Fire-ravaged La Mama theatre ready to rebuild after raising $3.1m by Jane Howard

After a catastrophic fire gutted the building, Melbourne's theatre community banded together to resurrect one of its most prized spaces When Betty Burstall, a young Melbourne teacher, put her name on the lease of an old underwear factory in Faraday Street, Carlton, she was thinking of New York City. It was 1967. Burstall had recently visited the States, and been fired up by the creative energy of the tiny theatres tu…

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