{{Short description|Street in Adelaide, South Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox Australian road | type = street | road_name = Angas Street | state = sa | city = [[Adelaide city centre]] | urban = yes | image = Angas Street Adelaide.jpg | caption = Angas Street, looking east from [[King William Street, Adelaide|King William Street]] in July 2021 | length = 1.4 | length_ref = <ref name="gmaps">{{google maps |url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/-34.9301172,138.6000666/-34.929362,138.615325/@-34.9298302,138.6054051,16.94z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0 |title=Angas Street | access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref> | est = 1837 | direction_a = West | direction_b = East | coordinates_a = {{coord|-34.930127|138.600139|type:landmark_region:AU-SA|display=inline}} | coordinates_b = {{coord|-34.929362|138.615325|type:landmark_region:AU-SA|display=inline}} | pushpin_label_position_a = left | pushpin_label_position_b = right | alternative_location_map = Australia South Australia City of Adelaide <!--or Australia Greater Adelaide--> | end_a = '''[[King William Street, Adelaide|King William Street]]'''<br />{{small|[[Adelaide]]}} | end_b = '''[[East Terrace]]'''<br />{{small|[[Adelaide]]}} | exits = {{plainlist| *[[Victoria Square, Adelaide|Victoria Square]] *[[Pulteney Street]] *[[Frome Street]] *[[Hutt Street]]}} | lga = [[City of Adelaide]] }} '''Angas Street''' is a main street in the [[Adelaide city centre]], [[South Australia]].<ref name=ubd>{{cite book|title=2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition |publisher=[[Universal Publishers (Australia)|UBD]]|year=2003 |isbn=0-7319-1441-4}}</ref><ref name=map>[http://www.soulunderground.com.au/national_files/CBDMAP.pdf Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325140742/http://www.soulunderground.com.au/national_files/CBDMAP.pdf |date=25 March 2017 }} of the [[Adelaide]] CBD, [[North Adelaide]] and the [[Adelaide Parklands]].</ref> The rear of [[St Aloysius College, Adelaide|St Aloysius College]] faces the street, and various law courts are on the street, including the [[Dame Roma Mitchell]] Building. The [[South Australia Police]] headquarters and [[South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service]] Adelaide station are further down the street.
Angas Street runs from the southern end of [[Victoria Square, Adelaide|Victoria Square]] to [[East Terrace]]. It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, and is {{convert|1+1/2|ch|lk=on}} wide.
==History== The street is named after [[George Fife Angas]] in recognition of his chairmanship of the [[South Australian Company]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia Volume 1 |page=9 |year=1925 |publisher=The Adelaide Stock and Station Journal |url=http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/ncb/documents/PASTORAL%20PIONEERS%20OF%20SOUTH%20AUSTRALIA%20VOL.1.pdf |access-date=22 November 2018 |via=[[Australian National University]]}}</ref>
Angas Street was the site of the [[Municipal Tramways Trust]] depot from 1923 until 1986, on the north side not far from Victoria Square. At its largest, the depot had 19 tram tracks entering, all from facing east. There was never a tram route along Angas Street; entry and exit from the depot required shunting on a dead end stub of track in Angas Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1TDRa4IZPRneJOMkWavQCdxc9Lw6CAXJp&ll=-34.92927314220219%2C138.60174020340196&z=19 |title=City Depot access |work=Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT) electric lines |publisher=[[Tramway Museum, St Kilda]] |access-date=21 February 2019}}</ref>
==Notable buildings== * Dame Roma Mitchell Building, Commonwealth Law Courts, no. 1–15<ref>{{cite web |url =https://www.emporis.com/buildings/171618/commonwealth-law-courts-adelaide-australia |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20210121073234/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/171618/commonwealth-law-courts-adelaide-australia |url-status =usurped |archive-date =21 January 2021 |title =Commonwealth Law Courts |website =Emporis }}</ref> *Kodo Apartments, no. 29, designed by [[Woods Bagot]] and at the time slated to be the tallest residential block in the city, at 30 storeys<ref >{{cite web | title=Kodo Apartments | website=Woods Bagot | url=https://www.woodsbagot.com/projects/kodo-apartments/ | access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref> *Royalty Theatre, no. 65, {{as of| May 2022|lc=yes}} owned and managed by the Calisthenic Association of SA<ref>{{cite web | title=Calisthenics - Adelaide | website=royaltytheatre | url=https://www.royaltytheatre.com.au/ | access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref> *Adelaide City Seventh-day Adventist Church, no. 82<ref>{{cite web | title=Welcome | website=Adelaide City Seventh Day Adventist Church | url=http://www.adelaidecityadventist.org.au/ | access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref> *[[South Australia Police]] (SAPOL) headquarters, no. 100<ref>{{cite web | title=100 Angas Street, Adelaide | website=Maras Group | date=18 July 2015 | url=https://www.marasgroup.com.au/our-properties/commercial-offices/100-angas-street-adelaide/ | access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref> *[[Calvary Adelaide Hospital]] * [[SA Water]] building *[[Workers' Educational Association#In Australia, New Zealand and some regions of Canada|WEA building]], no. 223 * Dom Polski Centre, or Polish Club, no. 230<ref>{{cite web| title=Dom Polski Centre | website=[[Adelaide Fringe]] | url=https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/venues/dom-polski-centre | access-date=12 May 2022}}</ref><ref> {{cite web | title=Pioneering producers are taking over Dom Polski for Unsound Adelaide | website=[[CityMag]]| first= Angela |last=Skujins | date=5 May 2022 | url=https://citymag.indaily.com.au/culture/pioneering-producers-are-taking-over-dom-polski-for-unsound-adelaide/ | access-date=12 May 2022}}</ref> *The Life Christian Centre, or Life Church, at no. 245<ref>{{cite web | title=About Life | website=Life Christian Centre | url=https://www.life-church.com.au/about/about-lcc/ | access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref> was founded in 1967 to minister to Italian-speaking Adelaideans following a [[Pentecostal]] movement in the United States called [[Christian Church of North America]]. In 1979, the [[Christian Church in Australia]] (CCA) was established, with links to CCNA. CCA has since grown, with churches being founded around Australia.<ref>{{cite web | title=Our History | website=Life Christian Centre | url=https://www.life-church.com.au/about/our-history/ | access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref> The church bought the building housing the Bakehouse Theatre at no. 255 in 2020.<ref>{{cite web | last1=Lenny | first1=Barry |first2 =Suzie |last2 =Keen | title=BWW Feature: Final curtain call for Adelaide's much-loved Bakehouse Theatre | website=BroadwayWorld.com | date=2 May 2022 | url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/adelaide/article/BWW-Feature-final-curtain-call-for-adelaides-much-loved-Bakehouse-Theatre-at-Bakehouse-Theatre-20220502 | access-date=7 May 2022|others =First published in [[InDaily]]. }}</ref><ref name =keen2021>{{cite web | title=Curtain set to fall on Bakehouse Theatre |first =Suzie |last =Keen | website=InDaily | date=6 July 2021 | url=https://indaily.com.au/inreview/theatre/2021/07/07/curtain-set-to-fall-on-bakehouse-theatre/ | access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref>
===The Arts Theatre=== <!----redirect targets this section ----> The Arts Theatre is at no. 53. It is home to the [[Adelaide Repertory Theatre]], which had the theatre built in 1963.<ref name=tat>{{cite web | title=Adelaide's Premiere venue for award winning amateur theatre | website=The Arts Theatre | url=https://www.artstheatresa.com/ | access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref> The 500-seat theatre was built for £45,000, on land bought 15 years prior by the long-running [[amateur theatre]] company. It has since become a major venue for other amateur companies as well as [[Adelaide Fringe]] and other performances.<ref>{{cite web | title=Arts Theatre a home at last in 1963 for Adelaide Repertory; used by other music/theatre groups, Fringe shows| website=AdelaideAZ | url=https://adelaideaz.com/articles/arts-theatre-now-a-hub-for-city-groups--main-regional-towns-gets-new-theatres | access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref> It hosts around 14 shows per year.<ref name=tat/>
===Bakehouse Theatre === <!----redirect targets this section ----> [[File:Bakehouse Theatre, Angas Street, Adelaide.jpg|thumb|left|Bakehouse Theatre at 255 Angas Street]] The building at no. 255 started life as Lovell's Bakery in the 1890s. It was subsequently used as the bookshop of the Adelaide branch of the [[Communist Party of Australia]], and for a while was home to Farmer’s Radio and Suburban Taxis. In the 1970s, Keith Gallasch {{post-nominals|country =AUS|OAM}} (who went on to found ''[[RealTime]]'' magazine with his partner Virginia Baxter {{post-nominals|country =AUS|OAM}}) and David Allen, then both lecturers at the [[Salisbury College of Advanced Education]], formed a theatre group comprising some of their students, called Troupe. They rented the warehouse-like building, calling it The Red Shed, which spawned a new theatre company, the Red Shed company, which later moved to [[Unley]]. The Troupe collective grew, and performed new Australian works, including some penned by Gallasch.<ref name=Harris>{{cite web | title=Final curtain call for Adelaide's much-loved Bakehouse Theatre | website=[[InDaily]] |first =Samela |last =Harris | date=19 April 2022 | url=https://indaily.com.au/inreview/theatre/2022/04/20/final-curtain-call-for-adelaides-much-loved-bakehouse-theatre/ | access-date=22 April 2022}}</ref><ref name =keen2021/>
In the 1990s Peter Green took over, renting the property at a low rent from the Communist Party,<ref name=smith/> and renovated the old theatre, reopening it as The Bakehouse Theatre in 1997. [[Arts SA]] provided some funding until 2006, when Pamela Munt and her daughter Melanie took over the theatre for their Unseen Theatre Company, which specialises in works by [[Terry Pratchett]]. The theatre was expanded to include a second performance space, and played host to a number of resident theatre companies as well as [[Adelaide Fringe]] shows.<ref name=Harris/> The theatre hosted more than 250 shows, including British comedian [[Ben Elton]].<ref name=smith/>
In early 2022, the theatre was given notice to vacate the building by its new owners, the Life Christian Centre. The theatre closed after its final run of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' on 7 May 2022.<ref name=smith >{{cite web | last=Smith | first=Matthew | title=Adelaide's Bakehouse Theatre to close tonight after 24 years | website=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]|publisher =[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] | date=7 May 2022 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-07/sa-bakehouse-theatre-closes/101043944 | access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref><ref name=Harris/>
==Junction list== {{AUSinttop|noLGA=yes|length_ref=<ref name="gmaps" />}} {{SAint |location_special=[[Adelaide city centre]] |lspan=5 |type= |km=0 |road=[[Victoria Square, Adelaide|Victoria Square]], [[King William Street, Adelaide|King William Street]] |notes=Continues as [[Gouger Street]] }} {{SAint |type= |km=.55 |road=[[Pulteney Street]] |notes= }} {{SAint |type= |km=.75 |road=[[Frome Street]] / Regent Street North |notes= }} {{SAint |type= |km=1.1 |road=[[Hutt Street]] |notes= }} {{SAint |type= |km=1.4 |road=[[East Terrace]] |notes= }} {{Jctbtm}}
==See also== {{portal-inline|Australian Roads}}
==References== {{reflist}}
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[[Category:Streets in Adelaide]]
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