the identity of the buyer could not be revealed at that stage, they intended to "occupy it and reinvigorate it as a theatre". The 2018 sale fell through; however, in early 2020, it was sold to a local business consortium, with hospitality figure Joe McGuinness and the Yours and Owls production group lodging the relevant applications to reopen the theatre as a live performance venue. The proposal sought to restore the theatre while removing the auditorium seating in favour of standing areas, adapting the foyer milk bars into alcoholic bars, and adding a bar at the back of the auditorium, citing the example of the Enmore Theatre in Sydney. Description The Regent facade is of robust geometrical composition of Functionalist and Art Deco Forms. The theatre auditorium is "beautifully simple" (Robert Irving) with a criss-cross ceiling pattern of plaster moulding featuring hundreds of star-lights. The ceiling curves and at the sides disappears into a plaster trough which was itself originally designed to house concealed lighting, The auditorium ceiling and walls are painted gray-green in strong contrast to the orange-red house curtain. The proscenium is surrounded by a plain plaster trough in which concealed lighting has now been disconnected. On each side of the auditorium a plaster moulding depicts a mythological scene beneath the gilt rays of a star or sun in the form of a round opalescent glass covering for an electric light which never seems to have been lit. The view from the stage reveals clusters of lights under the circle balcony, Dolby stereo speakers at the rear of the lower circle and on sidewalls, and the projection room at the rear of the circle. The projection box holds an "impressive" (Robert Parkinson) array of equipment - two Westrex machines (no longer in use) and two Philips Todd-AO DP-70 projectors manufactured in Eindhoven, Holland with the manufacturing serial numbers 2377 and 2382. In this respect they are similar to the projectors that Hoyts Theatres installed in their Sydney Mayfair and Paris Theatres. (Greg Beasley) Other equipment includes a slide projector and the "usual accoutrements of such a nerve centre." (Robert Parkinson) The Keira Street entrance to the Regent is through five double glass doors that lead into a 120-foot terrazzo floored vestibule. On the left of the vestibule are display cases and on the right a long candy bar, ticket office and managerial suite. The brilliant multi-coloured glazing of