Parramatta. The Roxy as a cinema, again

The National Trust is campaigning to reopen two of Sydney’s most architecturally spectacular playhouses, the Roxy, in Parramatta, and the Hub, in Newtown, in an effort to revive suburban cinemas. The trust’s advocacy manager, Graham Quint, said the rebirth of the Roxy and the Hub would not only provide a boon for smaller Australian and independent films, which are often shunned by bigger cinemas, but would breath new life into some of Sydney’s unique buildings, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.