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Jack Randall Crawford Modern Drama Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 10
Abstract:

Photographic prints and clippings relating to English and American Drama as collected by Jack Randall Crawford, the staff of the Drama Library, and others.

Dates: 1850-1979

Jonathan Dodd collection of Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim, and Tennessee Williams

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1411
Abstract:

The collection contains drafts and print editions of scripts, scores, and other writings by American playwrights Edward Albee and Tennessee Williams, and musical theater writer and composer Stephen Sondheim. Also included is correspondence, contracts, and other materials related to the publication of Sondheim’s and Williams’s works; photographs; printed materials, such as playbills, souvenir programs, periodicals, and clippings; and notes and inventories related to the collection.

Dates: 1928-2015, (bulk 1954-2015)

John Guare papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 411
Abstract:

The John Guare Papers document the work and life of the playwright and educator John Guare. The papers consist of production files, correspondence, writings, writings of others, subject files, personal effects, personal papers, photographs, printed material, and computer and audiovisual media. The bulk of the material spans the years 1962–2010.

Dates: 1906-2015

Leland Starnes, director of the Yale Dramatic Association, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 958
Abstract:

The records consist primarily of the production files maintained by Leland Starnes as director of the Yale Dramatic Association (Yale Dramat). Included are prompt scripts, notes, photographs, cast lists, rehearsal schedules, sheet music, budgets, ground plans, stage designs (sketches), programs, posters, sound recordings, and newsclippings. Also included are a complete set of meeting minutes of the Yale Dramatic Association from 1960 to 1968 and a small amount of correspondence.

Dates: 1950s-1968

Marketing Office, Yale School of Drama, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 933
Abstract:

The records consist of marketing and publicity files, including press releases, clippings, photographs, posters, programs and newsletters documenting productions of the Yale School of Drama and the Yale Repertory Theatre.

Dates: 1973-2008

New Productions, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 77
Abstract:

The records consist of news releases, playbills, and a scrapbook documenting New Productions at Yale.

Dates: 1955

Annie Schletter papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 547
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, printed ephemera, and photographs related to Annie Schletter and her family. Correspondence consists of letters to Annie Schletter, Pauline Schletter, Percy Schletter, and others, including Adrian Boult and Rosetta Phillips. Letters to Annie Schletter, many brief notes, largely relate to theater in London. Her correspondents include Margot Asquith, Adrian Boult, Ernest Coquelin, F. Paolo Tosti, Oscar Wilde, and Charles Wyndham. Correspondence also includes two...
Dates: 1757-1937

George Sklar and Miriam Blecher papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 1446
Abstract:

The collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, personal papers, and other papers by or relating to George Sklar and Miriam Blecher.

Dates: 1898-2001

Souvenir performance program collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 260
Abstract:

The collection consists of souvenir performance programs, the majority of which document anniversary or other special performances of individual actors, theatrical productions, theatres, and theatrical production companies in the United States and Great Britain.

Dates: 1840-1950

Todd-Bingham memorabilia collection

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Call Number: MS 496F
Abstract: The collection consists of theater, concert, art exhibition and circus programs; pamphlets; periodicals; books; travel literature; dance cards; maps; sheet music; calling cards; engravings of paintings; advertising literature; and postcards assembled from the David Peck Todd, Mabel Loomis Todd, Loomis-Wilder Family, and Millicent Todd Bingham Papers in the Yale University Library. Taken together these items document three generations of the life of a cultivated family in the 19th and 20th...
Dates: 1832-1962

Western Theater Souvenir Program Collection

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3071
Scope and Contents: The collection consists of souvenir theater programs for plays set in the trans-Mississippi West, dating from 1921 to 1994. Productions represented include dramas, comedies, and musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Bus Stop (1955), Flower Drum Song (1958), Show Boat (1948), and Zoot Suit (1979). The majority of the programs are from Broadway...
Dates: 1922-1994

Yale Cabaret Scripts and Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 34
Abstract:

This collection contains scripts and ephemera from the Yale Cabaret.

Dates: 1974-2009

Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale School of Drama Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 37
Abstract:

This collection contains ephemera pertaining to Yale Repertory Theatre, Yale School of Drama, and other undergraduate theater organizations at Yale University.

Dates: 1925-2013

Yale Summer Cabaret Scripts and Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 35
Abstract:

This collection contains scripts and ephemera from the Yale Summer Cabaret (formerly known as the Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts).

Dates: 1974-2016