The Independent Theatre

Great to have a piece of history still in use

Step back into history when you come to this grand old theatre in North Sydney!!Old fashioned building, old fashioned service, beautifully maintained, old but well maintained and spotless toilet facilities.Beautiful old theatre space. High roof great acoustics although it seems that sometimes microphones are needed (and they suffer from some interference when the food fair is on over the road on Sundays!!!), very comfortable red velour seats in well designed tiers. Limited space for wheelchairs and this place was just not designed for wheelchairs. ..you have to do it the hard way.A great venue for performers or audience.We saw Little Women starring Jessica Kelly who was superb!! Great singer, dancer, actor, music teacher, musician!!Oh, and parking is excellent at night on weekends - you can park right opposite if you grt there early! Easy free parking - not like every other theatre in Sydney!!

Hadn't noticed this place before. Great little theatre that seems to have mainly have classical / recital performances. I was lucky enough to see Avenue Q. Hope they have more varied shows like this.

Great place -- glad to see shows are still going on here!

This theatre reminds me of a beautiful and stately old lady. As you walk into this Art Deco style building, originally used as a cable tram cable winding station, you are enveloped by history. It is intimate and cosy and not at all stuffy. The theatre seats 303, including the balcony. We have been a number of times, for, amongst others, The Idea Of North, Jenny Ericsson's The Marais Project and an excellent talk on Domestic Violence.Can't wait for the next time!

I have been both an audience member and a performer at the Independent. As a performer in an a capella group the natural sound feedback is great. You can hear yourself very well.As an audience member the sound is bright and crisp.The Independent is an old theatre of medium size. All seats give a great view. I hope to be there again one day.

Having helped organise an event at the independent theater I can recommend it. It's a beautiful theater and the theater manager and the owners (wenona school) are easy to work with. The theater seats about 300 people and the addition of a conference room is handy. I've taken off one star as there's a high likelihood of it being haunted.

Great venue. Kinda small compared to other theatre but it perfectly does its job

Very poor. Whilst the theatre itself is great, one of the workers there lost a bundle of notes i brought in which were very important for my HSC. When I asked them to help find the notes which I saw them move i was repeatedly told to f**k off" and that "she didn't care" and she was "2 hrs overtime already so tell someone who cares" definitely the most rude person I have ever met. They really reflected poorly on the whole establishment."