95 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Theater.

  1. Alfred Drake papers, 1892-2004

    approximately 2,700 items. 42 containers. 19.9 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Alfred Drake was an American actor, singer, director, and author. The collection primarily documents Drake's theatrical career, and includes scripts, music scores, photographs, programs, writings, production materials, correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, and other miscellaneous materials.

  2. Muriel Manings and William Korff papers, 1914-2007

    1,088 items . 6 containers. 2.5 linear feet. 50 digital files (71.19 MB). -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Performer and teacher Muriel Manings and her husband William Korff, a performer, dance historian, and writer, compiled a substantial collection of materials that highlight activities of the New Dance Group, with particular emphasis on the dance trio of members William Bales, Jane Dudley, and Sophie Maslow. Manings's acumen as a teacher of modern dance earned her two engagements to teach in Cuba, both of which are documented in personal journals. Her leadership with the American Dance Guild and the ADG-sponsored gala celebrating the New Dance Group is also well documented in this collection.

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  3. Harold Rome papers, 1936-1967

    approximately 850 items. 16 containers. 7.25 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Harold Rome (1908-1993) was an American composer and lyricist best known for his work in musical theater. Rome first made his mark by writing and composing musical revues, most notably his 1937 hit debut Pins and Needles. He later established himself as a writer of shows that were considered to be socially conscious for the time, including I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1962) and The Zulu and the Zayda (1965). The collection contains piano-vocal scores, music and lyric sketches, scripts, correspondence, and miscellaneous items related to his most well-known shows and projects, especially Fanny, Pins and Needles, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, and Sing Out the News.

  4. Houston L. Maples family collection on Russian theatre, opera, and ballet, 1940-2004

    approximately 180 items. 4 containers. 2 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Houston L. Maples was a United States naval attaché to Moscow. His son, Houston Maples Jr., worked in the State Department's Moscow Office of Information and Culture. The collection includes photographs, programs, and writings pertaining to dance and opera, particularly in the immediate post-World War II period in the Soviet Union. The Bolshoi Theatre and Kirov Ballet (now known as Mariinsky Ballet) are well-represented.

  5. Federal Theatre Project collection, 1932-1943

    approximately 525,000 items. 1,554 containers. 200 mapcase folders. 584.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers, re-employ them on public relief, and to bring theater to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, play and radio scripts, reports, research studies, manuals, publications, bulletins, forms, lists, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, charts, costume and set designs, blue-prints, posters, addressograph plates, photographs, negatives, slides, playbills, and other records documenting the activities of the Federal Theatre Project and its impact on all aspects of the theater. Some materials in this collection contain offensive or demeaning language.

  6. Theater programs, playbills and miscellany from the Rouben Mamoulian Collection, 1942-1982

    4 containers. Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 30 feet. Approximate number of items: 340. -- Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Collection of theater, film and concert programs for performances in New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, London, England and other locations, many annotated by Armenian American film and theater director Rouben Mamoulian. Arranged alphabetically by title in three separate groupings: Programs and Playbills, Miscellany and Movie Miscellany.

  7. John Davis Batchelder ephemera and special collections, 2200 BCE-1948

    480 items. 14 containers. -- Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Theater programs, playbills, newspapers, incunabula leaves, prints, official documents, bookplates, inaugural souvenirs, and other papers of prominent historical figures in the arts and politics primarily in the US, but also Europe. Persons represented in the collection include Albrecht Durer, Peter Schoeffer, Wynkyn de Worde, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Edwin Booth, and several US Presidents.

  8. Roger L. Stevens papers, 1863-2002

    approximately 192,000 items. 436 containers. 30 mapcase folders. 234 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Roger Lacey Stevens (1910-1998) was an American theatrical producer and financial backer with more than 200 shows to his credit; an arts administrator who served as the founding chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the first chair of both the National Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts; and founder, executive officer, and shareholder of numerous commercial and residential real estate businesses that owned iconic buildings including the Empire State Building and Belleview Biltmore Hotel and pioneered the development of several shopping malls. The collection, which documents all aspects of Stevens's life and career, contains awards and certificates; clippings; correspondence; daily calendars, schedules and telephone logs; financial records; invitations; photographs; realia; scrapbooks; and speeches and writings. Materials specific to his arts administration and theatrical careers include actor and crew contracts; audition and casting materials; box office reports, posters, production stills, programs, and publicity material; rehearsal schedules; reviews; and scripts. Materials specific to his real estate work include construction plans, purchase contracts and agreements, incorporation and dissolution papers, and leases.

  9. Paul F. Stiga collection of stage and costume design, 1821-2017

    approximately 4,000 items. 236 boxes. 134.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Paul Freeman Stiga (1936-2019) was a collector of set and costume designs created for stage productions, television, and film. The Paul F. Stiga Collection of Stage and Costume Design consists of approximately 2,600 design renderings that date between 1821 and 2017 and document more than 1,300 ballets, motion pictures, plays, operas, operettas, revues, and television shows. These renderings encompass the work of more than 900 designers, including Georg II, Duke of Sachsen-Meiningen, Robert Edmond Jones, Jo Mielziner, Léon Bakst, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff, and Edith Head. Stiga maintained informational files on numerous designers that include biographical materials, clippings, and exhibition catalogs. The collection also contains 85 caricatures by Sam Norkin and approximately 50 prints and posters.

  10. Howard E. Reinheimer papers, 1924-1973

    approximately 2,800 items. 8 containers. 4 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Howard Reinheimer (1899–1970) was a lawyer specializing in copyright law who represented prominent playwrights, composers, directors, and producers. These papers consist of Reinheimer’s business files, which focus on legal issues related to theatrical works that his clients wrote or produced. A substantial amount of correspondence documents his associations with Moss Hart, George Kaufman, Alan J. Lerner, Frederick Loewe, and others whom he represented. Additional materials include contracts and rights agreements, as well as a small number of scripts, financial statements, and clippings. This collection is the small percentage known to exist of what we know was once an extensive archive.