The Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay is a theatre in
Sydney
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, Australia. The theatre is on Hickson Road at
Walsh Bay, west of
The Wharf Theatre, opposite Pier 6/7 on Walsh Bay. It seats up to 896 people. Originally named as the Sydney Theatre, the theatre was renamed in March 2015 in honour of
Roslyn Packer , the widow of
Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. The Packer family company owned a controlling ...
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James Packer
James Douglas Packer (born 8 September 1967) is an Australian billionaire businessman and investor. Packer is the son of Kerry Packer , a media mogul, and his wife, Roslyn Packer . He is the grandson of Sir Frank Packer. He inherited control o ...
and family made a philanthropic gift to the Sydney Theatre Company in advance of the renaming.
The theatre is used by the
Sydney Theatre Company
Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales. The company performs in The Wharf Theatre at Dawes Point in The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as the Roslyn Packer Theatre (formerly Sydney Thea ...
, the
Sydney Dance Company and the
Sydney Writers' Festival.
References
Theatres in Sydney
Theatres completed in 2004
Dawes Point, New South Wales
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