The Music Hall Theatre Restaurant was a popular entertainment venue located in the Sydney suburb of Neutral Bay, which operated from 1961 to 1980.

The theatre also contained "The Handle Bar," upstairs in the former dress circle, where weekday luncheons were regularly held, and where patrons could enjoy a relaxed drink and "singalong" after the evening performances.

Audience participation was a major feature, and the original poster for its debut production encouraged patrons to: "Hiss the villain, Weep with the Heroine and All join in the choruses.

Subsequent productions included The Face at the Window, Lady Audley's Secret (another revived Victorian melodrama) and How the West was Lost, which was written by Barry Creyton.

On Australia Day (26 January) that year, Ms Hathaway was fatally mauled by a shark while wading in shallow water at Sugarloaf Bay in Sydney's Middle Harbour.