Theater -- Production and direction
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on the production and direction of theatrical performances. Works on written or printed descriptions or directions in a play are entered under Stage directions.
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Sandi Carroll Papers Relating to Early Productions of August Wilson's Seven Guitars
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 188
Overview:
The papers consist of scripts, notes, rehearsal schedules, venue descriptions and other materials that document the productions of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and on Broadway in New York City, in 1995-1996. The material also provides a record of how characters and dialogue in the play were changed and developed during these productions. Also included are several corrected proofs of the script as it was being prepared for...
Dates:
1995-1996
Edward Gordon Craig collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 433
Scope and Contents:
This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Edward Gordon Craig, acquired by the library from a variety of sources. Series I, Hamill and Barker Purchase (1912-1958), contains letters from a variety of correspondents to Craig's friend Ewald Junge, who also collected Craig...
Dates:
1905-1963
Mina Kirstein Curtiss papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 14
Overview:
The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence.
Dates:
1917-1966 (inclusive)
Archibald MacLeish collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 38
Overview:
The collection contains writings, correspondence, a handful of personal papers, and a songbook. The bulk of the material consists of drafts of such works as Songs for Eve (1954), The Wild Old Wicked Men & Other Poems (1968), The American Bell (1962), Herakles (1967), J. B. , and A Continuing Journey (1968).
Dates:
1914-1982 (inclusive)
Frank Alonzo McMullan papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1470
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, topical files, lecture notes, production files and prompt books, typescripts and manuscripts, photographs, costume and set drawings, and printed material documenting Frank McMullan's career in educational and professional theatre.
Dates:
1939-1976
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Frank Alonzo McMullan papers
Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 58
Overview:
The Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection Addition consists of letters, manuscripts, printed material, and photographs documenting the life and career of Nathan's life and achievement in the theater, as an author, as a journalist, and as a pageant producer. Included in Series I are drafts of a children's book about Major John Andre, drafts of a novel, "What is a Man Profited," printed copies f newspaper columns by Nathan, motion picture scenarios programs for the Cellar Players...
Dates:
1834-1989
Adele Gutman Nathan theatrical collection : addition
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 82
Overview:
The Adele Gutman Nathan Theatrical Collection Addition consists of letters, manuscripts, printed material, and photographs documenting Nathan's life and achievements in the theater, as an author, as a journalist, and as a pageant producer. Included are drafts of children's books about the lives of Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln, programs for the Cellar Players and the Little Lyric Theatre, production notes for a centennial celebration for Rochester, New York, and radio...
Dates:
1901-1986
Donald Oenslager collection of Adolphe Appia
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 81
Overview:
The papers contian correspondence, manuscripts, articles, and miscellaneous papers, documenting the life and career of Adolphe Appia. The papers were collected by Donald Oenslager, professor at the Yale School of Drama.
Dates:
1892-1971, bulk 1920-1926
Donald Oenslager collection of Edward Gordon Craig
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 424
Overview:
Collection contains materials collected by Donald Oenslager documenting the life and career of Edward Gordon Craig, including correspondence, writings, artwork and materials related to theater design, photographs and subject files. Correspondence includes letters between Craig, Isadora Duncan and Paris Singer, letters between Oenslager and various individuals concerning his collection and interest in Craig, and third party letters. Writings include holographs, typescripts, clippings and reviews...
Dates:
1881-1975
Irene Sharaff papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1201
Scope and Contents:
The Irene Sharaff Papers, which span from 1934 to 2014, contain artwork, research notes, clippings, and other documentation related to her life and work. Includes drawings and sketches related to Sharaff's most famous work as a costume designer including An American in Paris, The King and I, West Side Story, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.Files from Mai-Mai Sze, Sharaff’s...
Dates:
1934-2014
Walther Volbach Collection on Adolphe Appia
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1014
Scope and Contents:
The collection includes correspondence, writings, newspaper and journal articles, photographs, and publications relating to Walther Volbach's research and writings on Adolphe Appia. Included are over sixty typescript essays, articles, and scenarios by Adolphe Appia, many bearing the stamp of the Fondation Adolphe Appia, Geneve. A typescript of Volbach's translation of many of these writings which was published as Adolphe Appia: Essays, Articles, and Scenarios in...
Dates:
1890-1969
Yale School of Drama Master of Fine Arts Theses
Collection
Call Number: DRA 28
Overview:
This collection contains thesis projects submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama.
Dates:
1942-2015