There is a buzz, there is a vibe, there is something in the air!

Newtown Theatre at King Street, corner Brays Street, has seized business.

The doors are closed. The billboard is hanging in dismay, the sign over the entrance has one bulb left to give a hint, that there once was an entrance to a theatre.

•  However, the entrance doors are reglazed and sparkly clean.
• One can see inside and there are new colours on the wall.
• There is space blue, there is Red Centre orange, there is signal red. There are cans of paint everywhere.
• People walking in and out. Roofers, carpenters, painters, plumbers and even electricians get entry to the space that avoided light for years.
• Artists walk up the stairs to stare at a white wall never seen before. Contemplating what would look best on it.
• Actors arrive, crisp and clean, to leave covered in paint and with a smile on their face.
• An old man is sitting at the South End Café. Talking to people who come and go and strangely enough return.

Newtown Theatre has seized business.

The local grocery store, one block up, knows that there will be a new name.

The Southend Café knows that there is a new vibe.

The Botany View Hotel bar staff knows that there is a buzz, created by a man who looks like a teacher, but is involved with the empty space across the road.

The neighbours around know that there is something in the air and are sitting at their windows, waiting for the lights to go on. The lights of:

KING STREET THEATRE
Nurturing all Arts to LIVE
Rather than just SURVIVE

King Street Theatre – the Hub of Burlesque, Grand Guignol, Cabaret, Drama, Musical, Pocket Opera, Chamber Music, Comedy, Dance and any form of performing and visual arts. The Home of laughter, tears, surprise and innovative visions. The home of the people who make life worth living. The home for everyone who is willing to enjoy rather than just  go along.

King Street Theatre is a division of EMU Productions (theatre & music) Pty Ltd. The man behind this entity is the old man sitting at the Southend Café, is the man who looks like a teacher to the bar tenders of the Botany View Hotel, is the man who talks to the neighbours like a neighbour and to the local businesses as one of their own.

Markus Weber has fallen in love with the Land Down Under in 1978. That love never died, whilst so many others faded away.

His CV reads like a fairy tale. Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Hamlet, Dr Faust in acclaimed productions, award winning author, festival director and  father of four children.

He now wants to give back what made him the man he is. The bliss of being allowed to live as a creative artist in an environment of respect and support. The joy of being allowed to live a life in dignity and financial security, whilst fooling around on the hills of naivety.

King Street Theatre will reopen by the end of April with Matt Blackwood Hume’s World Premiere Season of “Boo”, followed by Frank Gauntlett’s “Deeming”. Timothy Daly will finally have an Australian Premiere of “Richard III ( or almost)” after acclaimed seasons at the Avignon Festival and in Paris, France.

King Street Theatre will focus on new Australian Performing Arts Works.

Markus Weber is surrounded by profound fixtures such as Lex Marinos, Paul Terracini, Timothy Daly and many more.

EMU Books will publish all new works in its series of New Australian Plays. The newly formed Newtown Chamber Brass Ensemble will induldge at the Sunday morning “Breakfast with a Hint of Music “ and each Production will be complimented by a themed art exhibition. On the Foyer Stage musicians will perform before, at interval and after shows.

Crazy? No, necessary.

What’s on at the “King”?
No worries. Just let’s go there.