Performing Arts

Scope and Contents Monthly arts newsletter.

Content Description Playbills and performing arts programs collected by Valerie and Kenneth S. Lynn. Primarily New York and Washington, D.C., especially Kennedy Center.

Scope and Contents note Correspondence, scripts, articles, photographs, and other material relating to the career of Donn B. Murphy as teacher and director of dramatic theater at Georgetown University, primarily, with some material relating to work as director of the National Theater, Washington, D.C.

Scope and Contents note The Leonard Reed Collection consists of 11 typescripts of various plays and musicals, a book of play synopses, and related materials. These items are contained in 12 folders and arranged in two boxes.The Collection is largely a group of mimeograph typescripts which were in the possession of Joseph Kaye (1898 - 1975). Kaye, a native of the Ukraine and educated in Glasgow, Scotland, was the New York correspondent for The Kansas City Star for more than forty years beginning in the...

Scope and Contents Two scrapbooks documenting Glee Club activities and containing photographs, concert programs, tickets, flyers, and clippings. Included are: photographs of concerts in Gaston Hall; the program from a concert in McDonough Gym by the National Symphony Orchestra assisted by the Glee Club, November 14, 1952; a clipping announcing the appointment of Vincent Bellwoar, S.J., as Club moderator, ca. 1954; the program from a concert held to benefit the crew team, May 23, 1963; and photographs of Glee...

Scope and Contents Three issues.Spring 1993 issue includes description of aims of TOGA, article on Black Theatre Ensemble (with photograph of BTE Executive Producer Sylvia Brooks), and article by Donn Murphy re Mask and Bauble lighting work at the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.Winter 1994 issue includes photograph of John Mirvish and article about Nomadic Theatre.Spring 1995 issues includes profiles of Joe Banno and Kathryn Farley and timeline of...