LIT/PL. Playwriting

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This collection contains playbills, scores, and books by playwright and writer Lillian Hellman.

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The Experimental Theatre Collection, 1951, consists of the program from the inaugural season of the New York City Living Theatre, which contains the first published poetry by John Cage.

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The Anne Sexton Mercy Street Collection, 1969, consists of a program from The American Place Theatre's production of the play Mercy Street, by poet Anne Sexton, 1928-1974.

Scope and Contents This collection contains 1.67 linear feet of material contained in 3 ½ Hollinger boxes and 1 flat box and includes photographs, letters, telegrams, scripts, playbills, legal documents, and newspaper clippings that relate to the collaborative theatrical efforts of producer Joseph Hyman and playwright Moss Hart and his brother Bernard Hart. The collection covers the years 1918-1977.The majority of the collection highlights the long standing and successful professional and personal...

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The John Lark Taylor Papers contain correspondence, plays and original music by Taylor, photographs, promptbooks, playbills, radio scripts, and other stage and radio memorabilia spanning 1879 to 1944.

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This collection contains a series of pamphlets and playbills for various plays in Nashville and elsewhere dating from 1925-1968.

Scope and Contents The materials in the Collection are arranged, whenever the date was known, in chronological order by year and in alphabetical order. Some abbreviated notation gives the city for places other than those coded. Some notable materials in the Collection are programs from vocal and instrumental concerts and performances at Theatre Vendome as well as Little Theatre productions in Nashville. Of particular interest to the Fugitive/Agrarian Collection are two programs from two plays by...

Scope and Content The William Inge Collection consists of 17 folders is contained in one archival box (.42 linear feet.) There are three series. The Independence Collection series contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and one item of correspondence related to the addition of the Collection to Independence Community College and its Dedication even which took place October 25, 1981. The News Clippings series includes selections from...

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This .21 linear feet collection contains a stock certificate, three pamphlets, and 18 playbills/program. The collection is arranged by subject, then by date.

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This collection contains material related to theatre, plays, George Bernard Shaw, and Donald Davidson and was donated by Joseph E. Wright.