Theater programs
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
A Midsummer Night's Dream : program for the Globe Theatre production , 1890 January 15
An F.R. Benson production. Includes a cast listing, a list of scenes and music, and an advertisement for other plays.
Becket : program for the Royal Lyceum Theatre production, 1893 July
Includes cast listing; a synopsis of scenery designed by W. Telbin, J. Harker, and Hawes Craven; and a list of other productions in July.
Charles I : program for the Royal Lyceum Theatre production, 1893 June 28
Includes advertisements for upcoming productions, including The Lyon's Mail, The Merchant of Venice, Olivia, Much Ado About Nothing, Becket, King Henry VIII, Nance Oldfield and The Bells.
Jack Randall Crawford Modern Drama Collection
Photographic prints and clippings relating to English and American Drama as collected by Jack Randall Crawford, the staff of the Drama Library, and others.
Crawford Theater collection
The collection consists of playbills and programs, photographs in a variety of formats, engravings, posters, clippings, and other printed material which document the performing arts in the United States and throughout the world from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Material relating to dramatic performance forms the nucleus of the collection, but dance, opera, motion picture, circus, radio, and television performances are also represented.
Cymbeline : program for the Royal Lyceum Theatre production, 1896 December 9
Includes cast listing, as well as advertisements for The Bells, The King and the Miller, and Richard III.
Jonathan Dodd collection of Edward Albee, Stephen Sondheim, and Tennessee Williams
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.
Max Ewing collection
Faust : program for the Royal Lyceum Theatre production, 1886 January 23
Includes a cast listing and a synopsis of the scenery.
Find the Woman : insert for the London Coliseum production, 1914 May
Includes a synopsis of the first two acts of the play.
Find the Woman : program for the London Coliseum production, 1914 May 4
Includes 10 acts of various types (vaudeville, ballet, short plays, etc.) culminating in Arthur Bourchier and Garrick Theatre Company's presentation of the third act of Charles Klein's Find the Woman.
Witold Gombrowicz archive
John Guare papers
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.
Henry IV : program for the Theatre Royal Haymarket production, 1896 July 2
Program for Part I, produced by Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who also played Sir John Falstaff. Directed by Tree and Louis Calvert. Includes advertisements.
Edgar Hockley collection
This collection comprises costume and set design drawings by Edgar Hockley depicting late-Victorian London stage productions. Also present are theatre programs and clippings from the same period.
Leland Starnes, director of the Yale Dramatic Association, records
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.
Elizabeth Hacker Valentine Louden papers
The Elizabeth Hacker Valentine Louden Papers consist of diaries, photographs, a scrapbook, correspondence, clippings, playbills, a portrait painting of Louden, and other printed material, regarding the personal and professional life of American actress Elizabeth Hacker Valentine Louden.
Marketing Office, Yale School of Drama, records
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.
Benjamin Mordecai papers
Multiple Productions : program for the Palace Theatre of London of Varieties, 1908 June 27
Included in the program are performances by American vaudeville star Walter C. Kelly. The program also mentions Florence Yaymen, a "Coon Caricaturist." Advertisements also included.