Heritage Listing
The former Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Robert Hill, spoke of the theatre in 1999 saying "Melbourne's Progress Cinema and former Lyric Theatre, and Newcastle's former Victoria Theatre are part of a vanishing aspect of Australia's heritage".
The New South Wales Heritage Office has now Listed the building, declaring the Victoria the oldest theatre building in New South Wales, and as having historical importance on the grounds that it represents and incorporates an age of vaudeville, legitimate theatre, with silent and modern film cinema that no other building in the State can offer - being over 100 years old.
Read more about this topic: Victoria Theatre (Newcastle)
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