaide, South Australia.
The Lorgnette, subtitled "Theatrical Journal and Programme", was a weekly magazine in Melbourne, Australia, devoted to theatre, opera and the concert stage. The magazine was published Saturdays and sold for 2d at the major entertainment venues where it had exclusive rights, and elsewhere.
The Record was a weekly newspaper published in South Melbourne, Victoria, from 1869 to at least 1954, serving Port Melbourne, Albert Park, Middle Park, and Garden City.
The first theatre on the site at 217-223 Bourke Street, Melbourne was the Victorian Academy of Music, built for Samuel Aarons, which opened with a performance by Ilma de Murska on 6 November 1876. Seating about 1600, it was designed by Reed & Barnes, and located on a deep site, with the theatre at the rear, located above a wide passageway running through the site, called the Victoria Arcade. The arcade featured billiard and refreshment rooms, and access to the theatre was from a grand stair off Bourke Street, as well as stairs running off the arcade.
Eduardo Majeroni was an actor who toured the world with Adelaide Ristori, playing popular Italian dramas in their original language. He and his wife Giulia, a niece of Ristori, left the company in Australia and carved out a career playing the same repertoire in English translations. Giulia was an actress, and their two sons Mario and George had acting careers in America.
The Haymarket Theatre, or Royal Haymarket Theatre was a live theatre built by George Coppin in the Haymarket district of Melbourne, Australia in 1862 and was destroyed by fire in 1871.
Frederick Charles Appleton was an Australian actor, noted as a Shakespearean character actor, a "painstaking studious aspirant for histrionic honours", praised for his "considerable ability and tact". In 1883 he earned an academic degree and became a university lecturer, an unusual conjugation of careers, shared with H. B. Irving.
William Hoskins was a Shakespearean actor from England whose later career was mostly in Australia and New Zealand, reputedly "one of the best actors who has ever trod our stage".
Frederick George Younge was an English comic actor, in Australia for six years.
Louise M. Pomeroy née Ryder was an American actress and writer who was popular in Shakespearean roles in Australia.
George Leitch was an English actor-manager and dramatist who had a substantial career in Australia.
George Benjamin William Lewis commonly referred to as G. B. W. Lewis, or G. B. Lewis, was an English circus performer, later a circus and theatre entrepreneur in Australia. He married in 1864 the actress and playwright Rose Edouin.
The House That Jack Built; or, Harlequin Progress, and the Love's Laughs, Laments and Labors is a 1869 Australian stage play by William Mower Akhurst. It was adapted for Sydney audiences by an unknown author in 1871.
For Love and Life is a 1890 Australian play by Alfred Dampier and Garnet Walch about hypnotism, a topic then very fashionable in London.
Wilful Murder is a 1892 Australian play by Alfred Dampier and Garnet Walch. The play adapted George Meredith's British play Drama of London Life, incorporating elements of the recent Windsor murder by Frederick Bailey Deeming.
The Rebel Chief is a 1849 Australian stage play by Francis Belfield. It was produced at a time when Australian plays were extremely rare.
Jackey Jackey the NSW Bushranger is a 1852 Australian play by James McLachlin about the bushranger William Westwood known as "Jackey Jackey" He wrote it in collaboration with Thomas McCombie, after having successfully adapted McCombie's Arabin; or, The Adventures of a Settler.
