Riverside Theatres Parramatta

Opened in 1988 as a Bicentennial project, Riverside sits on the Parramatta River with three stages under one roof: the 761-seat proscenium Riverside, the flexible 213-seat Lennox, and the 88-seat Raffertys black box. Around 750 performances annually draw 180,000 patrons — Shakespeare to contemporary dance — making it the working cultural infrastructure of a city that Sydney long treated as peripheral.