This photograph shows the Bland Holt Company outside the Palmerston North Opera House. Discernible characters are the farmer, the policeman, the judge and the old maid.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: since 1905
The Palmeston North Operatic Society are shown here performing 'The Drinking Song' during rehearsals for their production of "The Student Prince", in the Palmerston North Opera House. This photograph ran in the Manawatu Evening Standard, 23 August...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: August 23, 1963
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 17 January, 1959. "A scene from "Ladies Night In a Turkish Bath," to be staged in the Palmerston North Opera House on January 27, 28 and 29."
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-01-17T00:00:00+00:00
"The Precious Years", by Winton Davis and Leslie Verry, was written for the 60th Jubilee of the city of Palmerston North in November 1937. The play was presented at the Opera House and the script is held at the Palmerston North Public Library. The...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1937
The actors in "David the Shepherd Boy" are seen here in costume raising money for patriotic purposes for WW1. According to Manawatu Times, (5 August 1915, Page 8), the show was "brilliant and successful".
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 4, 1915
The cast and crew of Palmerston North Operatic Society's production of Oliver!
Creator: John Cleland
Date: 1971
The children from the cast of Palmerston North Operatic Society's production of Oliver!
Creator: John Cleland
Date: 1971
Cast members from Palmerston North Operatic Society's production of Oliver!
Creator: John Cleland
Date: 1971
The cast of Palmerston North Operatic Society's production of Oliver!
Creator: John Cleland
Date: 1971
This photograph is thought to show the cast Palmerston North Operatic Society's production of The Merry Widow.
Creator: John Cleland
Date: circa 1975
"The Mikado" was produced by the Palmerston North Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society in 1901. From left to right, Zilla Flyger (later Mrs Brooke Taylor), Hester Burr (later Mrs Rogers), Amelia Whalley (nee McMinn). The lead role of Ko-Ko was pl...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Church Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1901
This photograph is believed to be of a Queen Carnival coronation held at the Dannevirke Town hall in December 1940. Queen carnivals were a popular way to raise money for patriotic purposes and to support the war effort. They might incorporate a ta...
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Dannevirke and district
Date: 1940
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 27 October 1960 "Members of the Palmerston North Repertory Society last night produced three one-act plays. The photograph shows some of the members of the cast in the a...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1960-10-27T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 January, 1959. "Three of the stars in the current show "Ladies Night in Turkish Bath" acted as mannequins at Woolworths, Ltd., today when they paraded in stockings ma...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-01-29T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 25 July, 1959. "A school for actors and producers was held in the Teachers' College assembly hall today. In the centre of the photograph Mrs Nora Ratcliff, M. A. (Oxon)...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 29 September 1960 "The Little Theatre Society's production of "The Eagle Has Two Heads" will, apart from being the society's most ambitious production to date, mark its ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960-09-29T00:00:00+00:00
These people are involved in the Premiere Drapery Company - Interhouse One Act Plays. They are Bill Sexton (producer), Shirley Sexton, Ray Blair, ?, Ivan Bennett, ?. The original Premiere Drapery Company building was owned by Watchorn and Co and t...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1948
The Roscius Dramatic Society began in 1906 or 1907 with the play "The Governor". The company was started by Mr and Mrs Chubb. The man on the left is Dan Sexton and the one on the right is Charlie Adams.
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1906 to circa 1907
Students from Auckland Theatre here to give a series of three performances at the Manawatū Art Gallery to support Centrepoint Theatre. They are pictured in Coleman Mall alongside the ANZ Bank. The Odeon Picture Theatre is in the background.
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Collman Mall, Palmerston North
Date: 1982
Performers in the musical ' HMS Pinafore. Palmerston North Intermediate Normal was opened in 1941 in Ferguson Street.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1944
This photograph shows actors in the garb they wore for "the flower market scene" in My Fair Lady.
Creator: The Tribune
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1974
This photograph comes from the archive of Mabel Child, who was the daughter of James and Polly Hocking (nee Hosking, daughter of Charles E Hosking from England). Mabel married into the Child family.
Creator: J E Lewis
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920 to circa 1929
An article in the Feilding Star of July 1892 states that a Palmerston North drama club put on a melodrama by the name of: "An American Slave Drama: Dred or the Great Dismal Swan." See also: “Saga in Sepia” by V. Smith, page 161. George Shailer was...
Creator: George Shailer
Date: circa 1890
The actor is unidentified. This is a publicity shot from "White Horse Inn" taken by Palmerston North photographer John Cleland. The date is an estimate based on the costuming.
Creator: John Cleland
Place: Unknown
Date: 1970s
Students from Auckland Theatre here to give a series of three performances at the Manawatū Art Gallery to support Centrepoint Theatre. They are pictured posing on the fountain that once sat in the Square Gardens, with the Civic Administration Buil...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Date: 1982
This school play was produced by Bryce Mills (Principal) and assistant teachers Lyn Beale and Joce Mills. Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District, p 57.
Creator: Unknown
Place: 169 Fitzherbert East Road, Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1979
Students from Auckland Theatre here to give a series of three performances at the Manawatū Art Gallery to support Centrepoint Theatre. They are pictured posing on the fountain that once sat in the Square Gardens, with the Civic Administration Buil...
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Date: 1982
Palmerston North Intermediate Normal was opened in 1941 in Ferguson Street.
Creator: Elmar Studios, 459 Main Street, Palmerston North
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1944
"The Gondoliers" was performed in Palmerston North from 17-19 July 1901. According to newspaper accounts, the finale night was notable because a "flash photograph" was taken of the audience, a "decided novelty in Palmerston North". The review from...
Creator: Mr E Pegler [?]
Date: July 1901
These gentlemen are actors in the Premiere Drapery Company - Interhouse One Act Plays. They are Ray Blair and Ivan Bennett. The original Premiere Drapery Company building was owned by Watchorn and Co and then W F Durward until it was reorganised i...
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1948