Abstract The American Play Company / Century Play Company was a conglomerate publishing house that represented many of the most prominent American playwrights and dramatists of the 20th century. The scripts and business papers in the collection document numerous aspects of American theater production history, including author representation, show production, publishing, and licensing for television, film, radio, and stock productions. The script library notably includes five working copies of ...

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Author and dramatist. Chiefly literary manuscripts, including notebooks, journals, drafts, and manuscripts of prose fiction, dramas and screenplays, and other writings.

Abstract William Henry Chippendale (1801-1888) was an English actor and theater manager who had an extensive career in the United States and Great Britain. This collection is comprised of 16 anthologies of working scripts for plays and operettas written by English playwrights, including William Bayle Bernard, John Baldwin Buckstone, Joseph Stirling Coyne, James Robinson Planché, and Edward Stirling. Chippendale used the materials during his career as an actor between 1834 and 1851, and likely while...

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Actor, producer, and director Hume Cronyn and stage and film actor Jessica Tandy. Family papers, correspondence, annual file, productions and projects file, and scrapbooks documenting Cronyn and Tandy's stage, screen, and television performances and Cronyn's activities as a director, producer, and writer.

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Actress. Correspondence; biographical and genealogical material; annotated scripts and texts of plays, poetry, and readings; newspaper clippings; reviews; and souvenir programs relating chiefly to Cushman's career in the theater.

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Novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer. Correspondence; drafts; theater, radio, film and television project papers and proposals; legal files; playbills and printed ephemera; reviews; research files; and miscellaneous papers relating primarily to Denker's writing career.

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Author, poet, and playwright. Poems, plays, short stories, correspondence, notebooks, and miscellaneous material.

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The papers consist of approximately 2,800 original playbills, plus extensive research materials and data sheets covering the historical breadth of American musical theatre.

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Author, drama critic, and naturalist. Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other papers reflecting Wood's career as a professor of English at Columbia University and scholarship in the fields of conservation, society, and drama and theater.

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Actress, theatrical director and producer, author, and translator. Correspondence, diaries, family papers, speeches and writings, translations, production scripts, programs and playbills, press clippings, appointment books, biographical material, awards, and other papers documenting Le Gallienne's theatrical career.

Abstract Norman Luboff was an American arranger, choir director, and publisher. The collection features Luboff's working music library of choral works and songs, spanning from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, that were performed by the Norman Luboff Choir in concert and on recordings. The collection also contains arrangements of Scandinavian folk music and a variety of materials documenting the performances and tours of the Norman Luboff Choir and the creation of Luboff's ...

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Journalist, playwright, magazine editor, United States representative from Connecticut, and United States ambassador to Italy. Family papers, correspondence, literary files, congressional and ambassadorial files, speech files, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Luce's personal and public life as a journalist, playwright, politician, member of Congress, ambassador, and government official.

Abstract Poet, playwright, government official, and Librarian of Congress. Papers include correspondence reflecting MacLeish's relations with friends, literary colleagues, and government associates; notebooks (1919-1940s) containing drafts of poetry and prose; manuscript drafts of plays and radio broadcasts, and speeches, including those written for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Edward R. Stettinius, and Harry S. Truman; and notes and manuscripts for classroom lectures on modern poetry given by MacLeish at...

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Poet and writer. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary drafts, legal documents, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, theatrical playbills, reports, printed matter, and family papers relating to Millay's life, family, and literary career.

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Worldwide movement dedicated to spiritual and ethical reawakening. Correspondence, subject files, financial records, play and film scripts, radio and television broadcasting files, press releases, clippings, print and near-print material, scrapbooks, and other records documenting the policies, organization, programs, activities, and membership of Moral Re-armament. Includes papers of the organization's founder, Frank Buchman, and members Ray Foote Purdy and Kenaston Twitchell.

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Actor, director, theatrical producer, and crossword puzzle maker. Correspondence, contracts, scripts, playbills and programs, financial records, speeches, writings, drafts of crossword puzzles, and printed matter documenting Moss's career primarily as a stage actor, producer, and director.

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The Performing Arts Response to COVID-19 Collection is a curated collection that amasses artistic works and accompanying primary source materials documenting the performing arts creative response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The collection includes scores, scripts, audio and video files, promotional materials, design materials, correspondence, safety protocols, and oral histories.

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Harold Prince was a theater producer and director. The papers chiefly consist of personal correspondence and Prince’s annotated copies of the scripts for the shows he directed.

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Playwright and theatrical director. Articles, drafts of produced and unproduced plays, printed matter, and programs relating to Shiomi's career between 1982 and 2013. Topics include Asian adoptees, Asian American identity, Asian American social life and customs, Asian American theater, Asian folktales, families, friendship, Japanese incarceration in Canada and the United States during World War II, Japantown in Vancouver, racism, and taiko drumming.

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Prolific director and producer of television, theatrical, and motion picture dramas, comedies, and musicals. The George and Mildred Schaefer collection consists of scripts, photographs, and memorabilia from George Schaefer's career, including a complete set of teleplays from Schaefer's many productions for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television program.

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Actor, director, and acting teacher. Correspondence, memoranda, production files, lectures, writings, scripts, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating to Strasberg's theatrical and film career, Method acting, the Actors Studio, and theater history.

Abstract The Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers consist of both personal and professional papers of composer and music publisher Harry Von Tilzer (1872-1946) and his brother, H. Harold Gumm (1881 or 82-1973), who was a lawyer, agent, and producer in the entertainment business. After having served as attorney for the Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. (HVTMPC) for several decades, Harold Gumm served as executor of Harry Von Tilzer's estate and took over the company when Von Tilzer died in...