Seymour Centre

Seymour Centre — University of Sydney’s performing arts venue

The Seymour Centre sits on the corner of City Road and Cleveland Street, Camperdown — at the eastern edge of the University of Sydney campus, twenty minutes’ walk from Central Station and ten from the Newtown precinct. The Centre opened in 1975 and has operated continuously since as both a working performance venue and a teaching facility for the University’s theatre and performance studies programmes. The Centre is the regular Sydney smaller-format home of Bell Shakespeare‘s education-adjacent productions and the Sydney Festival’s smaller-scale theatre programming.

The rooms

• York Theatre — 540 seats, the principal mainstage. Used for Bell Shakespeare’s smaller-format productions, the Sydney Festival’s theatre programming, and the Centre’s own commissioning programme.
• Everest Theatre — 320 seats, configurable thrust stage.
• Reginald Theatre — 220 seats, black-box format.
• Sound Lounge — small jazz and chamber-music room.

Getting there

Walk from Newtown (10 min via King Street and City Road), Redfern (10 min via Abercrombie Street), or Central (20 min via Broadway). Pair the production with the Newtown dining precinct or the Glebe restaurant strip — both within easy walking distance of the Centre.